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Psalm 102

¹Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come unto thee.
²Hide not thy face from me in the day when I am in trouble; incline thine ear unto me: in the day when I call answer me speedily.
³For my days are consumed like smoke, and my bones are burned as an hearth.
⁴My heart is smitten, and withered like grass; so that I forget to eat my bread.
⁵By reason of the voice of my groaning my bones cleave to my skin.
⁶I am like a pelican of the wilderness: I am like an owl of the desert.
⁷I watch, and am as a sparrow alone upon the house top.
⁸Mine enemies reproach me all the day; and they that are mad against me are sworn against me.
⁹For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mingled my drink with weeping.
¹⁰Because of thine indignation and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and cast me down.
¹¹My days are like a shadow that declineth; and I am withered like grass.
¹²But thou, O Lord, shall endure for ever; and thy remembrance unto all generations.
¹³Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Zion: for the time to favour her, yea, the set time, is come.
¹⁴For thy servants take pleasure in her stones, and favour the dust thereof.
¹⁵So the heathen shall fear the name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth thy glory.
¹⁶When the Lord shall build up Zion, he shall appear in his glory.
¹⁷He will regard the prayer of the destitute, and not despise their prayer.
¹⁸This shall be written for the generation to come: and the people which shall be created shall praise the Lord.
¹⁹For he hath looked down from the height of his sanctuary; from heaven did the Lord behold the earth;
²⁰To hear the groaning of the prisoner; to loose those that are appointed to death;
²¹To declare the name of the Lord in Zion, and his praise in Jerusalem;
²²When the people are gathered together, and the kingdoms, to serve the Lord.
²³He weakened my strength in the way; he shortened my days.
²⁴I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
²⁵Of old hast thou laid the foundation of the earth: and the heavens are the work of thy hands.
²⁶They shall perish, but thou shalt endure: yea, all of them shall wax old like a garment; as a vesture shalt thou change them, and they shall be changed:
²⁷But thou art the same, and thy years shall have no end.
²⁸The children of thy servants shall continue, and their seed shall be established before thee.

Psalm 130

¹Out of the depths have I cried unto thee, O Lord.
²Lord, hear my voice: let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my supplications.
³If thou, Lord, shouldest mark iniquities, O Lord, who shall stand?
⁴But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayest be feared.
⁵I wait for the Lord, my soul doth wait, and in his word do I hope.
⁶My soul waiteth for the Lord more than they that watch for the morning: I say, more than they that watch for the morning.
⁷Let Israel hope in the Lord: for with the Lord there is mercy, and with him is plenteous redemption.
⁸And he shall redeem Israel from all his iniquities.

3And the word of the Lord came unto Jonah the second time, saying,
²Arise, go unto Nineveh, that great city, and preach unto it the preaching that I bid thee.
³So Jonah arose, and went unto Nineveh, according to the word of the Lord. Now Nineveh was an exceeding great city of three days’ journey.
⁴And Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried, and said, Yet forty days, and Nineveh shall be overthrown.
⁵So the people of Nineveh believed God, and proclaimed a fast, and put on sackcloth, from the greatest of them even to the least of them.
⁶For word came unto the king of Nineveh, and he arose from his throne, and he laid his robe from him, and covered him with sackcloth, and sat in ashes.
⁷And he caused it to be proclaimed and published through Nineveh by the decree of the king and his nobles, saying, Let neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste any thing: let them not feed, nor drink water:
⁸But let man and beast be covered with sackcloth, and cry mightily unto God: yea, let them turn every one from his evil way, and from the violence that is in their hands.
⁹Who can tell if God will turn and repent, and turn away from his fierce anger, that we perish not?
¹⁰And God saw their works, that they turned from their evil way; and God repented of the evil, that he had said that he would do unto them; and he did it not.

4But it displeased Jonah exceedingly, and he was very angry.
²And he prayed unto the Lord, and said, I pray thee, O Lord, was not this my saying, when I was yet in my country? Therefore I fled before unto Tarshish: for I knew that thou art a gracious God, and merciful, slow to anger, and of great kindness, and repentest thee of the evil.
³Therefore now, O Lord, take, I beseech thee, my life from me; for it is better for me to die than to live.
⁴Then said the Lord, Doest thou well to be angry?
⁵So Jonah went out of the city, and sat on the east side of the city, and there made him a booth, and sat under it in the shadow, till he might see what would become of the city.
⁶And the Lord God prepared a gourd, and made it to come up over Jonah, that it might be a shadow over his head, to deliver him from his grief. So Jonah was exceeding glad of the gourd.
⁷But God prepared a worm when the morning rose the next day, and it smote the gourd that it withered.
⁸And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live.
⁹And God said to Jonah, Doest thou well to be angry for the gourd? And he said, I do well to be angry, even unto death.
¹⁰Then said the Lord, Thou hast had pity on the gourd, for the which thou hast not laboured, neither madest it grow; which came up in a night, and perished in a night:
¹¹And should not I spare Nineveh, that great city, wherein are more than sixscore thousand persons that cannot discern between their right hand and their left hand; and also much cattle?

¹⁰Likewise, I say unto you, there is joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner that repenteth.
¹¹And he said, A certain man had two sons:
¹²And the younger of them said to his father, Father, give me the portion of goods that falleth to me. And he divided unto them his living.
¹³And not many days after the younger son gathered all together, and took his journey into a far country, and there wasted his substance with riotous living.
¹⁴And when he had spent all, there arose a mighty famine in that land; and he began to be in want.
¹⁵And he went and joined himself to a citizen of that country; and he sent him into his fields to feed swine.
¹⁶And he would fain have filled his belly with the husks that the swine did eat: and no man gave unto him.
¹⁷And when he came to himself, he said, How many hired servants of my father’s have bread enough and to spare, and I perish with hunger!
¹⁸I will arise and go to my father, and will say unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and before thee,
¹⁹And am no more worthy to be called thy son: make me as one of thy hired servants.
²⁰And he arose, and came to his father. But when he was yet a great way off, his father saw him, and had compassion, and ran, and fell on his neck, and kissed him.
²¹And the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven, and in thy sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son.
²²But the father said to his servants, Bring forth the best robe, and put it on him; and put a ring on his hand, and shoes on his feet:
²³And bring hither the fatted calf, and kill it; and let us eat, and be merry:
²⁴For this my son was dead, and is alive again; he was lost, and is found. And they began to be merry.
²⁵Now his elder son was in the field: and as he came and drew nigh to the house, he heard musick and dancing.
²⁶And he called one of the servants, and asked what these things meant.
²⁷And he said unto him, Thy brother is come; and thy father hath killed the fatted calf, because he hath received him safe and sound.
²⁸And he was angry, and would not go in: therefore came his father out, and intreated him.
²⁹And he answering said to his father, Lo, these many years do I serve thee, neither transgressed I at any time thy commandment: and yet thou never gavest me a kid, that I might make merry with my friends:
³⁰But as soon as this thy son was come, which hath devoured thy living with harlots, thou hast killed for him the fatted calf.
³¹And he said unto him, Son, thou art ever with me, and all that I have is thine.
³²It was meet that we should make merry, and be glad: for this thy brother was dead, and is alive again; and was lost, and is found.