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Psalm 77

¹I cried unto God with my voice, even unto God with my voice; and he gave ear unto me.
²In the day of my trouble I sought the Lord: my sore ran in the night, and ceased not: my soul refused to be comforted.
³I remembered God, and was troubled: I complained, and my spirit was overwhelmed. Selah.
⁴Thou holdest mine eyes waking: I am so troubled that I cannot speak.
⁵I have considered the days of old, the years of ancient times.
⁶I call to remembrance my song in the night: I commune with mine own heart: and my spirit made diligent search.
⁷Will the Lord cast off for ever? and will he be favourable no more?
⁸Is his mercy clean gone for ever? doth his promise fail for evermore?
⁹Hath God forgotten to be gracious? hath he in anger shut up his tender mercies? Selah.
¹⁰And I said, This is my infirmity: but I will remember the years of the right hand of the most High.
¹¹I will remember the works of the Lord: surely I will remember thy wonders of old.
¹²I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings.
¹³Thy way, O God, is in the sanctuary: who is so great a God as our God?
¹⁴Thou art the God that doest wonders: thou hast declared thy strength among the people.
¹⁵Thou hast with thine arm redeemed thy people, the sons of Jacob and Joseph. Selah.
¹⁶The waters saw thee, O God, the waters saw thee; they were afraid: the depths also were troubled.
¹⁷The clouds poured out water: the skies sent out a sound: thine arrows also went abroad.
¹⁸The voice of thy thunder was in the heaven: the lightnings lightened the world: the earth trembled and shook.
¹⁹Thy way is in the sea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.
²⁰Thou leddest thy people like a flock by the hand of Moses and Aaron.

37The hand of the Lord was upon me, and carried me out in the spirit of the Lord, and set me down in the midst of the valley which was full of bones,
²And caused me to pass by them round about: and, behold, there were very many in the open valley; and, lo, they were very dry.
³And he said unto me, Son of man, can these bones live? And I answered, O Lord God, thou knowest.
⁴Again he said unto me, Prophesy upon these bones, and say unto them, O ye dry bones, hear the word of the Lord.
⁵Thus saith the Lord God unto these bones; Behold, I will cause breath to enter into you, and ye shall live:
⁶And I will lay sinews upon you, and will bring up flesh upon you, and cover you with skin, and put breath in you, and ye shall live; and ye shall know that I am the Lord.
⁷So I prophesied as I was commanded: and as I prophesied, there was a noise, and behold a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to his bone.
⁸And when I beheld, lo, the sinews and the flesh came up upon them, and the skin covered them above: but there was no breath in them.
⁹Then said he unto me, Prophesy unto the wind, prophesy, son of man, and say to the wind, Thus saith the Lord God; Come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon these slain, that they may live.
¹⁰So I prophesied as he commanded me, and the breath came into them, and they lived, and stood up upon their feet, an exceeding great army.
¹¹Then he said unto me, Son of man, these bones are the whole house of Israel: behold, they say, Our bones are dried, and our hope is lost: we are cut off for our parts.
¹²Therefore prophesy and say unto them, Thus saith the Lord God; Behold, O my people, I will open your graves, and cause you to come up out of your graves, and bring you into the land of Israel.
¹³And ye shall know that I am the Lord, when I have opened your graves, O my people, and brought you up out of your graves,
¹⁴And shall put my spirit in you, and ye shall live, and I shall place you in your own land: then shall ye know that I the Lord have spoken it, and performed it, saith the Lord.

4Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
²Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
³Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.
⁴For every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving:
⁵For it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer.
⁶If thou put the brethren in remembrance of these things, thou shalt be a good minister of Jesus Christ, nourished up in the words of faith and of good doctrine, whereunto thou hast attained.
⁷But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
⁸For bodily exercise profiteth little: but godliness is profitable unto all things, having promise of the life that now is, and of that which is to come.
⁹This is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation.
¹⁰For therefore we both labour and suffer reproach, because we trust in the living God, who is the Saviour of all men, specially of those that believe.
¹¹These things command and teach.
¹²Let no man despise thy youth; but be thou an example of the believers, in word, in conversation, in charity, in spirit, in faith, in purity.
¹³Till I come, give attendance to reading, to exhortation, to doctrine.
¹⁴Neglect not the gift that is in thee, which was given thee by prophecy, with the laying on of the hands of the presbytery.
¹⁵Meditate upon these things; give thyself wholly to them; that thy profiting may appear to all.
¹⁶Take heed unto thyself, and unto the doctrine; continue in them: for in doing this thou shalt both save thyself, and them that hear thee.