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Psalm 13

¹How long wilt thou forget me, O Lord? for ever? how long wilt thou hide thy face from me?
²How long shall I take counsel in my soul, having sorrow in my heart daily? how long shall mine enemy be exalted over me?
³Consider and hear me, O Lord my God: lighten mine eyes, lest I sleep the sleep of death;
⁴Lest mine enemy say, I have prevailed against him; and those that trouble me rejoice when I am moved.
⁵But I have trusted in thy mercy; my heart shall rejoice in thy salvation.
⁶I will sing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me.

Psalm 14

¹The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works, there is none that doeth good.
²The Lord looked down from heaven upon the children of men, to see if there were any that did understand, and seek God.
³They are all gone aside, they are all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
⁴Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people as they eat bread, and call not upon the Lord.
⁵There were they in great fear: for God is in the generation of the righteous.
⁶Ye have shamed the counsel of the poor, because the Lord is his refuge.
⁷Oh that the salvation of Israel were come out of Zion! when the Lord bringeth back the captivity of his people, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall be glad.

4My son, defraud not the poor of his living, and make not the needy eyes to wait long.
²Make not an hungry soul sorrowful; neither provoke a man in his distress.
³Add not more trouble to an heart that is vexed; and defer not to give to him that is in need.
⁴Reject not the supplication of the afflicted; neither turn away thy face from a poor man.
⁵Turn not away thine eye from the needy, and give him none occasion to curse thee:
⁶For if he curse thee in the bitterness of his soul, his prayer shall be heard of him that made him.
⁷Get thyself the love of the congregation, and bow thy head to a great man.
⁸Let it not grieve thee to bow down thine ear to the poor, and give him a friendly answer with meekness.
⁹Deliver him that suffereth wrong from the hand of the oppressor; and be not fainthearted when thou sittest in judgment.
¹⁰Be as a father unto the fatherless, and instead of an husband unto their mother: so shalt thou be as the son of the most High, and he shall love thee more than thy mother doth.
¹¹Wisdom exalteth her children, and layeth hold of them that seek her.
¹²He that loveth her loveth life; and they that seek to her early shall be filled with joy.
¹³He that holdeth her fast shall inherit glory; and wheresoever she entereth, the Lord will bless.
¹⁴They that serve her shall minister to the Holy One: and them that love her the Lord doth love.
¹⁵Whoso giveth ear unto her shall judge the nations: and he that attendeth unto her shall dwell securely.
¹⁶If a man commit himself unto her, he shall inherit her; and his generation shall hold her in possession.
¹⁷For at the first she will walk with him by crooked ways, and bring fear and dread upon him, and torment him with her discipline, until she may trust his soul, and try him by her laws.
¹⁸Then will she return the straight way unto him, and comfort him, and shew him her secrets.

2Now when Jesus was born in Bethlehem of Judaea in the days of Herod the king, behold, there came wise men from the east to Jerusalem,
²Saying, Where is he that is born King of the Jews? for we have seen his star in the east, and are come to worship him.
³When Herod the king had heard these things, he was troubled, and all Jerusalem with him.
⁴And when he had gathered all the chief priests and scribes of the people together, he demanded of them where Christ should be born.
⁵And they said unto him, In Bethlehem of Judaea: for thus it is written by the prophet,
⁶And thou Bethlehem, in the land of Juda, art not the least among the princes of Juda: for out of thee shall come a Governor, that shall rule my people Israel.
⁷Then Herod, when he had privily called the wise men, enquired of them diligently what time the star appeared.
⁸And he sent them to Bethlehem, and said, Go and search diligently for the young child; and when ye have found him, bring me word again, that I may come and worship him also.
⁹When they had heard the king, they departed; and, lo, the star, which they saw in the east, went before them, till it came and stood over where the young child was.
¹⁰When they saw the star, they rejoiced with exceeding great joy.
¹¹And when they were come into the house, they saw the young child with Mary his mother, and fell down, and worshipped him: and when they had opened their treasures, they presented unto him gifts; gold, and frankincense and myrrh.
¹²And being warned of God in a dream that they should not return to Herod, they departed into their own country another way.