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51Hearken to me, ye that follow after righteousness, ye that seek the Lord: look unto the rock whence ye are hewn, and to the hole of the pit whence ye are digged.
²Look unto Abraham your father, and unto Sarah that bare you: for I called him alone, and blessed him, and increased him.
³For the Lord shall comfort Zion: he will comfort all her waste places; and he will make her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of the Lord; joy and gladness shall be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
4Hearken unto me, my people; and give ear unto me, O my nation: for a law shall proceed from me, and I will make my judgment to rest for a light of the people.
⁵My righteousness is near; my salvation is gone forth, and mine arms shall judge the people; the isles shall wait upon me, and on mine arm shall they trust.
⁶Lift up your eyes to the heavens, and look upon the earth beneath: for the heavens shall vanish away like smoke, and the earth shall wax old like a garment, and they that dwell therein shall die in like manner: but my salvation shall be for ever, and my righteousness shall not be abolished.

Psalm 34

¹I will bless the Lord at all times: his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
²My soul shall make her boast in the Lord: the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad.
³O magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.
⁴I sought the Lord, and he heard me, and delivered me from all my fears.
⁵They looked unto him, and were lightened: and their faces were not ashamed.
⁶This poor man cried, and the Lord heard him, and saved him out of all his troubles.
⁷The angel of the Lord encampeth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them.
⁸O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.
⁹O fear the Lord, ye his saints: for there is no want to them that fear him.
¹⁰The young lions do lack, and suffer hunger: but they that seek the Lord shall not want any good thing.

¹⁷And if ye call on the Father, who without respect of persons judgeth according to every man’s work, pass the time of your sojourning here in fear:
¹⁸Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;
¹⁹But with the precious blood of Christ, as of a lamb without blemish and without spot:
²⁰Who verily was foreordained before the foundation of the world, but was manifest in these last times for you,
²¹Who by him do believe in God, that raised him up from the dead, and gave him glory; that your faith and hope might be in God.
²²Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
²³Being born again, not of corruptible seed, but of incorruptible, by the word of God, which liveth and abideth for ever.

¹³And, behold, two of them went that same day to a village called Emmaus, which was from Jerusalem about threescore furlongs.
¹⁴And they talked together of all these things which had happened.
¹⁵And it came to pass, that, while they communed together and reasoned, Jesus himself drew near, and went with them.
¹⁶But their eyes were holden that they should not know him.
¹⁷And he said unto them, What manner of communications are these that ye have one to another, as ye walk, and are sad?
¹⁸And the one of them, whose name was Cleopas, answering said unto him, Art thou only a stranger in Jerusalem, and hast not known the things which are come to pass there in these days?
¹⁹And he said unto them, What things? And they said unto him, Concerning Jesus of Nazareth, which was a prophet mighty in deed and word before God and all the people:
²⁰And how the chief priests and our rulers delivered him to be condemned to death, and have crucified him.
²¹But we trusted that it had been he which should have redeemed Israel: and beside all this, to day is the third day since these things were done.
²²Yea, and certain women also of our company made us astonished, which were early at the sepulchre;
²³And when they found not his body, they came, saying, that they had also seen a vision of angels, which said that he was alive.
²⁴And certain of them which were with us went to the sepulchre, and found it even so as the women had said: but him they saw not.
²⁵Then he said unto them, O fools, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:
²⁶Ought not Christ to have suffered these things, and to enter into his glory?
²⁷And beginning at Moses and all the prophets, he expounded unto them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself.
²⁸And they drew nigh unto the village, whither they went: and he made as though he would have gone further.
²⁹But they constrained him, saying, Abide with us: for it is toward evening, and the day is far spent. And he went in to tarry with them.
³⁰And it came to pass, as he sat at meat with them, he took bread, and blessed it, and brake, and gave to them.
³¹And their eyes were opened, and they knew him; and he vanished out of their sight.
³²And they said one to another, Did not our heart burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures?
³³And they rose up the same hour, and returned to Jerusalem, and found the eleven gathered together, and them that were with them,
³⁴Saying, The Lord is risen indeed, and hath appeared to Simon.
³⁵And they told what things were done in the way, and how he was known of them in breaking of bread.