My voice shalt thou hear in the morning, O LORD;
in the morning will I direct my prayer unto thee,
and will look up.[2]
The journey that I take shall not be for mine honour;[3]
the Lord is gone out before me. Up![4]
Awake, awake, utter a song[5] for his name’s sake;[6]
let my sentence come forth from thy presence.[7]
I exhort myself who has heard, who was asked of thee:[8]
lean not unto mine own understanding;[9]
cease from mine own doings;[10]
never shall I serve the groves.[11]
I fear and depart; I answer[12]
and come at the sword sent[13]
whose haft also goes in after the blade.[14]
And I make myself low before the fourth judge,
and unto the last, who I am.
Tonic under the oak of weeping,[15]
I know both how to be abased, and I know how to abound.[16]
Taut on the tree of life,[17]
everywhere and in all things I am instructed
both to be full and to be hungry, both to abound and to suffer need.[18]
I dote not about questions and strifes of words;[19]
You are what is, who forgives, and I am what it was being to be.
And there is no respect of persons,[20]
neither is there respect of persons with him;[21]
for we brought nothing into this world,
and it is certain we can carry nothing out.[22]
Thou: one body, and one spirit,
And Thou sayest to me:
Even as ye are called in one hope of your calling;
One Lord, one faith, one baptism,
One God and Father of all,
Who is above all, and through all, and in us all.[23]
I: remembering without ceasing.[24]
I: praying always with all prayer.[25]
I: to the worth of my vocation.[26]
I: for Thee.
[1] And Scripture rapture.
[2] Psalm 5:3
[3] Judges 4:9
[4] Judges 4:14
[5] Judges 5:12
[6] Psalm 23:3
[7] Psalm 17:2
[8] I Samuel 1:20
[9] Proverbs 3:5
[10] Judges 2:19
[11] Deuteronomy 16:21
[12] Job 28:28; 38:3
[13] Matthew 10:34
[14] Judges 3:22
[15] Genesis 35:8
[16] Philippians 4:12
[17] Genesis 2:9, 3:24
[18] Philippians 4:12
[19] I Timothy 6:4
[20] Colossians 3:25
[21] Ephesians 6:9
[22] I Timothy 6:7
[23] Ephesians 4:4-6
[24] I Thessalonians 1:3
[25] Ephesians 6:18
[26] Ephesians 4:1
