Emergency Phone Numbers
These emergency Phone Numbers were sent through me through e-mail. I went through them one by one. I just found it to be helpful and useful and is therefore sharing it to all of my guest as your shortcut to those numbers.
Welcome then and please take time to go through it and try out these Emergency Phone Numbers

When in sorrow, call John 14
When men fail you, call Psalm 27
If you want to be fruitful, call John 15
When you have sinned, call Psalm 51
When you worry, call Matthew 6:19-34
When you are in danger, call Psalm 91
When God seems far away, call Psalm 139
When your faith needs stirring, call Hebrews 11
When you are lonely and fearful, call Psalm 23
When you grow bitter and critical, call 1 Cor. 13
For Paul's secret to happiness, call Col. 3:12-17
For idea of Christianity, call 2 Cor. 5:15-19
When you feel down and out, call Romans 8:31-39
When you want peace and rest, call Matt. 11:25-30
When the world seems bigger than God, call Psalm 90
When you want Christian assurance, call Romans 8:1-30
When you leave home for labor or travel, call Psalm 121
When your prayers grow narrow or selfish, call Psalm 67
For a great invention/opportunity, call Isaiah 55
When you want courage for a task, call Joshua 1
How to get along with fellowmen, call Romans 12
When you think of investments/returns, call Mark 10
If you are depressed, call Psalm 27
If your pocketbook is empty, call Psalm 37
If your losing confidence in people, call 1 Cor. 13
If people seem unkind, call John 15
If discouraged about your work, call Psalm 126
If you find the world growing small, and yourself great, call Psalm 19
Emergency numbers may be dialed direct. No operator assistance is
necessary. All lines are open to Heaven 24 hours a day! Feed your
Faith, and doubt will starve to death!

(Author Unknown)

Note: The content to the emergency numbers were taken from the Holy Bible translated from the Latin Vulgate, diligently compared with the Hebrew, Greek, and other editions in divers languages.
Published with the imprimatur and approbation of HIS EMINENCE, PATRICK CARDINAL HAYES Archbishop of New York in January 7, 1938, Copyright in Belgium by Etabl. Brepos. Made in Belgium.
2685 probably is the number of the Bible which was a given to my grandfather Mamerto Nivera Seron as a Christmas gift on December 21, 1955 by the Rev. Fr. Francisco Santiago. It costs only PhP15.00 then. Now, it is the only priceless possession of my family.
This edition contains annotations, references, an historical and chronological index, many maps and illustrations and a family record.

John:14

And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we saw his Glory, the Glory as it were of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth.

Psalm 27

Ad te, Domine, clamabo

David's prayer that his enemies may not prevail over him.

A psalm for David himself

UNTO Thee will I cry, O Lord: O my God, be not thou silent to me: lest if thou be silent to me, I become like them that go down into the pit.
Hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication, when I pray to thee; when I lift up my hands to thy holy temple.
Draw me not away together with the wicked; and with the workers of iniquity destroy me not:
Who speak peace with their neighbour, but evils are in their hearts.
Give them according to their works, and according to the wickedness of their inventions.
According to the works of their hands give thou to them: render to them their reward.
Because they have not understood the works of the Lord, and the operations of his hands: thou shalt destroy them, and shalt not build them up.
Blessed be the Lord, for He hath heard the voice of my supplication.
The Lord is my helper and my protector: in Him hath my heart confided, and I have been helped.
And my flesh hath flourished again, and with my will I will give praise to him.
The Lord is the strength of his people, and the protector of the salvation of his anointed.
Save, O Lord, thy people, and bless thy inheritance: and rule them and exalt them forever.

John 15

John beareth witness of him and crieth out saying This was he of whom I spoke: He that shall come after me, is preferred before me: because he was before me.

Psalm 51

Quid Gloriaris

David condemmeth the wickedness of Doeg, and foretelleth his destruction.

Unto the end, understanding for David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul: David went to the house of Achimelech.
Why dost thou glory in malice, thou that art mighty in iniquity?
All the day long thy tongue hath devised injustice: as a sharp razor, thou hast wrought deceit.
Thou hast loved malice more than goodness: and iniquity rather than to speak righteousness.
Thou hast loved all the words of ruin, O deceitful tongue.
Therefore will God destroy thee forever: He will pluck thee out, and remove thee from thy dwelling place: and thy root out of the land of the living.
The just shall see and fear, and shall laugh at him, and say:
Behold the man that made not God his helper:
But trusted in the abundance of his riches: and prevailed in his vanity.
But I, as a fruitful olive tree in the house of God, have hoped in the mercy of God forever, yea forever and ever.
I will praise thee forever, because thou hast done it: and I will wait on thy name, for it is good in the sight of thy saints.

Matthew 6:19-34

Lay not up to yourselves treasures on earth: where the rust and moth consume, and where thieves break through, and steal.
But lay up to yourselves treasures in heaven: where neither the rust nor moth doth consume, and where do not break through, nor steal.
For where thy treasure is, thy heart also.
The light of thy body is thy eye. If thy eye be single, thy whole
body shall be lightsome.
But if thy eye be evil,thy whole body shall be darksome. If then the light that is in thee be darkness, the darkness itself how great shall it be!
No man can serve two masters. For either he will hate the one, and love the other: or he will sustain the one, and despise the other. You cannot serve God and mammon.
Therefore I say to you, be not solicitous for your life, what you shall eat, nor for your body, what you shall put on. Is not the life more than the meat: and the body more than the raiment?
Behold the birds of the air, for they neither sow, nor do they reap, nor gather into barns: and your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are not you more valuable than they?
And which of you by taking thought, can add to his stature one cubit?
And for raiment why are you solicitous? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow : they labour not, neither do they spin.
But I say to you, that not even Solomon in all his glory was arrayed as one of these.
And if the grass of the field, which is to-day, and to-morrow is cast into the oven, God doth so clothe: how much more you, O ye of little faith!
Be not Solicitous therefore, saying: What shall we eat: or what shall we drink, or wherewith shall we be clothed?
For after all these things do the heaven seek. For your Father knoweth that you have need of all these things.
Seek ye therefore first the Kingdom of God and his justice, and all these things shall be added unto you.
Be not therefore solicitous for tomorrow ; for the morrow will be solicitous for itself. Sufficient for the day is the evil thereof.

+Psalm 91
Bonum est confiter

GOD is to be praised for his wondrous works.

A psalm of a canticle on the Sabbath day.

It is good to give praise to the Lord: and to sing to thy name, O most High.
To shew forth thy mercy in the morning and thy truth in the night:
Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.
For thou hast given me, O Lord, a delight in thy doings: and in the works of thy hands I shall rejoice.
O Lord, how great are thy works! thy thoughts are exceeding deep.
The senseless man shall not know: nor will the fool understand these things.
When the wicked shall spring up as grass: and all the workers of iniquity shall be scattered.
But my horn shall be exalted like that of the unicorn: and my old age in plentiful mercy.
My eyes also hat looked down upon my enemies: and my ear shall hear of the downfall of the malignant that rise up against me.
The just shall flourish like the palm tree: he shall grown up like the cedar of Libanus.
They that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.
They shall still increase in a fruitful old age: and shall be well treated, that they may shew. That the Lord our God is righteous, and there is on iniquity in Him.

Psalm 139
Eripe me, Domine

A prayer to be delivered from the wicked.

Unto the end, a psalm of David.

DELIVER me, O Lord, from the evil man : rescue me from the unjust man who have devised iniquities in their hearts : all the day long they designed battles.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent : the venom of asps is under their lips.
Keep me, O Lord, from the hand of the wicked : and from unjust men deliver me.
Who have proposed to supplant my steps : the proud have hidden a net for me. And they have stretched out cords for a snare : they have laid for me a stumbling block by the wayside.
I said to the Lord: Thou art my God : hear, O Lord, the voice of my supplication.
O Lord, Lord, the strength of my salvation : thou hast overshadowed my head in the day of battle.
Give me not up, O Lord, from my desire to the wicked : they have plotted against me ; do not thou forsake me, lest they should triumph.
The head of them compassing me me about : the labour of their lips shall overwhelm them.
Burning coals shall fall upon them; thou wilt cast them down into the fire; in miseries they shall not be able to stand.
A man full of tongue shall not be established in the earth : evil shall catch the unjust man unto destruction.
I know that the Lord will do justice to the needy, and will revenge the poor.
But as for the just, they shall give glory to thy name; and the upright shall dwell with they countenance.

Hebrews 11

What faith is: its wonderful fruits and efficacy demonstrated in the fathers

Now faith is the substance of things to be hoped for, the evidence of things that appear not.
For by this the ancients obtained a testimony.
By faith we understand that the world was framed by the word of God; that from invisible things visible things might be made.
By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice exceeding that of Cain, by which he obtained a testimony to his gifts; and by it he being dead yet speaketh.
By faith Henoch was translated, that he should not see death; and he was not found, because God had translated him: for before his translation he had testimony that he pleased God.
But without faith it is impossible to please God. For he that cometh to God, must believe that he is, and is a rewarder to them that seek him.
By faith Noe, having received an answer concerning those things which as yet were not seen, moved with fear, framed the ark for the saving of his house, by the which he condemned the world; and was instituted heir of the justice which is by faith.
By faith he that is called Abraham, obeyed to go out into a place which he was to receive for an inheritance; and he went out, not knowing whither he went.
By faith he abode in the land, swelling in cottages, with Isaac and Jacob, the co-heirs of the same promise.
For he looked for a city that hath foundations, whose builder and maker is God.
By faith also Sara herself, being barren, received strength to conceive seed, even past the time of age; because she believed that he was faithful who had promised,
For which cause there sprung even from one (and him as good as dead) as the stars of heaven in multitude, and as the sand which is by the seashore innumerable.
All these died according to faith, not having received the promises, but beholding them afar off, and saluting them, and confessing that they are pilgrims and strangers on the earth.
For they that say these things, do signify that they seek a country.
And truly if they had been mindful of that from whence they came out, they had doubtless time to return.
But now they desire a better, that is to say, a heavenly country. Therefore God is not ashamed to be called their God; for he hath prepared for them a city.
By faith Abraham, when he was tried, offered Isaac: and he that had received the promises, offered up his only begotten son.
(To whom it was said: In Isaac shall thy seed be called)
Accounting that God is able to raise up even from the dead. Whereupon also he received him for a parable.
By faith also of things to come, Isaac blessed Jacob and Esau.
By faith Jacob dying, blessed each of the sons of Joseph, and adored the top of his rod.
By faith Joseph, when he was dying, made mention of the going out of the children of Israel; and gave commandment concerning his bones.
By faith Moses, when he was born, was hid three months by his parents; because they saw he was a comely babe and they feared not the king's edict.
By faith, when he was grown up, denied himself to be the son of Pharaoh's daughter,
Rather choosing to be afflicted with the people of God, than to have the pleasure of sin for a time,
Esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasure of the Egyptians. For he looked unto the reward.
By faith he left Egypt, not fearing the fierceness of the king: for he endured as seeing him that is invisible.
By faith he celebrated the pasch, and the shedding of the blood; that he, who destroyed the firstborn, might not touch them.
By faith they passed through the Red Sea, as by dry land: which the Egyptians attempting, were swallowed up.
By faith the walls of Jericho fell down, by the going round them seven days.
By faith Rahab the harlot perished not with the unbelievers, receiving the spies with peace.
And what shall I yet say? For the time would fail me to tell of Gedeon, Barac, Samson, Jephthe, David, Samuel, and the prophets:
Who by faith conquered kingdoms, wrought justice, obtained promises, stopped the mouths of lions,
Quenched the violence of fire, escaped the edge of the sword, recovered strength from weakness, became valiant in battle, put to flight the armies of foreigners.
Women received their dead raised to life again: but others were racked, not accepting deliverance, that they might find a better resurrection.
And others had trial of mockeries and stripes, moreover also of bonds and prisons.
They were stoned, they were cut asunder, they were tempted, they were put to death by the sword, they wandered about in sheepskins, in goatskins, being in want, distressed, afflicted:
Of whom the world was not worthy, wandering in deserts, in mountains, and in dens, and in caves of the earth.
And all these being approved by the testimony of faith, received not the promise;
God providing some better thing for us, that they should not be perfected without us.


Psalm 23
Domine est terra.

Who are they that shall ascend to heaven: Christ's triumphant ascension thither.

On the first day of the week, a psalm for David.

The earth is the Lords and the fullness thereof : the world, and all they that dwell therein.
For he hath founded it upon the seas; and hath prepared it upon the rivers.
Who shall ascend into the mountain of the Lord : or who shall stand in the holy place?
The innocent in hands, and clean of heart, who hath not taken his soul in vain, nor sworn deceitfully to his neighbour.
He shall receive a blessing from the Lord, and mercy from God his saviour.
This is the generation of them that seek him, of them that seek the face of the God of Jacob.
Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates : and the King of Glory shall enter in.
Who is this King of Glory?
The Lord who is strong and might: the Lord mighty in battle.
Lift up your gates, O ye princes, and be ye lifted up, O eternal gates : and the King of Glory shall enter in.
Who is this King of Glory?
The Lord of hosts, he is the King of Glory.

1 Cor. 13

Charity is to be preferred before all other gifts.

If I speak with the tongues of men, and of angels, and have not charity, I am become as sounding brass, or a tinkling cymbal.
And if I should have prophecy and should know all mysteries, and all knowledge, and if I should have all faith, so that I could remove mountains, and have not charity, I am nothing.
And if I should distribute all my goods to feed the poor, and if I should deliver my body to be burned, and have not charity, it profiteth me nothing.
Charity is patient, is kind; charity envieth not, dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up;
Is not ambitious, seeketh not her own; is not provoked to anger, thinketh no evil.
Rejoiceth not in iniquity, but rejoiceth with the truth;
Beareth all things, believeth all things, hopeth all things, endureth all things.
Charity never falleth away: whether prophecies shall be made void, or tongues shall cease, or knowledge shall be destroyed.
For we know in part, and we prophesy in part.
But when that which is perfect is come, that which is in part shall be put away.
When I was a child, I spoke as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child. But, when I became a man, I put away the things of a child.
We see now through a glass in a dark manner; but then face to face. Now I know in part; but then I shall know even as I am known.
And now there remain faith, hope, and charity, these three: but the greatest of these is charity.

Col. 3:12-17
He exhorts them put off the old man, and to put on the new. The duties of wives and husbands, children and servants.

Put ye on therefore, as the elect of God, holy, and beloved, the soul of mercy, benignity, humility, modesty, patience:
Bearing with one another, and forgiving one another, if any have a complaint against another: even as the Lord hath forgiven you, so do you also.
But above all these things have charity, which is the bond of perfection:
And let the peace of Christ rejoice in your hearts, wherein also you are called in one body: and be ye thankful.
Let the word of Christ swell in you abundantly, in all wisdom: teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns, and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.
All whatsoever you do in word or in work, do all in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, giving thanks to God and the Father by him.

2 Cor. 5:15-19
And Christ died for all; that they also, who live, may not now live to themselves, but unto him who died for them, and rose again.
Wherefore henceforth, we know no man according to the flesh. And if we have known Christ according to the flesh; but now we know him so no longer.
If then any be in Christ a new creature, the old things are passed away, behold all things are made new.
But all things are of God, who hath reconciled us to himself by Christ; and hath given to us the ministry of reconciliation.
For God indeed was in Christ, reconciling the world to himself, not imputing to them their sins; and he hath placed in us the word of reconciliation.

Romans 8:31-39

What shall we then say to these things? If God be for us, who is against us?
He that spared not even his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how hath he not also, with him, given us all things!
Who shall accuse against the elect of God? God that justifieth.
Who is he that shall condemn? Christ Jesus that died, yea that is risen also again; who is at the right hand of God, who also maketh intercession for us.
Who then shall separate us from the love of Christ? Shall tribulation, or distress, or famine, or nakedness, or danger, or persecution, or the sword?
(As it is written: For thy sake we are put to death all the day long. We are accounted as sheep for the slaughter.)
But in all these things we overcome, because of him that hath loved us.
For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor powers, nor things present, nor things to to come, nor might,
Nor height, nor depth, nor any other creature shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.

Matt. 11:25-30

At that time Jesus answered and said: I confess to thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them to little ones.
Yea, Father; for so hath it seemed good in thy sight.
All things are delivered to me by my Father. And no one knoweth the Son, but the Father: but the Son, and he to whom it shall please the Son to reveal him.
Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you.
Take up my yoke upon you, and learn of me, because I am meek, and humble of heart: and you shall find rest to your souls.
For my yoke is sweet and my burden light.



Psalm 90
Qui habitat

The just is secure under the protection of God.

The praise of a canticle for David.

He that dwelleth in the aid of the most High, shall abide under the protection of the God of Jacob.
He shall say to the Lord: Thou art my protector, and my refuge: my God in him I trust.
For he had delivered me from the snares of the hunters: and from their sharp words.
He will over shadow thee with his shoulders: under his wings thou shalt trust.
His truth shall compass thee with a shield: thou shalt not be afraid of the terror of the night.
Of the arrow that flieth in the day, of the business that walketh about in the dark: of the invasion, or of the noonday devil.
A thousand shall fall of thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it shall not come nigh thee.
But thou shalt consider with thy eyes: and shalt see the reward of the wicked.
Because thou, O Lord, art my hope: thou hast made of the most High thy refuge.
There shall no evil come to thee: nor shall the scourge come near thy dwelling.
For he hath given his angels charge over thee; to keep thee in all thy ways.
In their hands they shall bear thee up: lest thou dash thy foot against a stone.
Thou shalt walk upon the asp and the basilisk: and thou shalt trample under the foot the lion and the dragon.
Because he hoped in me I will deliver him: I will protect him because he hath known my name.
He shall cry to me, and I will hear him: I am with him in tribulation, I will deliver him, and I will glorify him.
I will fill him with length of days; and I will shew him my salvation.

Romans 8:1-30

There is no condemnation to them that, being justified by Christ, walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit. Their strong hope and love of God.

There is now therefore no condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus, who walk not according to the flesh.
For the law of the spirit of life, in Christ Jesus, hath delivered from the law of sin and of death.
For what the law could not do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God sending his own Son, in the likeness of sinful flesh and of sin, hath condemned sin in the flesh.
That the justification of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not according to the flesh, but according to the spirit.
For they that are according to the flesh, mind the things that are of the flesh; but they are according to the spirit, mind the things that are of the spirit.
For the wisdom of the flesh is death; but the wisdom of the spirit is life and peace.
Because the wisdom of the flesh is an enemy to God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither can it be.
And they who are in the flesh, cannot please God.
But you are not in the flesh, but in the spirit, if so be that the spirit of God dwell in you. Now if any man have not hte Spirit of Christ, he is none of his.
And if Christ be in you, the indeed is dead because of sin, but the spirit liveth, because of justification.
And if the Spirit of him that raised up Jesus from the dead, swell in you, he that raised up Jesus Christ from the dead, shall quicken also your mortal bodies, because of his Spirit that dwelleth in you.
Therefore, brethren, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live according to the flesh.
For if you live according to the flesh, you shall die: but if by the Spirit you mortify the deeds of the flesh, you shall live.
For whosoever are led by the Spirit of God, they are the sons of God.
For you have not receive the spirit of bondage again in fear; but you have received the spirit of adoption of sons, whereby we cry: Abba (Father).
For the Spirit himself giveth testimony to our spirit, that we are the sons of God.
And if sons, heirs also; heirs indeed of God, and joint-heirs with Christ: yet so, if we suffer with him, that we may be also glorified with him.
For I reckon that the sufferings of this time are not worthy to be compared with the glory to come, that shall be revealed in us.
For the expectation of the creature waiteth for the revelation of the sons of God.
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him that made it subject, in the hope
That the creature also itself shall be delivered from the servitude of corruption, into the liberty of the children of God.
For we know that every creature groaneth, and traveleth in pain, even till now.
And not only it, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption of the sons of God, the redemption of our body.
For we are saved by hope. But hope that is seen, is not hope. For what a man seeth, why doth he hope for?
But if we hope for that which we see not, we wait for it with patience.
Likewise the Spirit also helpeth our infirmity. For we know not what we should pray for as we ought; but the Spirit himself asketh for us with unspeakable groanings.
And he that searcheth the hearts, knoweth what the Spirit desireth; because he asketh for the saints according to God.
And we know that to them that love God, all things work together unto good, to such as, according to his purpose, are called to be saints.
For whom he foreknew, he also predestinated to be made comfortable to the image of his Son; that he might be the firstborn amongst many brethren.
And whom he predestinated, them he also called. And whom he called, them he also justified. And whom he justified, them he also glorified.

Psalm 121
Laetatus sum in his.

The desire and hope of the just for the coming of the kingdom of God, and the peace of his church.

A gradual canticle.

I rejoiced at the things that were said to me,: We shall go into the house of the Lord.
Our feet were standing in thy courts, O Jerusalem.
Jerusalem, which is built as a city, which is compact together.
For thither did the tribes go up, the tribes of the Lord: the testimony of Israel, to praise the name of the Lord.
Because their seats have sat in judgement, seats upon the house of David.
Pray ye for the things that are for the peace of Jerusalem: and the abundance for them that love thee.
Let peace be in thy strength : and the abundance in thy towers.
For the sake of my brethren, and of my neighbors, I spoke peace of thee.
Because of the Lord our God, I have sought good things for thee.

Psalm 67
Exurgat Deus

The glorious establishment of the church of the New Testament, prefigured by the benefits bestowed on the people of Israel.

Unto the end, a psalm of a canticle for David himself

Let GOD arise, and let his enemies be scattered: and let them that hate him flee from before his face
As smoke vanisheth, so let them vanish away: as wax melteth before the fire, so let the wicked perish at the presence of God.
And let the just feast, and rejoice before God: and be delighted with gladness.
Sing ye to God, sing a psalm to his name, make a way for him who ascendeth upon the west: the Lord is his name.
Rejoice ye before him: but the wicked shall be troubled at his presence, who is the father of orphans, and the judge of widows.
God in his holy place: God who maketh men of one manner to dwell in a house: Who bringeth out them that were bound in strength; in like manner them that provoke, that dwell in sepulchres.
O God, when thou didst go forth in the sight of thy people, when thou didst pass through the desert:
The earth was moved, and the heavens dropped at the presence of the God of Sina, at the presence of the God of Israel.
Thou shalt set aside for thy inheritance a free rain, O God: and it was weakened, but thou hast made it perfect.
In it shall thy animals dwell; in thy sweetness, O God, thou hast provided for the poor.
The Lord shall give the word to them that preach good tidings with great power.
The king of powers is of the beloved, of the beloved; and the beauty of the house shall divide spoils.
If you sleep among the midst of lots, you shall be as the wings of a dove covered with silver, and the hinder parts of her back with the paleness of gold.
When he that is in heaven appointeth kings over her, they shall be whited with snow in Selmon.
The mountain of God is a fat mountain. A curdled mountain, a fat mountain.
Why suspect, ye curdled mountains? A mountain in which God is well pleased to dwell: for there the Lord shall dwell unto the end.
The chariot of God is attended by ten thousands; thousands of them that rejoice: the Lord is among them in Sina, in the holy place.
Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive; thou hast received gifts in men.
Yea for those also that do not believe, the dwelling of the Lord God.
Blessed be the Lord day by day: the God of our salvation will make our journey prosperous to us.
Our God is the God of salvation: and of the Lord, Of the Lord are the issues from death.
But God shall break the heads of his enemies: the hairy crown of them that walk on in their sins
The Lord said: I will turn them from Basan, I will turn them into the depth of the sea:
That thy foot may be dipped in the blood of thy enemies; the tongue of thy dogs be red with the same.
They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God: of my king who is in his sanctuary.
Princes went before joined with singers, in the midst of young damsels playing on timbrels.
In the churches bless ye God the Lord, from the fountains of Israel.
There is Benjamin a youth, in ecstasy of mind.
The princes of Juda are their leaders the princes of Zabulon, the princes of Nephthali.
Command thy strength, O God: confirm, O God, what thou hast wrought in us.
From thy temple in Jerusalem, kings shall offer presents to thee.
Rebuke the wild beasts of the reeds, the congregation of bulls with the kine of the people; who seek to exclude them who are tried with silver.
Scatter thou the nations that delight in wars: ambassadors shall come out of Egypt: Ethiopia shall soon stretch out her hands to God.
Sing to God, ye kingdoms of the earth: sing ye to the Lord: Sing ye to God, who mounteth above the heaven of heavens, to the east.
Behold he will give to his voice the voice of power: give ye glory to God for Israel, his magnificence, and his power is in the clouds.
God is wonderful in his saints: the God of Israel is he who will give power and strength to his people. Blessed be God.

Isaiah 55

God promises abundance of spiritual graces to the faithful, that shall believe in Christ out of all nations, and sincerely serve him.

All you that thirst, come to the waters: and you that have no money make haste, buy, and eat: come ye, buy wine and milk without money, and without any price.
Why do you spend money for that which is not bread, and your labour for that which doth not satisfy you? Hearken diligently to me, and eat that which is good, and your soul shall be delighted in fatness.
Incline your ear and come to me: hear and your soul shall live, and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, the faithful mercies of David.
Behold I have given him for a witness to the people, for a leader and a master to the Gentiles.
Behold shalt call a nation, which thou knewest not: and the nations that knew not thee shall run to thee, because of the Lord thy God, and for the Holy One of Israel, for he hath glorified thee.
Seek ye the Lord, while he may be found: call upon him, while he is near.
Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unjust man his thoughts, and let him return to the Lord, and he will have mercy on him, and to our God: for he is bountiful to forgive.
For my thoughts are not your thoughts: nor your ways my ways, saith the Lord.
For as the heavens are exalted above your ways, and my thoughts above your thoughts.
And as the rain and the snow come down from heaven, and return no more thither, but soak the earth, and water it, and make it to spring, and give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
So shall my word be, which shall go forth from my mouth: it shall not return to me void, but it shall do whatsoever I please, and shall prosper in the things for which I sent it.
For you shall go out with joy, and be led forth with pace: the mountains and the hills shall sing praise before you, and all the trees f the country shall clap their hands.
Instead of the shrub, shall come up the fir tree, and instead of the nettle, shall come up the myrtle tree: and the Lord shall be named for an everlasting sign, that shall not be taken away.-

Joshua 1

Josue, encouraged by the Lord, admonisheth the people to prepare themselves to pass over the Jordan.

Now it came to pass after the death of Moses the servant of the Lord, that the Lord spoke to Josue the son of Nun, the minister of Moses, and said to him.
Moses my servant is dead: arise, and pass over this Jordan, thou and thy people with thee, into the land which I will give to the children of Israel.
I will deliver to you every place that the sole of your foot shall tread upon, as I have said to Moses.
From the desert and from Libanus unto the great river Euphrates, all the land of the Hethites unto the great sea toward the going down of the sun, shall be your border.
No man shall be able to resist you all the days of thy life: as I have been with Moses, so will I be with thee: I will not leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Take courage, and be strong: for thou shalt divide by lot to this people the land, for which I swore to their fathers, that I would deliver it to them.
Take courage therefore, and be very valiant: that thou mayst observe and do all the law, which Moses my servant hath commanded thee: turn not from it to the right hand or to the left, that thou mayst understand all things which thou dost.
Let not the book of this law depart from thy mouth: but thou shalt meditate on it day and night, that thou mayst observe and do all things that are written in it: then shalt thou direct thy way, and understand it.
Behold I command thee, take courage and be strong. Fear not and be not dismayed: because the Lord thy God is with thee in all things whatsoever thou shalt go to.
And Josue commanded the princes of the people, saying: Pass through the midst of the camp, and command the people, and say:
Prepare you victuals: for after the third day you shall pass over the Jordan and shall go in to possess the land, which the Lord your God will give you.
And he said to the Rubenites, and the Gadites, and the half tribe of Manasses:
Remember the word, which Moses the servant of the Lord commanded you, saying: The Lord your God hath given you rest, and all this land.
Your wives, and children, and cattle shall remain in the land which Moses gave you on this side of the Jordan: but pass you over armed before your brethren, all of you that are strong of hand, and fight for them.
Until the Lord give rest to your brethren as he hath given you, and they also possess the land which the Lord your God will give them: and so you shall return into the land of your possession, and you shall dwell in it, which Moses the servant of the Lord have you beyond the Jordan, toward the rising of the sun.
And they made answer to Josue, and said: All that thou hast commanded us we will do, and whithersoever thou shalt send us, we will go.
As we obeyed Moses in all things, so will we obey thee also: only be the Lord thy God with thee, as he was with Moses.
He that shall gainsay thy mouth, and not obey all thy words, that thou shalt command him, let him die: only take thou courage, and do manfully.

Romans 12

Lessons of Christian virtues

I beseech you therefore, brethren, by the mercy of God, that you present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, pleasing unto God, your reasonable service.
And be not conformed to this world; but be reformed in the newness of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, and the acceptable, and the perfect will of God.
For I say, by the grace that is given me, to all that are among you, not to be more wise than it behoveth to be wise, but to be wise unto sobriety, and according as God hath divided to every one the measure of faith.
For as in one body we have many members,but all the members have not the same office.
So we being many are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.
And having different gifts, according to the grace that is given us, either prophecy, to be used according to the rule of faith.
Or ministry, in ministering; or he that teacheth, in doctrine;
He that exhorteth, in exhorting; he that giveth, with simplicity; he that ruleth, with cheerfulness.
Let love be without dissimulation. Hating that which is evil, cleaving to that which is good:
Loving one another with the charity of brotherhood, with honour preventing one another,
In carefulness not slothful, in spirit fervent, serving the Lord,
Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation,instant in prayer,
Communicating to the necessities of the saints, pursuing hospitality.
Bless them that persecute you: bless and curse not.
Rejoice with them that rejoice; weep with them that weep.
Being of one mind one towards another: not minding high things, but consenting to the humble. Be not wise in your own conceits.
To no man rendering evil for evil. Providing good things, not only in the sight of God, but also in the sight of all men:
If it possible, as much as is in you, having peace with all men.
Revenge not yourselves my dearly beloved; but give place unto wrath, for it is written: Revenge is mine, I will repay, saith the Lord.
But if thy enemy be hungry, give him to eat; if he thirst, give him drink. For, doing this, thou shalt heap coals of fire upon his head.
Be not overcome by evil, but overcome evil
by good.

Mark 10

Marriage is not to be dissolved. The danger of riches. The ambition of the sons of Zebedee. A blind man is restored to his sight.

And rising up from thence, he cometh into the coasts of Judea, beyond the Jordan : and the multitudes flock to him again. And as he was accustomed, he taught them again.
And the Pharises coming to him asked him : Is it lawful for a man to put away his wife? tempting him.
But he answering saith to them : What did Moses command you?
Who said : Moses permitted to write a bill of divorce, and to put her away.
To whom Jesus answering, said : Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you that precept.
But from the beginning of the creation God made them male and female.
For this cause a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave to his wife.
And they two shall be in one flesh. therefore now they are not two, but one flesh.
What therefore God hath joined together, let not man put asunder.
And in the house again his disciples asked him concerning the same thing.
And he saith to them : Whosoever shall put away his wife and marry another, committeth adultery.
And if the wife shall put away her husband, and be married to another, she committeth adultery.
And they brought to him young children, that he might touch them. And the disciples rebuked those that brought them.
Whom when Jesus saw, he was much displeased, and saith to them : Suffer the little children to come unto me, and forbid them not. For of such is the kingdom of God.
Amen I say to you, whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, shall not enter into it.
And embracing them, and laying his hands upon them, he blessed them.
And when he was gone forth into the way, a certain man running up and kneeling before him : asked him, Good Master, what shall I do that I may receive life everlasting?
And Jesus said to him : Why callest thou me good? None is good but one, that is God.
Thou knowest the commandments : Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, bear not false witness, do not fraud, honour thy father and mother.
But he answering, said to him : Master, all these things I have observed from my youth.
And Jesus looking on him, loved him, and said to him : One thing is wanting unto thee : go, sell whatsoever thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven ; and come, follow me.
Who being struck sad at that saying, went away sorrowful : for he had great possessions.
And Jesus looking round about, saith to his disciples : How hardly shall they that have riches, enter into the kingdom of God!
And the disciples were astonished at his words. But Jesus again answering, saith to them : Children, how hard is it for them that trust in riches, to enter into the kingdom of God!
It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God.
Who wondered the more, saying among themselves : Who then can be saved:
And Jesus looking on them, saith : With the men it is impossible ; but not with God. For all things are possible with God.
And Peter began to say unto him : Behold, we have left all things, and have followed thee.
Jesus answering, said : Amen I say to you, there is no man who hath left house, of brethren, or sisters, or father, or mother, or children, or lands for my sake and for the gospel.
Who shall not receive a hundred times as much, now in this time, housed, and brethren, and sisters, and mothers, and children, and lands, with persecutions : and in the world to come life everlasting.
But many that are first, shall be last : and the last, first.
And they were in the way going up to Jerusalem : and Jesus went before them, and they were astonished, and following were afraid. And taking again the twelve, he began to tell them the things that should befall him.
Saying : Behold we go up to Jerusalem, and the Son of man shall be betrayed to the chief priests, and to the scribes and ancients. and they shall condemn him to death, and shall deliver him to the Gentiles.
And they shall mock him, and spit on him, and scourge him, and kill him : and third day he shall rise again.
And James and John, the sons of Zebedee, come to him, saying : Master we desire that whatsoever we shall ask, thou wouldst do it for us :
But he said to them : What would you that I should do for you?
And they said : Grant to us, that we may sit, one on thy right hand and the other on thy left hand, in thy glory.
And Jesus said to them them : You know not what you ask. Can you you drink of the chalice that I drink of : or be baptized with the baptism wherewith I am baptized?
But they said to him : We can. And Jesus saith to them : You shall indeed drink of the chalice that I drink of the chalice that I drink of : and or be baptized with the baptism wherewith I am baptized, you shall be baptized.
But to sit on my right hand, or on my left, is not mine to give to you, but to them for whom it is prepared.
And the ten hearing it, began to be much displeased at James and John.
But Jesus calling them, saith to them : You know that they who seem to rule over the Gentiles, lord it over them : and their princes have power over them.
But it is not so among you: but whosoever will be greater, shall be your minister.
And whosoever will be first among you, shall be the servant of all.
For the Son of man also is not come to be ministered unto, but to minister and to give his life a redemption for many.
And they came to Jericho: and as he went out of Jericho, with his disciples, and a very great multitude, Bartimeus the blind man, the son of Timeus, sat by the wayside begging.
Who when he had heard that it was Jesus of Nazareth, began to cry out, and to say: Jesus, son of David, have mercy on me.
And Jesus standing still, commanded him to be called. And they call the blind man, saying to him: Be of good cheer: arise, he calleth thee.
Who casting off his garment leaped up, and came to him.
And Jesus answering, said to him: What wilt thou that I should do to thee? And the blind man said to him: Rabboni, that I may see.
And Jesus saith to him: Go thy way, thy faith hath made thee whole. And immediately he saw, and followed him in the way.

Psalm 37
Deomine, ne in furore

A prayer of penitent for the remission of his sins. The third penitential psalm.

A psalm for David, for a remembrance of the Sabbath.

Rebuke me not, O Lord, in thy indignation; nor chastise me in thy wrath.
For thy arrows are fastened in me: and thy hand hath been strong upon me.
There is no health in my flesh, because of thy wrath: there is no peace for my bones, because of my sins.
For my iniquities are gone over my head: and as a heavy burden are become heavy upon me.
My sores are putrefied and corrupted, because of my foolishness.
I am become miserable, and am bowed down even to the end: I walked sorrowful and all the day long.
For my loins are filled with illusions; and there is no health in my flesh.
I am afflicted and humbled exceedingly: I roared with the groaning of my heart.
Lord, all my desire is before thee, and my groaning is not hidden from thee.
My heart is troubled, my strength hath left me, and the light of my eyes itself is not with me.
My friends and my neighbours have drawn near, and stood against me. And they that were near me stood afar off:
And they that sought my soul used violence.
And they that sought evils to me spoke vain things, and studied deceits all the day long.
But I, as a deaf man, heard not: and as a dumb man not opening his mouth.
And I became as a man that heareth not: and that hath no reproofs in his mouth.
For in thee, O Lord, have I hoped: thou wilt hear me, O Lord my God.
For I said: Lest at any time my enemies rejoice over me: and whilst my feet are moved, they speak great things against me.
For I am ready for scourges: and my sorrow is continually before me.
For I will declare my iniquity: and I will think for my sin.
But my enemies live, and are stronger than I: and they that hate me wrongfully are multiplied.
They that render evil for good, have detracted me, because I followed goodness.
Forsake me not, O Lord my God: do not thou depart from me.
Attend unto my help, O, Lord, the God of my salvation.

Psalm 126
Nisi Dominus

Nothing can be done without God's grace and blessing.

A gradual canticle of Solomon

Unless the Lord build the house, they labour in vain that build it.
Unless the Lord keep the city, he watcheth in vain that keepeth it.
It is vain for you to rise before light, rise ye after you have sitten, you that eat the bread of sorrow.
When he shall give sleep to his beloved, behold the inheritance of the Lord are children: the reward, the fruit of the womb.
As arrows in the hand of the mighty, so the children of them that have been shaken
Blessed is the man that hat filled the desire with them; he shall not be confounded when he shall speak to his enemies in the gate.

Psalm 19
Exaudiat te Dominus

A prayer for the king.

Unto the end. A psalm for David

May the Lord hear thee in the day of tribulation: may the name of the God of Jacob protect thee.
May he send thee help from the sanctuary: and defend thee out of Sion.
May he be mindful of all thy sacrifices: and may thy whole burnt offering be made fat.
May he give thee according to thy own hear; and confirm all thy counsels.
We will rejoice in thy salvation; and in the name of our God we shall be exalted.
The Lord fulfil all thy petitions: now have I known that the Lord hath saved his anointed.
He will hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is in powers.
Some trust in chariots, and some in horses: but we will call upon the name of the Lord our God.
They are bound, and have fallen; but we are risen, and are set upright.
O Lord, save the king: and hear us in the day that we shall call upon thee.

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