And the Gentiles shall come to thy light: and kings to the brightness of thy rising. up And the sons of strangers shall build thy walls and their kings shall minister unto thee; : For in my wrath I smote thee : but in my favour have I had mercy on thee. Therefore thy gates shall be open continually they shall not be shut day nor night; That men may bring unto thee the forces of the Gentiles and that their kings may be brought. The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee the fir tree and the pine tree and the box together; To beautify the place of my sanctuary: and I will make the place of my feet glo rious. : The sons also of them that afflicted thee shall come bending unto thee and all they that despised thee shall bow themselves down at the soles of thy feet; And they shall call thee, The city of the LORD: the Zion of the Holy One of Israel. HYMN VI. Saint Stephen's Day. Wisdom iii. 1-6. 8. The souls of the righteous are in the hand of God and there shall no torment touch them ; : : In the sight of the unwise they seemed to die and their departure is taken for misery. And their going from us to be utter destruction: but they are at peace. For though they be banished in the sight of men yet is their hope full of immortality; And having been a little chastised: they shall be greatly rewarded; For God proved them : and found them worthy for himself. As gold in the furnace hath he tried them : and received them as a burnt-offering. They shall judge the nations and have dominion over the people and their Lord shall reign for ever. HYMN VII. Saint John the Evangelist's Day. 1 John iv. 7-11. Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God. : He that loveth not knoweth not God: for God is love. In this was manifested: the love of God toward us; Because that God sent his only begotten Son into the world that we might live through him. : Herein is love, not that we loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son to be the propitiation for our sins; Beloved, if God so loved us : we ought also to love one another. HYMN VIII. The Ennocents' Day. Song of the Children, 29-34. Blessed art thou, O Lord God of our fathers and to be praised and exalted above all for ever; : And blessed is thy glorious and holy name: and to be praised and exalted above all for ever; Blessed art thou in the temple of thy holy glory and to be praised and glorified above all for ever; Blessed art thou that beholdest the depths, and sittest upon the cherubims : and to be praised and exalted above all for ever; Blessed art thou on the glorious throne of thy kingdom: and to be praised and glorified above all for ever; Blessed art thou in the firmament of Heaven and above all to be praised and glorified for ever. HYMN IX. The Sunday after Christmas Day. 1 Break forth into joy, sing together : ye waste places of Jerusalem; For the LORD hath comforted his people: he hath redeemed Jerusalem. 2 Violence shall no more be heard in thy land wasting nor destruction within thy borders; But thou shalt call thy walls, Salvation : and thy gates, Praise. The sun shall be no more thy Light by day neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee; But the LORD shall be unto thee an everlasting light and thy God thy glory. Thy sun shall no more go down : neither shall thy moon withdraw itself; For the LORD shall be thine everlasting light and the days of thy mourning shall be ended. |