Easter Sunday

(Morning) Psalm 118.1-2, 118.14-24

¹ O give thanks to the Lord, for he is good:

his mercy endures for ever.

² Let Israel now proclaim:

that his mercy endures for ever.

¹⁴ The Lord is my strength and my song:

and has become my salvation.

¹⁵ The sounds of joy and deliverance:

are in the tents of the righteous.

¹⁶ The right hand of the Lord does mighty things:

the right hand of the Lord raises up.

¹⁷ I shall not die but live:

and proclaim the works of the Lord.

¹⁸ The Lord has disciplined me hard:

but he has not given me over to death.

¹⁹ Open me the gates of righteousness:

and I will enter and give thanks to the Lord.

²⁰ This is the gate of the Lord:

the righteous shall enter it.

²¹ I will praise you, for you answered me:

and have become my salvation.

²² The stone that the builders rejected:

has become the head of the corner.

²³ This is the Lord’s doing:

and it is marvellous in our eyes.

²⁴ This is the day that the Lord has made:

let us rejoice and be glad in it.

(Evening) Psalm 114

¹ When Israel came out of Egypt:
and the house of Jacob from among a people of an alien tongue,
² Judah became his sactuary:
and Israel his dominion.
³ The sea saw that, and fled:
Jordan was driven back.
⁴ The mountains skipped like rams:
and the little hills like young sheep.
⁵ What ailed you, O sea, that you fled:
O Jordan that you were driven back?
⁶ You mountains, that you skipped like rams:
and you little hills like young sheep?
⁷ Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord:
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
⁸ Who turned the rock into a pool of water:
and the flint-stone into a welling spring.