O Lord, let my soul rise up to meet you
as the day rises to meet the sun.

Praise to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit,
as it was in the beginning, is now, and will be forever.

Come, let us bow down and bend the knee : let us kneel before the Lord our Maker.

Let your justice roll down like waters, Lord : but float us on your grace.

Psalm 9:13-15, 19-20
Have pity on me, O Lord : see the misery I suffer from those who hate me, O you who lift me up from the gate of death;
so that I may tell of all your praises and rejoice in your salvation : in the gates their own foot caught.
Rise up, O Lord, let not the ungodly have the upper hand : let them be judged before you.
Put fear upon them, O Lord : let the ungodly know they are but mortal.

Esther 2:5-8, 15-23
Matthew 5:1-10