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Jeremiah lamenting the Fall of Jerusalem in 597 BC.

By Rembrandt (1606–1669). Public domain. Source
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Lamentations 1:1

How doth the city sit solitary, that was full of people! how is she become as a widow! she that was great among the nations, and princess among the provinces, how is she become tributary!

On conquest by Babylon in 597 BC

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Comfortable Words

The Authorized ‘King James Bible’ of 1611, with hymns and prayers

January 15 January 2 OS

Comfortable Words lays out the complete text of the Authorized or King James Version of the Bible, published in 1611. You will also find a varied collection of prayers and hymns in a similar kind of ‘Church English’.

“On your bookshelves at home you will have something to supplement any anthology. Open your Bible at the Acts of the Apostles if you want straightforward accounts.”

NL Clay, Straightforward English (1949)

Sunday After Christmas Day

Sunday January 12 NS December 30 OS

Galatians 1:11-19

Matthew 2:13-23

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About the Authorized Version

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In 1611, a team of scholars delivered to King James I of England the new translation of the Bible that he had commissioned from them.

The Comfortable Words

From The Book of Common Prayer

Four short passages from the New Testament appointed to be read aloud in the English Book of Common Prayer of 1549.

Sunday Readings

Short passages from the King James Version, for the Sundays and Feasts of the Christian year.

The Old Testament

Books 39

The story of Israel and her covenants with God, from the making of mankind in the Garden of Eden to Abraham, Moses and David, and the Babylonian Exile in the sixth century BC.

The Apocrypha

Books 14

Stories and wise teachings from the time between the events of the Old Testament and those of the New.

The New Testament

Books 27

The story of Jesus Christ, his birth, his ministry, his death, and how the Apostles preached the good news of his resurrection and the promise of his return.

Bible Readings

Posts 18

A selection of passages from the King James Bible, for reading practice.

Hymns

Posts 46

A selection of Christian verse by modern masters such as Charles Wesley and Isaac Watts, and from the ancient liturgies of East and West.

Prayers and Creeds

Posts 20

Prayers and confessions of faith from the Book of Common Prayer and other sources, in both East and West.

Psalms and Canticles

Posts 10

Translations of the Psalms and other Biblical hymns, from sources other than the King James Bible.

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Isaiah 60:1-3

Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the LORD is risen upon thee.

2 For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the LORD shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee.

3 And the Gentiles shall come to thy light, and kings to the brightness of thy rising.

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Composition Make up sentences using these phrases, making sure you put plenty of action in.

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Rhymes Suggest words that rhyme with ‘love’.

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The Abuse of Literacy Reading and writing should have taught the people more than name-calling and how to manipulate opinion.

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Among Old Friends ‘Alpha of the Plough’ hoped Sir Arthur Conan Doyle did not treat his old friends as he treated his favourite books.

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Music Video Orlando Gibbons: Thus Angels Sung

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A Reckless Indifference to Life In eighteenth-century England, the death penalty was the solution to almost any crime.

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Music Video Sir Charles Villiers Stanford: Symphony No. 3 in F Minor, Op. 28 (Irish): II. Allegro molto vivace

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Vocabulary Express each of these phrases in a single word.

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Dear Anne Elliot Anne Thackeray saw something in Jane Austen’s heroines that she missed in their more modern sisters.

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The Three Bears The beginning of Robert Southey’s classic fairy tale.

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A Man Without a Price A Russian princess admitted defeat with a most gracious compliment.

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Music Video Henry Purcell: Rejoice in the Lord Alway (‘the Bell Anthem’)

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Homonyms Show that each of these words might mean different things to different people.

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Hair by Hair Governments must not use ‘the good of society’ as an excuse to run our lives.

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Music Video William Byrd: The Bells

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Hearken to the Solemn Voice A hymn looking to the coming of Christ in judgement, sung at the Wesleys’ New Year’s Eve watch-nights.

Posted December 30 2024 • Comfortable Words

One Last Look Edith Nesbit brings down the curtain on ‘The Railway Children’.

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Rephrasing Cast Mr Perks’s words into good plain English.

Posted December 29 2024 • Think and Speak

The Illustrious Mourner In Russia, when a blind beggar is laid to rest even the Emperor knows for whom the bell tolls.

Posted December 29 2024 • The Copy Book