O God, this day we thank you for your

O God, this day we thank you for your Book.

For those who wrote it, for those who lived close to you, so that you could speak to them and so give them a message for their day and for ours;

We thank you, O god.

For those who translated it into our own languages,

Often at the cost of blood and seat and agony and death, so that your word can speak to us in the tongue we know;

We thank you, O God.

For scholars who print it and publish it, and for the great Bible Societies whose work makes it possible for the poorest of people all over the world to possess…