Day 180 The Bible in a Year (Orthodox canon)

Psalm 19 (20)

1 For the end, a Psalm of David. 2 The Lord hear thee in the day of trouble; the name of the God of Jacob defend thee. 3 Send thee help from the sanctuary, and aid thee out of Sion. 4 Remember all thy sacrifice, and enrich thy whole-burnt-offering. Pause. 5 Grant thee according to thy heart, and fulfil all thy desire. 6 We will exult in thy salvation, and in the name of our God shall we be magnified: the Lord fulfil all thy petitions. 7 Now I know that the Lord has saved his Christ: he shall hear him from his holy heaven: the salvation of his right hand is mighty. 8 Some [glory] in chariots, and some in horses: but we will glory in the name of the Lord our God. 9 They are overthrown and fallen: but we are risen, and have been set upright. 10 O Lord, save the king: and hear us in whatever day we call upon thee.

Psalm 20 (21)

1 For the end, a Psalm of David. 2 O Lord, the king shall rejoice in thy strength; and in thy salvation he shall greatly exult. 3 Thou hast granted him the desire of his soul, and hast not withheld from him the request of his lips. Pause. 4 For thou hast prevented him with blessings of goodness: thou hast set upon his head a crown of precious stone. 5 He asked life of thee, and thou gavest him length of days for ever and ever. 6 His glory is great in thy salvation: thou wilt crown him with glory and majesty. 7 For thou wilt give him a blessing for ever and ever: thou wilt gladden him with joy with thy countenance. 8 For the king trusts in the Lord, and through the mercy of the Highest he shall not be moved. 9 Let thy hand be found by all thine enemies: let thy right hand find all that hate thee. 10 Thou shalt make them as a fiery oven at the time of thy presence: the Lord shall trouble them in his anger, and fire shall devour them. 11 Thou shalt destroy their fruit from the earth, and their seed from [among] the sons of men. 12 For they intended evils against thee; they imagined a device which they shall by no means be able to perform. 13 For thou shalt make them [turn their] back in thy latter end, thou wilt prepare their face. 14 Be thou exalted, O Lord, in thy strength: we will sing and praise thy mighty acts.

Psalm 21 (22)

1 For the end, concerning the morning aid, a Psalm of David. 2 O God, my God, attend to me: why hast thou forsaken me? the account of my transgressions is far from my salvation. 3 O my God, I will cry to thee by day, but thou wilt not hear: and by night, and [it shall] not [be accounted] for folly to me. 4 But thou, the praise of Israel, dwellest in a sanctuary. 5 Our fathers hoped in thee; they hoped, and thou didst deliver them. 6 They cried to thee, and were saved: they hoped in thee, and were not ashamed. 7 But I am a worm, and not a man; a reproach of men, and scorn of the people. 8 All that saw me mocked me: they spoke with [their] lips, they shook the head, [saying], 9 He hoped in the Lord: let him deliver him, let him save him, because he takes pleasure in him. 10 For thou art he that drew me out of the womb; my hope from my mother's breasts. 11 I was cast on thee from the womb: thou art my God from my mother's belly. 12 Stand not aloof from me; for affliction is near; for there is no helper. 13 Many bullocks have compassed me: fat bulls have beset me round. 14 They have opened their mouth against me, as a ravening and roaring lion. 15 I am poured out like water, and all my bones are loosened: my heart in the midst of my belly is become like melting wax. 16 My strength is dried up like a potsherd; and my tongue is glued to my throat; and thou hast brought me down to the dust of death. 17 For many dogs have compassed me: the assembly of the wicked doers has beset me round: they pierced my hands and my feet. 18 They counted all my bones; and they observed and looked upon me. 19 They parted my garments [among] themselves, and cast lots upon my raiment. 20 But thou, O Lord, remove not my help afar off: be ready for mine aid. 21 Deliver my soul from the sword; my only-begotten one from the power of the dog. 22 Save me from the lion's mouth; and [regard] my lowliness from the horns of the unicorns. 23 I will declare thy name to my brethren: in the midst of the church will I sing praise to thee. 24 Ye that fear the Lord, praise him; all ye seed of Jacob, glorify him: let all the seed of Israel fear him. 25 For he has not despised nor been angry at the supplication of the poor; nor turned away his face from me; but when I cried to him, he heard me. 26 My praise is of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him. 27 The poor shall eat and be satisfied; and they shall praise the Lord that seek him: their heart shall live for ever. 28 All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before him. 29 For the kingdom is the Lord's; and he is the governor of the nations. 30 All the fat ones of the earth have eaten and worshipped: all that go down to the earth shall fall down before him: my soul also lives to him. 31 And my seed shall serve him: the generation that is coming shall be reported to the Lord. 32 And they shall report his righteousness to the people that shall be born, whom the Lord has made.

2 Peter 2

1 But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction. 2 Many will follow their immoral ways, and as a result, the way of the truth will be maligned. 3 In covetousness they will exploit you with deceptive words: whose sentence now from of old doesn’t linger, and their destruction will not slumber. 4 For if God didn’t spare angels when they sinned, but cast them down to Tartarus, and committed them to pits of darkness to be reserved for judgment; 5 and didn’t spare the ancient world, but preserved Noah with seven others, a preacher of righteousness, when he brought a flood on the world of the ungodly, 6 and turning the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah into ashes, condemned them to destruction, having made them an example to those who would live in an ungodly way, 7 and delivered righteous Lot, who was very distressed by the lustful life of the wicked 8 (for that righteous man dwelling among them was tormented in his righteous soul from day to day with seeing and hearing lawless deeds), 9 then the Lord knows how to deliver the godly out of temptation and to keep the unrighteous under punishment for the day of judgment, 10 but chiefly those who walk after the flesh in the lust of defilement and despise authority. Daring, self-willed, they are not afraid to speak evil of dignitaries, 11 whereas angels, though greater in might and power, don’t bring a slanderous judgment against them before the Lord. 12 But these, as unreasoning creatures, born natural animals to be taken and destroyed, speaking evil in matters about which they are ignorant, will in their destroying surely be destroyed, 13 receiving the wages of unrighteousness; people who count it pleasure to revel in the daytime, spots and defects, reveling in their deceit while they feast with you; 14 having eyes full of adultery, and who can’t cease from sin, enticing unsettled souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children! 15 Forsaking the right way, they went astray, having followed the way of Balaam the son of Beor, who loved the wages of wrongdoing; 16 but he was rebuked for his own disobedience. A speechless donkey spoke with a man’s voice and stopped the madness of the prophet. 17 These are wells without water, clouds driven by a storm, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. 18 For, uttering great swelling words of emptiness, they entice in the lusts of the flesh, by licentiousness, those who are indeed escaping from those who live in error; 19 promising them liberty, while they themselves are bondservants of corruption; for a man is brought into bondage by whoever overcomes him. 20 For if, after they have escaped the defilement of the world through the knowledge of the Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, they are again entangled in it and overcome, the last state has become worse for them than the first. 21 For it would be better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than after knowing it, to turn back from the holy commandment delivered to them. 22 But it has happened to them according to the true proverb, “The dog turns to his own vomit again,” and “the sow that has washed to wallowing in the mire.”