Day 193 The Bible in a Year (Orthodox canon)

Psalm 57 (58)

1 For the end. Destroy not: by David, for a memorial. 2 If ye do indeed speak righteousness, [then] do ye judge rightly, ye sons of men. 3 For ye work iniquities in [your] hearts in the earth: your hands plot unrighteousness. 4 Sinners have gone astray from the womb: they go astray from the belly: they speak lies. 5 Their venom is like [that] of a serpent; as [that] of a deaf asp, and that stops her ears; 6 which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skilfully by the wise. 7 God has crushed their teeth in their mouth: God has broken the cheek-teeth of the lions. 8 They shall utterly pass away like water running through: he shall bend his bow till they shall fail. 9 They shall be destroyed as melted wax: the fire has fallen and they have not seen the sun. 10 Before your thorns feel the white thorn, he shall swallow you up as living, as in his wrath. 11 The righteous shall rejoice when he sees the vengeance of the ungodly: he shall wash his hands in the blood of the sinner. 12 And a man shall say, Verily then there is a reward for the righteous: verily there is a God that judges them in the earth.

Psalm 58 (59)

1 For the end. Destroy not: by David for a memorial, when Saul sent, and watched his house to kill him. 2 Deliver me from mine enemies, O God; and ransom me from those that rise up against me. 3 Deliver me from the workers of iniquity, and save me from bloody men. 4 For, behold, they have hunted after my soul; violent men have set upon me: neither [is it] my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord. 5 Without iniquity I ran and directed [my course aright]: awake to help me, and behold. 6 And thou, Lord God of hosts, the God of Israel, draw nigh to visit all the heathen; pity not any that work iniquity. Pause. 7 They shall return at evening, and hunger like a dog, and go round about the city. 8 Behold, they shall utter a voice with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips; for who, [say they], has heard? 9 But thou, Lord, wilt laugh them to scorn; thou wilt utterly set at nought all the heathen. 10 I will keep my strength, [looking] to thee; for thou, O God, art my helper. 11 [As for] my God, his mercy shall go before me: my God will shew me [vengeance] on mine enemies. 12 Slay them not, lest they forget thy law; scatter them by thy power; and bring them down, O Lord, my defender. 13 [For] the sin of their mouth, [and] the word of their lips, let them be even taken in their pride. 14 And for [their] cursing and falsehood shall utter destruction be denounced: [they shall fall] by the wrath of utter destruction, and shall not be; so shall they know that the God of Jacob is Lord of the ends of the earth. Pause. 15 They shall return at evening, and be hungry as a dog, and go round about the city. 16 They shall be scattered hither and thither for meat; and if they be not satisfied, they shall even murmur. 17 But I will sing to thy strength, and in the morning will I exult [in] thy mercy; for thou hast been my supporter, and my refuge in the day of mine affliction. 18 [Thou art] my helper; to thee, my God, will I sing; thou art my supporter, O my God, [and] my mercy.

Psalm 59 (60)

1 For the end, for them that shall yet be changed; for an inscription by David for instruction, 2 when he [had] burned Mesopotamia of Syria, and Syria Sobal, and Joab [had] returned and smitten [in] the valley of salt twelve thousand. 3 O God, thou hast rejected and destroyed us; thou hast been angry, yet hast pitied us. 4 Thou hast shaken the earth, and troubled it; heal its breaches, for it has been shaken. 5 Thou hast shewn thy people hard things: thou hast made us drink the wine of astonishment. 6 Thou hast given a token to them that fear thee, that they might flee from the bow. Pause. 7 That thy beloved ones may be delivered; save with thy right hand, and hear me. 8 God has spoken in his holiness; I will rejoice, and divide Sicima, and measure out the valley of tents. 9 Galaad is mine, and Manasse is mine; and Ephraim is the strength of my head; 10 Judas is my king; Moab is the caldron of my hope; over Idumea will I stretch out my shoe; the Philistines have been subjected to me. 11 Who will lead me into the fortified city? who will guide me as far as Idumea? 12 Wilt not thou, O God, who hast cast us off? and wilt not thou, O God, go forth with our forces? 13 Give us help from trouble: for vain is the deliverance of man. 14 In God will we do valiantly; and he shall bring to nought them that harass us.

Jude 1

1 Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James, to those who are called, sanctified by God the Father, and kept for Jesus Christ: 2 May mercy, peace, and love be multiplied to you. 3 Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints. 4 For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ. 5 Now I desire to remind you, though you already know this, that the Lord, having saved a people out of the land of Egypt, afterward destroyed those who didn’t believe. 6 Angels who didn’t keep their first domain, but deserted their own dwelling place, he has kept in everlasting bonds under darkness for the judgment of the great day. 7 Even as Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities around them, having in the same way as these given themselves over to sexual immorality and gone after strange flesh, are shown as an example, suffering the punishment of eternal fire. 8 Yet in the same way, these also in their dreaming defile the flesh, despise authority, and slander celestial beings. 9 But Michael, the archangel, when contending with the devil and arguing about the body of Moses, dared not bring against him an abusive condemnation, but said, “May the Lord rebuke you!” 10 But these speak evil of whatever things they don’t know. They are destroyed in these things that they understand naturally, like the creatures without reason. 11 Woe to them! For they went in the way of Cain, and ran riotously in the error of Balaam for hire, and perished in Korah’s rebellion. 12 These are hidden rocky reefs in your love feasts when they feast with you, shepherds who without fear feed themselves; clouds without water, carried along by winds; autumn trees without fruit, twice dead, plucked up by the roots; 13 wild waves of the sea, foaming out their own shame; wandering stars, for whom the blackness of darkness has been reserved forever. 14 About these also Enoch, the seventh from Adam, prophesied, saying, “Behold, the Lord came with ten thousands of his holy ones, 15 to execute judgment on all, and to convict all the ungodly of all their works of ungodliness which they have done in an ungodly way, and of all the hard things which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.” 16 These are murmurers and complainers, walking after their lusts—and their mouth speaks proud things—showing respect of persons to gain advantage. 17 But you, beloved, remember the words which have been spoken before by the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ. 18 They said to you, “In the last time there will be mockers, walking after their own ungodly lusts.” 19 These are those who cause divisions and are sensual, not having the Spirit. 20 But you, beloved, keep building up yourselves on your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit. 21 Keep yourselves in God’s love, looking for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ to eternal life. 22 On some have compassion, making a distinction, 23 and some save, snatching them out of the fire with fear, hating even the clothing stained by the flesh. 24 Now to him who is able to keep them from stumbling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory in great joy, 25 to God our Savior, who alone is wise, be glory and majesty, dominion and power, both now and forever. Amen.