Day 200 The Bible in a Year (Orthodox canon)

Psalm 78 (79)

1 A Psalm for Asaph. O God, the heathen are come into thine inheritance; they have polluted thy holy temple; they have made Jerusalem a storehouse of fruits. 2 They have given the dead bodies of thy servants [to be] food for the birds of the sky, the flesh of thy holy ones for the wild beasts of the earth. 3 They have shed their blood as water, round about Jerusalem; and there was none to bury [them]. 4 We are become a reproach to our neighbours, a scorn and derision to them [that are] round about us. 5 How long, O Lord? wilt thou be angry for ever? shall thy jealousy burn like fire? 6 Pour out thy wrath upon the heathen that have not known thee, and upon the kingdoms which have not called upon thy name. 7 For they have devoured Jacob, and laid his place waste. 8 Remember not our old transgressions; let thy tender mercies speedily prevent us; for we are greatly impoverished. 9 Help us, O God our Saviour; for the glory of thy name, O Lord, deliver us; and be merciful to our sins, for thy name's sake. 10 Lest haply they should say among the heathen, Where is their God? and let the avenging of thy servants' blood that has been shed be known among the heathen before our eyes. 11 Let the groaning of the prisoners come in before thee; according to the greatness of thine arm preserve the sons of the slain ones. 12 Repay to our neighbours sevenfold into their bosom their reproach, with which they have reproached thee, O Lord. 13 For we are thy people and the sheep of thy pasture; we will give thee thanks for ever; we will declare thy praise throughout all generations.

Psalm 79 (80)

1 For the end, for alternate [strains], a testimony for Asaph, a Psalm concerning the Assyrian. 2 Attend, O Shepherd of Israel, who guidest Joseph like a flock; thou who sittest upon the cherubs, manifest thyself; 3 before Ephraim and Benjamin and Manasse, stir up thy power, and come to deliver us. 4 Turn us, O God, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be delivered. 5 O Lord God of hosts, how long art thou angry with the prayer of thy servant? 6 Thou wilt feed us with bread of tears; and wilt cause us to drink tears by measure. 7 Thou hast made us a strife to our neighbours; and our enemies have mocked at us. 8 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and cause thy face to shine; and we shall be saved. Pause. 9 Thou hast transplanted a vine out of Egypt: thou hast cast out the heathen, and planted it. 10 Thou madest a way before it, and didst cause its roots to strike, and the land was filled [with it]. 11 Its shadow covered the mountains, and its shoots [equalled] the goodly cedars. 12 It sent forth its branches to the sea, and its shoots to the river. 13 Wherefore hast thou broken down its hedge, while all that pass by the way pluck it? 14 The boar out of the wood has laid it waste, and the wild beast has devoured it. 15 O God of hosts, turn, we pray thee: look on [us] from heaven, and behold and visit this vine; 16 and restore that which thy right hand has planted: and look on the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself. 17 [It is] burnt with fire and dug up: they shall perish at the rebuke of thy presence. 18 Let thy hand be upon the man of thy right hand, and upon the son of man whom thou didst strengthen for thyself. 19 So will we not depart from thee: thou shalt quicken us, and we will call upon thy name. 20 Turn us, O Lord God of hosts, and make thy face to shine; and we shall be saved.

Psalm 80 (81)

1 For the end, a Psalm for Asaph, concerning the wine-presses. 2 Rejoice ye in God our helper; shout aloud to the God of Jacob. 3 Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp. 4 Blow the trumpet at the new moon, in the glorious day of your feast. 5 For [this] is an ordinance for Israel, and a statute of the God of Jacob. 6 He made it [to be] a testimony in Joseph, when he came forth out of the land of Egypt: he heard a language which he understood not. 7 He removed his back from burdens: his hands slaved in making the baskets. 8 Thou didst call upon me in trouble, and I delivered thee; I heard thee in the secret place of the storm: I proved thee at the water of Strife. Pause. 9 Hear, my people, and I will speak to thee, O Israel; and I will testify to thee: if thou wilt hearken to me; 10 there shall be no new god in thee; neither shalt thou worship a strange god. 11 For I am the Lord thy God, that brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it. 12 But my people hearkened not to my voice; and Israel gave no heed to me. 13 So I let them go after the ways of their own hearts: they will go on in their own ways. 14 If my people had hearkened to me, if Israel had walked in my ways, 15 I should have put down their enemies very quickly, and should have laid my hand upon those that afflicted them. 16 The Lord's enemies [should have] lied to him: but their time shall be for ever. 17 And he fed them with the fat of wheat; and satisfied them with honey out of the rock.

Romans 5

1 Being therefore justified by faith, we have peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; 2 through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God. 3 Not only this, but we also rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces perseverance; 4 and perseverance, proven character; and proven character, hope; 5 and hope doesn’t disappoint us, because God’s love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit who was given to us. 6 For while we were yet weak, at the right time Christ died for the ungodly. 7 For one will hardly die for a righteous man. Yet perhaps for a good person someone would even dare to die. 8 But God commends his own love toward us, in that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. 9 Much more then, being now justified by his blood, we will be saved from God’s wrath through him. 10 For if while we were enemies, we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son, much more, being reconciled, we will be saved by his life. 11 Not only so, but we also rejoice in God through our Lord Jesus Christ, through whom we have now received the reconciliation. 12 Therefore, as sin entered into the world through one man, and death through sin, so death passed to all men because all sinned. 13 For until the law, sin was in the world; but sin is not charged when there is no law. 14 Nevertheless death reigned from Adam until Moses, even over those whose sins weren’t like Adam’s disobedience, who is a foreshadowing of him who was to come. 15 But the free gift isn’t like the trespass. For if by the trespass of the one the many died, much more did the grace of God and the gift by the grace of the one man, Jesus Christ, abound to the many. 16 The gift is not as through one who sinned; for the judgment came by one to condemnation, but the free gift followed many trespasses to justification. 17 For if by the trespass of the one, death reigned through the one; so much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and of the gift of righteousness reign in life through the one, Jesus Christ. 18 So then as through one trespass, all men were condemned; even so through one act of righteousness, all men were justified to life. 19 For as through the one man’s disobedience many were made sinners, even so through the obedience of the one, many will be made righteous. 20 The law came in that the trespass might abound; but where sin abounded, grace abounded more exceedingly, 21 that as sin reigned in death, even so grace might reign through righteousness to eternal life through Jesus Christ our Lord.