Day 207 The Bible in a Year (Orthodox canon)

Psalm 99 (100)

1 A Psalm for Thanksgiving. Make a joyful noise to the Lord, all the earth. 2 Serve the Lord with gladness; come before his presence with exultation. 3 Know that the Lord he is God; he made us, and not we ourselves; [we are] his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with hymns; give thanks to him, praise his name. 5 For the Lord is good, his mercy is for ever; and his truth [endures] to generation and generation.

Psalm 100 (101)

1 A Psalm of David. I will sing to thee, O Lord, of mercy and judgment; I will sing a psalm, 2 and I will be wise in a blameless way. When wilt thou come to me? I walked in the innocence of my heart, in the midst of my house. 3 I have not set before mine eyes any unlawful thing; I have hated transgressors. 4 A perverse heart has not cleaved to me; I have not known an evil man, forasmuch as he turns away from me. 5 Him that privily speaks against his neighbour, him have I driven from [me]: he that is proud in look and insatiable in heart,—with him I have not eaten. 6 Mine eyes [shall be] upon the faithful of the land, that they may dwell with me: he that walked in a perfect way, the same ministered to me. 7 The proud doer dwelt not in the midst of my house; the unjust speaker prospered not in my sight. 8 Early did I slay all the sinners of the land, that I might destroy out of the city of the Lord all that work iniquity.

Psalm 101 (102)

1 A Prayer for the Poor; when he is deeply afflicted, and pours out his supplication before the Lord. 2 Hear my prayer, O Lord, and let my cry come to thee. 3 Turn not away thy face from me: in the day [when] I am afflicted, incline thine ear to me: in the day [when] I shall call upon thee, speedily hear me. 4 For my days have vanished like smoke, and my bones have been parched like a stick. 5 I am blighted like grass, and my heart is dried up; for I have forgotten to eat my bread. 6 By reason of the voice of my groaning, my bone has cleaved to my flesh. 7 I have become like a pelican of the wilderness; 8 I have become like an owl in a ruined house. I have watched, and am become as a sparrow dwelling alone on a roof. 9 All the day long mine enemies have reproached me; and they that praised me have sworn against me. 10 For I have eaten ashes as it were bread, and mingled my drink with weeping; 11 because of thine anger and thy wrath: for thou hast lifted me up, and dashed me down. 12 My days have declined like a shadow; and I am withered like grass. 13 But thou, Lord, endurest for ever, and thy memorial to generation and generation. 14 Thou shalt arise, and have mercy upon Sion: for [it is] time to have mercy upon her, for the set time is come. 15 For thy servants have taken pleasure in her stones, and they shall pity her dust. 16 So the nations shall fear thy name, O Lord, and all kings thy glory. 17 For the Lord shall build up Sion, and shall appear in his glory. 18 He has had regard to the prayer of the lowly, and has not despised their petition. 19 Let this be written for another generation; and the people that shall be created shall praise the Lord. 20 For he has looked out from the height of his sanctuary; the Lord looked upon the earth from heaven; 21 to hear the groaning of the fettered ones, to loosen the sons of the slain; 22 to proclaim the name of the Lord in Sion, and his praise in Jerusalem; 23 when the people are gathered together, and the kings, to serve the Lord. 24 He answered him in the way of his strength: tell me the fewness of my days. 25 Take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years [are] through all generations. 26 In the beginning thou, O Lord, didst lay the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands. 27 They shall perish, but thou remainest: and [they all] shall wax old as a garment; and as a vesture shalt thou fold them, and they shall be changed. 28 But thou art the same, and thy years shall not fail. 29 The children of thy servants shall dwell [securely], and their seed shall prosper for ever.

Romans 10

1 Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. 2 For I testify about them that they have a zeal for God, but not according to knowledge. 3 For being ignorant of God’s righteousness, and seeking to establish their own righteousness, they didn’t subject themselves to the righteousness of God. 4 For Christ is the fulfillment of the law for righteousness to everyone who believes. 5 For Moses writes about the righteousness of the law, “The one who does them will live by them.” 6 But the righteousness which is of faith says this, “Don’t say in your heart, ‘Who will ascend into heaven?’ (that is, to bring Christ down); 7 or, ‘Who will descend into the abyss?’ (that is, to bring Christ up from the dead.)” 8 But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart;” that is, the word of faith which we preach: 9 that if you will confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. 10 For with the heart one believes resulting in righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made resulting in salvation. 11 For the Scripture says, “Whoever believes in him will not be disappointed.” 12 For there is no distinction between Jew and Greek; for the same Lord is Lord of all, and is rich to all who call on him. 13 For, “Whoever will call on the name of the Lord will be saved.” 14 How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? How will they believe in him whom they have not heard? How will they hear without a preacher? 15 And how will they preach unless they are sent? As it is written: “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the Good News of peace, who bring glad tidings of good things!” 16 But they didn’t all listen to the glad news. For Isaiah says, “Lord, who has believed our report?” 17 So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. 18 But I say, didn’t they hear? Yes, most certainly, “Their sound went out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world.” 19 But I ask, didn’t Israel know? First Moses says, “I will provoke you to jealousy with that which is no nation. I will make you angry with a nation void of understanding.” 20 Isaiah is very bold and says, “I was found by those who didn’t seek me. I was revealed to those who didn’t ask for me.” 21 But about Israel he says, “All day long I stretched out my hands to a disobedient and contrary people.”