Daily Readings

(1) Del maestro de coro. «No destruyas». Poema de David, cuando huyó de Saúl y se escondió en la cueva.
1 (2) Ten compasión de mí, Dios mío, ten compasión de mí,
pues en ti busco protección.
Quiero protegerme debajo de tus alas
hasta que el peligro haya pasado.
2 (3) Voy a clamar al Dios altísimo,
al Dios que en todo me ayuda.
3 (4) Él enviará desde el cielo su amor y su verdad,
y me salvará de quienes con rabia me persiguen.

4 (5) Tendido estoy, por el suelo,
entre leones que se comen a la gente;
sus dientes son como lanzas y flechas,
su lengua es una espada afilada.

5 (6) Dios mío, tú estás por encima del cielo.
    ¡Tu gloria llena toda la tierra!

6 (7) Mis enemigos me pusieron una trampa
para doblegar mi ánimo;
hicieron un hoyo a mi paso,
pero ellos mismos cayeron en él.

7 (8) Mi corazón está dispuesto, Dios mío,
mi corazón está dispuesto a cantarte himnos.
8 (9) Despierta, alma mía;
despierten, arpa y salterio;
¡despertaré al nuevo día!
9 (10) Te alabaré con himnos, Señor,
en medio de pueblos y naciones.
10 (11) Pues tu amor es grande hasta los cielos;
tu lealtad alcanza al cielo azul.

11 (12) Dios mío, tú estás por encima del cielo.
    ¡Tu gloria llena toda la tierra!

(1a) Alabanza de David.
1 (1b) Hablaré de tu grandeza, mi Dios y Rey;
bendeciré tu nombre por siempre.
2 Diariamente te bendeciré;
alabaré tu nombre por siempre.
3 El Señor es grande y muy digno de alabanza;
su grandeza excede nuestro entendimiento.

4 De padres a hijos se alabarán tus obras,
se anunciarán tus hechos poderosos.
5 Se hablará de tu majestad gloriosa,
y yo hablaré de tus maravillas.
6 Se hablará de tus hechos poderosos y terribles,
y yo hablaré de tu grandeza.
7 Se hablará de tu bondad inmensa,
y a gritos se dirá que tú eres justo.

8 El Señor es tierno y compasivo,
es paciente y todo amor.
9 El Señor es bueno para con todos,
y con ternura cuida sus obras.

10 ¡Que te alaben, Señor, todas tus obras!
¡Que te bendigan tus fieles!
11 ¡Que hablen del esplendor de tu reino!
¡Que hablen de tus hechos poderosos!
12 ¡Que se haga saber a los hombres tu poder
y el gran esplendor de tu reino!
13 Tu reino es un reino eterno,
tu dominio es por todos los siglos.

14 El Señor sostiene a los que caen
y levanta a los que desfallecen.
15 Los ojos de todos esperan de ti
que tú les des su comida a su tiempo.
16 Abres tu mano, y con tu buena voluntad
satisfaces a todos los seres vivos.
17 El Señor es justo en sus caminos,
bondadoso en sus acciones.
18 El Señor está cerca de los que lo invocan,
de los que lo invocan con sinceridad.
19 Él cumple los deseos de los que lo honran;
cuando le piden ayuda, los oye y los salva.
20 El Señor protege a los que lo aman,
pero destruye a los malvados.

21 ¡Que mis labios alaben al Señor!
¡Que todos bendigan su santo nombre,
ahora y siempre!

¹   Hear this, O house of Jacob,
          who are called by the name of Israel,
          and who came forth from the loins of Judah;
     who swear by the name of the LORD,
          and invoke the God of Israel,
          but not in truth or right.
²   For they call themselves after the holy city,
          and lean on the God of Israel;
          the LORD of hosts is his name.

³   The former things I declared long ago,
          they went out from my mouth and I made them known;
          then suddenly I did them and they came to pass.
⁴   Because I know that you are obstinate,
          and your neck is an iron sinew
          and your forehead brass,
⁵   I declared them to you from long ago,
          before they came to pass I announced them to you,
     so that you would not say, “My idol did them,
          my carved image and my cast image commanded them.”

⁶   You have heard; now see all this;
          and will you not declare it?
     From this time forward I make you hear new things,
          hidden things that you have not known.
⁷   They are created now, not long ago;
          before today you have never heard of them,
          so that you could not say, “I already knew them.”
⁸   You have never heard, you have never known,
          from of old your ear has not been opened.
     For I knew that you would deal very treacherously,
          and that from birth you were called a rebel.

⁹   For my name’s sake I defer my anger,
          for the sake of my praise I restrain it for you,
          so that I may not cut you off.
¹⁰   See, I have refined you, but not like silver;
          I have tested you in the furnace of adversity.
¹¹   For my own sake, for my own sake, I do it,
          for why should my name be profaned?
          My glory I will not give to another.

¹Paul an apostle — sent neither by human commission nor from human authorities, but through Jesus Christ and God the Father, who raised him from the dead — ²and all the members of God’s family who are with me,

To the churches of Galatia:

³Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ,⁴who gave himself for our sins to set us free from the present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father, ⁵to whom be the glory forever and ever. Amen.

⁶I am astonished that you are so quickly deserting the one who called you in the grace of Christ and are turning to a different gospel — ⁷not that there is another gospel, but there are some who are confusing you and want to pervert the gospel of Christ. ⁸But even if we or an angel from heaven should proclaim to you a gospel contrary to what we proclaimed to you, let that one be accursed! ⁹As we have said before, so now I repeat, if anyone proclaims to you a gospel contrary to what you received, let that one be accursed!

¹⁰Am I now seeking human approval, or God’s approval? Or am I trying to please people? If I were still pleasing people, I would not be a servant of Christ.

¹¹For I want you to know, brothers and sisters, that the gospel that was proclaimed by me is not of human origin; ¹²for I did not receive it from a human source, nor was I taught it, but I received it through a revelation of Jesus Christ.

¹³You have heard, no doubt, of my earlier life in Judaism. I was violently persecuting the church of God and was trying to destroy it. ¹⁴I advanced in Judaism beyond many among my people of the same age, for I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors. ¹⁵But when God, who had set me apart before I was born and called me through his grace, was pleased ¹⁶to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him among the Gentiles, I did not confer with any human being, ¹⁷nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were already apostles before me, but I went away at once into Arabia, and afterwards I returned to Damascus.

²¹When Jesus had crossed again in the boat to the other side, a great crowd gathered around him; and he was by the sea. ²²Then one of the leaders of the synagogue named Jairus came and, when he saw him, fell at his feet ²³and begged him repeatedly, “My little daughter is at the point of death. Come and lay your hands on her, so that she may be made well, and live.” ²⁴So he went with him.

And a large crowd followed him and pressed in on him. ²⁵Now there was a woman who had been suffering from hemorrhages for twelve years. ²⁶She had endured much under many physicians, and had spent all that she had; and she was no better, but rather grew worse. ²⁷She had heard about Jesus, and came up behind him in the crowd and touched his cloak, ²⁸for she said, “If I but touch his clothes, I will be made well.” ²⁹Immediately her hemorrhage stopped; and she felt in her body that she was healed of her disease. ³⁰Immediately aware that power had gone forth from him, Jesus turned about in the crowd and said, “Who touched my clothes?” ³¹And his disciples said to him, “You see the crowd pressing in on you; how can you say, ‘Who touched me?’” ³²He looked all around to see who had done it. ³³But the woman, knowing what had happened to her, came in fear and trembling, fell down before him, and told him the whole truth. ³⁴He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well; go in peace, and be healed of your disease.”

³⁵While he was still speaking, some people came from the leader’s house to say, “Your daughter is dead. Why trouble the teacher any further?” ³⁶But overhearing what they said, Jesus said to the leader of the synagogue, “Do not fear, only believe.” ³⁷He allowed no one to follow him except Peter, James, and John, the brother of James. ³⁸When they came to the house of the leader of the synagogue, he saw a commotion, people weeping and wailing loudly. ³⁹When he had entered, he said to them, “Why do you make a commotion and weep? The child is not dead but sleeping.” ⁴⁰And they laughed at him. Then he put them all outside, and took the child’s father and mother and those who were with him, and went in where the child was. ⁴¹He took her by the hand and said to her, “Talitha cum,” which means, “Little girl, get up!” ⁴²And immediately the girl got up and began to walk about (she was twelve years of age). At this they were overcome with amazement. ⁴³He strictly ordered them that no one should know this, and told them to give her something to eat.

(1) Del maestro de coro. Salmo de los hijos de Coré.
1 (2) Señor,
tú has sido muy bueno con este país tuyo;
has cambiado la suerte de Jacob;
2 (3) has perdonado la maldad de tu pueblo
y todos sus pecados;
3 (4) has calmado por completo
tu enojo y tu furor.

4 (5) Dios y Salvador nuestro,
¡sálvanos también ahora
y no sigas enojado con nosotros!
5 (6) ¿Acaso vas a prolongar por siempre
tu enojo contra nosotros?
6 (7) ¿No volverás a darnos vida,
para que tu pueblo se alegre por ti?
7 (8) Oh Señor,
¡muéstranos tu amor, y sálvanos!

8 (9) Escucharé lo que el Señor va a decir;
pues va a hablar de paz a su pueblo,
a los que le son fieles,
para que no vuelvan a hacer locuras.
9 (10) En verdad, Dios está muy cerca,
para salvar a los que le honran;
su gloria vivirá en nuestra tierra.

10 (11) El amor y la verdad se darán cita,
la paz y la justicia se besarán,
11 (12) la verdad brotará de la tierra
y la justicia mirará desde el cielo.
12 (13) El Señor mismo traerá la lluvia,
y nuestra tierra dará su fruto.
13 (14) La justicia irá delante de él,
y le preparará el camino.

(1) Del maestro de coro. Salmo de los hijos de Coré.
1 (2) ¡Aplaudan, pueblos todos!
¡Aclamen a Dios con gritos de alegría!
2 (3) Porque el Señor, el Altísimo, es terrible;
es el gran Rey de toda la tierra.
3 (4) Destrozó pueblos y naciones
y los sometió a nuestro yugo.
4 (5) Nos ha escogido nuestra herencia,
que es orgullo de Jacob, a quien amó.

5 (6) ¡Dios el Señor ha subido a su trono
entre gritos de alegría y toques de trompeta!
6 (7) ¡Canten, canten himnos a Dios!
¡Canten, canten himnos a nuestro Rey!
7 (8) ¡Canten un poema a Dios,
porque él es el Rey de toda la tierra!
8 (9) ¡Dios es el Rey de las naciones!
¡Dios está sentado en su santo trono!
9 (10a) Los hombres importantes de las naciones
se unen al pueblo del Dios de Abraham,
10 (10b) pues de Dios son los poderes del mundo.
¡Él está por encima de todo!