Daily Readings

1   ¡Cuán hermoso es tu santuario,
          Señor todopoderoso!
2   ¡Con qué ansia y fervor
          deseo estar en los atrios de tu templo!
     ¡Con todo el corazón
          canto alegre al Dios de la vida!

3   Aun el gorrión y la golondrina
          hallan lugar en tus altares
          donde hacerles nido a sus polluelos,
     oh Señor todopoderoso,
          Rey mío y Dios mío.
4   ¡Felices los que viven en tu templo
          y te alaban sin cesar! Selah

5   ¡Felices los que en ti encuentran ayuda,
          los que desean peregrinar hasta tu monte!
6   Cuando pasen por el valle de las Lágrimas
          lo convertirán en manantial,
          y aun la lluvia lo llenará de bendiciones;
7   Irán sus fuerzas en aumento,
          y en Sión verán al Dios supremo.

8   Señor, Dios todopoderoso,
          Dios de Jacob,
          ¡escucha mi oración! Selah
9   Mira, oh Dios, con buenos ojos
          a aquel que es nuestro escudo,
          a quien tú has escogido como rey.

10   ¡Más vale estar un día en tus atrios,
          que mil fuera de ellos!
     Prefiero ser portero del templo de mi Dios,
          que vivir en lugares de maldad.
11   Porque Dios el Señor nos alumbra y nos protege;
          el Señor ama y honra a los que viven sin tacha,
          y nada bueno les niega.

12   Señor todopoderoso,
          ¡felices los que en ti confían!

1 ¡Aleluya!

¡Alaben a Dios en su santuario!
¡Alábenlo en su majestuosa bóveda celeste!
2 ¡Alábenlo por sus hechos poderosos!
¡Alábenlo por su grandeza infinita!
3 ¡Alábenlo con toques de trompeta!
¡Alábenlo con arpa y salterio!
4 ¡Alábenlo danzando al son de panderos!
¡Alábenlo con flautas e instrumentos de cuerda!
5 ¡Alábenlo con platillos sonoros!
¡Alábenlo con platillos vibrantes!
6 ¡Que todo lo que respira alabe al Señor!

¡Aleluya!

⁹   Thus says the LORD of hosts:
     Glean thoroughly as a vine
          the remnant of Israel;
     like a grape-gatherer, pass your hand again
          over its branches.

¹⁰  To whom shall I speak and give warning,
          that they may hear?
     See, their ears are closed,
          they cannot listen.
     The word of the LORD is to them an object of scorn;
          they take no pleasure in it.
¹¹  But I am full of the wrath of the LORD;
          I am weary of holding it in.

     Pour it out on the children in the street,
          and on the gatherings of young men as well;
     both husband and wife shall be taken,
          the old folk and the very aged.
¹²  Their houses shall be turned over to others,
          their fields and wives together;
     for I will stretch out my hand
          against the inhabitants of the land,
                                                  says the LORD.

¹³  For from the least to the greatest of them,
          everyone is greedy for unjust gain;
          and from prophet to priest,
          everyone deals falsely.
¹⁴  They have treated the wound of my people carelessly,
          saying, “Peace, peace,”
          when there is no peace.
¹⁵  They acted shamefully, they committed abomination;
          yet they were not ashamed,
          they did not know how to blush.
     Therefore they shall fall among those who fall;
          at the time that I punish them, they shall be overthrown,
                                                  says the LORD.

¹²“All things are lawful for me,” but not all things are beneficial. “All things are lawful for me,” but I will not be dominated by anything. ¹³“Food is meant for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will destroy both one and the other. The body is meant not for fornication but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body. ¹⁴And God raised the Lord and will also raise us by his power. ¹⁵Do you not know that your bodies are members of Christ? Should I therefore take the members of Christ and make them members of a prostitute? Never! ¹⁶Do you not know that whoever is united to a prostitute becomes one body with her? For it is said, “The two shall be one flesh.” ¹⁷But anyone united to the Lord becomes one spirit with him. ¹⁸Shun fornication! Every sin that a person commits is outside the body; but the fornicator sins against the body itself. ¹⁹Or do you not know that your body is a temple of the Holy Spirit within you, which you have from God, and that you are not your own? ²⁰For you were bought with a price; therefore glorify God in your body.

¹They came to the other side of the lake, to the country of the Gerasenes. ²And when he had stepped out of the boat, immediately a man out of the tombs with an unclean spirit met him. ³He lived among the tombs; and no one could restrain him any more, even with a chain; ⁴for he had often been restrained with shackles and chains, but the chains he wrenched apart, and the shackles he broke in pieces; and no one had the strength to subdue him. ⁵Night and day among the tombs and on the mountains he was always howling and bruising himself with stones. ⁶When he saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and bowed down before him; ⁷and he shouted at the top of his voice, “What have you to do with me, Jesus, Son of the Most High God? I adjure you by God, do not torment me.” ⁸For he had said to him, “Come out of the man, you unclean spirit!” ⁹Then Jesus asked him, “What is your name?” He replied, “My name is Legion; for we are many.” ¹⁰He begged him earnestly not to send them out of the country. ¹¹Now there on the hillside a great herd of swine was feeding; ¹²and the unclean spirits begged him, “Send us into the swine; let us enter them.” ¹³So he gave them permission. And the unclean spirits came out and entered the swine; and the herd, numbering about two thousand, rushed down the steep bank into the lake, and were drowned in the lake.

¹⁴The swineherds ran off and told it in the city and in the country. Then people came to see what it was that had happened. ¹⁵They came to Jesus and saw the demoniac sitting there, clothed and in his right mind, the very man who had had the legion; and they were afraid. ¹⁶Those who had seen what had happened to the demoniac and to the swine reported it. ¹⁷Then they began to beg Jesus to leave their neighborhood. ¹⁸As he was getting into the boat, the man who had been possessed by demons begged him that he might be with him. ¹⁹But Jesus refused, and said to him, “Go home to your friends, and tell them how much the Lord has done for you, and what mercy he has shown you.” ²⁰And he went away and began to proclaim in the Decapolis how much Jesus had done for him; and everyone was amazed.

1   Como ciervo sediento en busca de un río,
          así, Dios mío, te busco a ti.
2   Tengo sed de Dios,
          del Dios de la vida.
     ¿Cuándo volveré a presentarme
          ante Dios?
3   Día y noche, mis lágrimas son mi alimento
          mientras a todas horas me preguntan:
     "¿Dónde está tu Dios?"

4   Estas cosas recuerdo
          al dar rienda suelta a mi dolor:
     cómo marchaba con la multitud
          conduciéndola al templo de Dios,
     entre gritos de alegría y gratitud,
          una multitud en fiesta.
5   ¿Por qué voy a desanimarme, oh alma mía,
          y por qué estar turbada dentro de mí?
     Espera en Dios, pues aún he de alabarlo,
          mi salvación y mi Dios.

6   Mi alma está abatida dentro de mí;
          por eso me acuerdo de ti
     desde la tierra del Jordán y del Hermón,
          desde el monte Misar.
7   Un abismo llama a otro
          al estruendo de tus cascadas;
     todas tus ondas y tus olas
          han pasado sobre mí.
8   De día el Señor mandará su misericordia,
          y de noche su canto estará conmigo,
          una oración al Dios de mi vida.

9   Diré a Dios, mi roca:
          "¿Por qué me has olvidado?
     ¿Por qué he de andar lamentándome
          oprimido por el enemigo?"
10  Como quien tiene herida mortal en los huesos,
          mis adversarios me afrentan,
     mientras me dicen constantemente:
          "¿Dónde está tu Dios?"

11  ¿Por qué voy a desanimarme, oh alma mía,
          y por qué estar turbada dentro de mí?
     Espera en Dios, pues aún he de alabarlo,
          mi salvación y mi Dios.

1 Feliz el hombre a quien sus culpas y pecados
le han sido perdonados por completo.
2 Feliz el hombre que no es mal intencionado
y a quien el Señor no acusa de falta alguna.

3 Mientras no confesé mi pecado,
mi cuerpo iba decayendo
por mi gemir de todo el día,
4 pues de día y de noche
tu mano pesaba sobre mí.
Como flor marchita por el calor del verano,
así me sentía decaer.

5 Pero te confesé sin reservas
mi pecado y mi maldad;
decidí confesarte mis pecados,
y tú, Señor, los perdonaste.

6 Por eso, en momentos de angustia
los fieles te invocarán,
y aunque las aguas caudalosas se desborden,
no llegarán hasta ellos.
7 Tú eres mi refugio:
me proteges del peligro,
me rodeas de gritos de liberación.

8 El Señor dice:
«Mis ojos están puestos en ti.
Yo te daré instrucciones,
te daré consejos,
te enseñaré el camino que debes seguir.
9 No seas como el mulo o el caballo,
que no pueden entender
y hay que detener su brío
con el freno y con la rienda,
pues de otra manera no se acercan a ti.»

10 Los malvados tendrán muchos dolores,
pero el amor del Señor envuelve
a los que en él confían.
11 Alégrense en el Señor,
hombres buenos y honrados;
¡alégrense y griten de alegría!