Daily Readings

1   ¡Qué alegría cuando me dicen:
          "Vamos al templo del Señor"!
2   Jerusalén,
          ¡ya estamos dentro de tus puertas!

3   Jerusalén, ciudad construida
          para que en ella se reúna la comunidad.
4   A ella vienen las tribus del Señor
          para alabar su nombre,
          como se le ordenó a Israel.
5   En ella están los tribunales de justicia,
          los tribunales de la casa real de David.

6   Digan ustedes de corazón:
          "Que haya paz en ti, Jerusalén;
          que vivan tranquilos los que te aman.
7       Que haya paz en tus murallas;
          que haya seguridad en tus palacios."

8   Y ahora, por mis hermanos y amigos diré:
          "Que haya paz en ti.
9       Por el templo del Señor nuestro Dios,
          procuraré tu bien."

1 ¡Aleluya!

Canten al Señor un canto nuevo;
alábenlo en la comunidad de los fieles.
2 Alégrense los israelitas, el pueblo de Sión,
porque Dios es su Creador y Rey.
3 Alaben su nombre con danzas,
cántenle himnos al son de arpas y panderos.
4 Porque el Señor se complace en su pueblo;
da a los humildes el honor de la victoria.
5 Alégrense los fieles con el triunfo,
y aun dormidos canten de alegría.
6 Haya alabanzas a Dios en sus labios,
y en su mano una espada de dos filos
7 para vengarse de los paganos,
para castigar a las naciones,
8 para encadenar a los reyes y gente poderosa
con pesadas cadenas de hierro,
9 para cumplir en ellos la sentencia escrita.
¡Esto será una honra para todos sus fieles!

¡Aleluya!

² Moses summoned all Israel and said to them: You have seen all that the LORD did before your eyes in the land of Egypt, to Pharaoh and to all his servants and to all his land, ³ the great trials that your eyes saw, the signs, and those great wonders. ⁴ But to this day the LORD has not given you a mind to understand, or eyes to see, or ears to hear. ⁵ I have led you forty years in the wilderness. The clothes on your back have not worn out, and the sandals on your feet have not worn out; ⁶ you have not eaten bread, and you have not drunk wine or strong drink - so that you may know that I am the LORD your God. ⁷ When you came to this place, King Sihon of Heshbon and King Og of Bashan came out against us for battle, but we defeated them. ⁸ We took their land and gave it as an inheritance to the Reubenites, the Gadites, and the half-tribe of Manasseh. ⁹ Therefore diligently observe the words of this covenant, in order that you may succeed in everything that you do.

¹⁰ You stand assembled today, all of you, before the LORD your God - the leaders of your tribes, your elders, and your officials, all the men of Israel, ¹¹ your children, your women, and the aliens who are in your camp, both those who cut your wood and those who draw your water - ¹² to enter into the covenant of the LORD your God, sworn by an oath, which the LORD your God is making with you today; ¹³ in order that he may establish you today as his people, and that he may be your God, as he promised you and as he swore to your ancestors, to Abraham, to Isaac, and to Jacob. ¹⁴ I am making this covenant, sworn by an oath, not only with you who stand here with us today before the LORD our God, ¹⁵ but also with those who are not here with us today.

¹ Now it is not necessary for me to write you about the ministry to the saints, ² for I know your eagerness, which is the subject of my boasting about you to the people of Macedonia, saying that Achaia has been ready since last year; and your zeal has stirred up most of them. ³ But I am sending the brothers in order that our boasting about you may not prove to have been empty in this case, so that you may be ready, as I said you would be; ⁴ otherwise, if some Macedonians come with me and find that you are not ready, we would be humiliated - to say nothing of you - in this undertaking. ⁵ So I thought it necessary to urge the brothers to go on ahead to you, and arrange in advance for this bountiful gift that you have promised, so that it may be ready as a voluntary gift and not as an extortion.

⁶ The point is this: the one who sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and the one who sows bountifully will also reap bountifully. ⁷ Each of you must give as you have made up your mind, not reluctantly or under compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. ⁸ And God is able to provide you with every blessing in abundance, so that by always having enough of everything, you may share abundantly in every good work. ⁹ As it is written, "He scatters abroad, he gives to the poor; his righteousness endures forever." ¹⁰ He who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will supply and multiply your seed for sowing and increase the harvest of your righteousness. ¹¹ You will be enriched in every way for your great generosity, which will produce thanksgiving to God through us; ¹² for the rendering of this ministry not only supplies the needs of the saints but also overflows with many thanksgivings to God. ¹³ Through the testing of this ministry you glorify God by your obedience to the confession of the gospel of Christ and by the generosity of your sharing with them and with all others, ¹⁴ while they long for you and pray for you because of the surpassing grace of God that he has given you. ¹⁵ Thanks be to God for his indescribable gift!

¹⁵People were bringing even infants to him that he might touch them; and when the disciples saw it, they sternly ordered them not to do it. ¹⁶But Jesus called for them and said, "Let the little children come to me, and do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. ¹⁷Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it."

¹⁸A certain ruler asked him, "Good Teacher, what must I do to inherit eternal life?" ¹⁹Jesus said to him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone. ²⁰You know the commandments: 'You shall not commit adultery; You shall not murder; You shall not steal; You shall not bear false witness; Honor your father and mother.'" ²¹He replied, "I have kept all these since my youth." ²²When Jesus heard this, he said to him, "There is still one thing lacking. Sell all that you own and distribute the money to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven; then come, follow me." ²³But when he heard this, he became sad; for he was very rich. ²⁴Jesus looked at him and said, "How hard it is for those who have wealth to enter the kingdom of God! ²⁵Indeed, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God."

²⁶Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?" ²⁷He replied, "What is impossible for mortals is possible for God."

²⁸Then Peter said, "Look, we have left our homes and followed you." ²⁹And he said to them, "Truly I tell you, there is no one who has left house or wife or brothers or parents or children, for the sake of the kingdom of God, ³⁰who will not get back very much more in this age, and in the age to come eternal life."

1   ¡Canten al Señor con alegría,
          habitantes de toda la tierra!
2   Con alegría adoren al Señor;
          ¡con gritos de alegría vengan a su presencia!

3   Reconozcan que el Señor es Dios;
          él nos hizo y somos suyos;
          ¡somos pueblo suyo y ovejas de su prado!

4   Vengan a las puertas y a los atrios de su templo
          con himnos de alabanza y gratitud.
          ¡Denle gracias, bendigan su nombre!

5   Porque el Señor es bueno;
          su amor es eterno
          y su fidelidad no tiene fin.

(1) Salmo de David, cuando estaba en el desierto de Judá.
1 (2) ¡Dios mío, tú eres mi Dios!
Con ansias te busco, pues tengo sed de ti;
mi ser entero te desea,
cual tierra árida, sedienta, sin agua.
2 (3) ¡Quiero verte en tu santuario,
y contemplar tu poder y tu gloria,
3 (4) pues tu amor vale más que la vida!
Con mis labios te alabaré;
4 (5) toda mi vida te bendeciré,
y a ti levantaré mis manos en oración.
5 (6) Quedaré muy satisfecho,
como el que disfruta de un banquete delicioso,
y mis labios te alabarán con alegría.

6 (7) Por las noches, ya acostado,
te recuerdo y pienso en ti;
7 (8) pues tú eres quien me ayuda.
¡Soy feliz bajo tus alas!
8 (9) Mi vida entera está unida a ti;
tu mano derecha no me suelta.
9 (10) Los que tratan de matarme
caerán al fondo del sepulcro;
10 (11) ¡morirán a filo de espada
y serán devorados por los lobos!
11 (12) Pero el rey se alegrará en Dios;
cantarán alabanzas todos los que juran por él,
pero a los que mienten se les tapará la boca.