Daily Readings

¹   ¡El Señor es Rey!
¡Él tiene su trono sobre los querubines!
Tiemblen las naciones, y aun la tierra entera.
²   El Señor es grande en el monte Sión;
el Señor está por encima de todos los pueblos.
³   Sea alabado su nombre, grande y terrible;
          ¡Dios es santo!
⁴   Tú eres un Rey poderoso que ama la justicia;
tú mismo estableciste la igualdad.
Has tratado a los hijos de Jacob
con justicia y rectitud.
⁵   ¡Alaben al Señor, nuestro Dios,
y arrodíllense delante de sus pies!
          ¡Dios es santo!

⁶   Moisés y Aarón están entre sus sacerdotes;
Samuel está entre los que alabaron su nombre.
El Señor les respondía
cuando ellos pedían su ayuda.
⁷   Dios habló con ellos
desde la columna de nube,
y ellos cumplieron sus mandatos
y la ley que les dio.

⁸   Señor, Dios nuestro, ¡tú les respondías!
Fuiste para ellos un Dios de perdón,
pero también castigaste sus maldades.
⁹   Alaben al Señor nuestro Dios,
¡arrodíllense ante su santo monte!
          ¡Nuestro Dios, el Señor, es santo!

12 Jerusalén, alaba al Señor;
Sión, alaba a tu Dios.
13 Pues él reforzó los cerrojos de tus puertas
y bendijo a tus hijos dentro de la ciudad.
14 Él trae la paz a tu territorio
y te satisface con lo mejor del trigo.
15 Él envía su palabra a la tierra,
y su palabra corre a toda prisa.
16 Él produce la nieve como si fuera lana,
y esparce la escarcha como si fuera polvo.
17 Él envía el hielo en forma de granizo;
con el frío que envía, el agua se congela.
18 Pero envía su palabra, y la derrite;
hace soplar el viento, y el agua corre.
19 Él dio a conocer a Jacob, a Israel,
su palabra, sus leyes y decretos.
20 No hizo lo mismo con las otras naciones,
las cuales nunca conocieron sus decretos.

¡Aleluya!

¹After the death of Moses the servant of the LORD, the LORD spoke to Joshua son of Nun, Moses’ assistant, saying, ²“My servant Moses is dead. Now proceed to cross the Jordan, you and all this people, into the land that I am giving to them, to the Israelites. ³Every place that the sole of your foot will tread upon I have given to you, as I promised to Moses. ⁴From the wilderness and the Lebanon as far as the great river, the river Euphrates, all the land of the Hittites, to the Great Sea in the west shall be your territory. ⁵No one shall be able to stand against you all the days of your life. As I was with Moses, so I will be with you; I will not fail you or forsake you. ⁶Be strong and courageous; for you shall put this people in possession of the land that I swore to their ancestors to give them. ⁷Only be strong and very courageous, being careful to act in accordance with all the law that my servant Moses commanded you; do not turn from it to the right hand or to the left, so that you may be successful wherever you go. ⁸This book of the law shall not depart out of your mouth; you shall meditate on it day and night, so that you may be careful to act in accordance with all that is written in it. For then you shall make your way prosperous, and then you shall be successful. ⁹I hereby command you: Be strong and courageous; do not be frightened or dismayed, for the LORD your God is with you wherever you go.”

^11:32And what more should I say? For time would fail me to tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, of David and Samuel and the prophets — ³³who through faith conquered kingdoms, administered justice, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, ³⁴quenched raging fire, escaped the edge of the sword, won strength out of weakness, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight. ³⁵Women received their dead by resurrection. Others were tortured, refusing to accept release, in order to obtain a better resurrection. ³⁶Others suffered mocking and flogging, and even chains and imprisonment. ³⁷They were stoned to death, they were sawn in two, they were killed by the sword; they went about in skins of sheep and goats, destitute, persecuted, tormented — ³⁸of whom the world was not worthy. They wandered in deserts and mountains, and in caves and holes in the ground.

³⁹Yet all these, though they were commended for their faith, did not receive what was promised, ⁴⁰since God had provided something better so that they would not, apart from us, be made perfect.

^12:1Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight and the sin that clings so closely, and let us run with perseverance the race that is set before us, ²looking to Jesus the pioneer and perfecter of our faith, who for the sake of the joy that was set before him endured the cross, disregarding its shame, and has taken his seat at the right hand of the throne of God.

¹“I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinegrower. ²He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit. Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit. ³You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to you. ⁴Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless you abide in me. ⁵I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you can do nothing. ⁶Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the fire, and burned. ⁷If you abide in me, and my words abide in you, ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. ⁸My Father is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my disciples. ⁹As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you; abide in my love. ¹⁰If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love, just as I have kept my Father’s commandments and abide in his love. ¹¹I have said these things to you so that my joy may be in you, and that your joy may be complete.

¹²"This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you. ¹³No one has greater love than this, to lay down one’s life for one’s friends. ¹⁴You are my friends if you do what I command you. ¹⁵I do not call you servants any longer, because the servant does not know what the master is doing; but I have called you friends, because I have made known to you everything that I have heard from my Father. ¹⁶You did not choose me but I chose you. And I appointed you to go and bear fruit, fruit that will last, so that the Father will give you whatever you ask him in my name.”

1   Canten al Señor una canción nueva;
          canten al Señor, habitantes de toda la tierra;
2   canten al Señor, bendigan su nombre;
          anuncien día tras día su salvación.
3   Hablen de su gloria y de sus maravillas
          ante todos los pueblos y naciones,
4   porque el Señor es grande
          y muy digno de alabanza:
          ¡más terrible que todos los dioses!
5   Los dioses de otros pueblos no son nada,
          pero el Señor hizo los cielos.
6   ¡Hay gran esplendor en su presencia!
          ¡Hay poder y belleza en su santuario!

7   Den al Señor, familias de los pueblos,
          den al Señor el poder y la gloria;
8   den al Señor la honra que merece;
          entren a sus atrios con ofrendas,
9   adoren al Señor en su hermoso santuario.
          ¡Que todo el mundo tiemble delante de él!

10  Digan a las naciones: "¡El Señor es Rey!"
          Él afirmó el mundo, para que no se mueva;
          él gobierna a los pueblos con igualdad.
11  ¡Que se alegren los cielos y la tierra!
          ¡Que brame el mar y todo lo que contiene!
12  ¡Que se alegre el campo y todo lo que hay en él!
          ¡Que griten de alegría los árboles del bosque,
13  delante del Señor, que viene!
          ¡Sí, él viene a gobernar la tierra,
          y gobernará a los pueblos del mundo
          con justicia y con verdad!

(1a) Salmo de David.
1 (1b) El Señor dijo a mi señor:
«Siéntate a mi derecha,
hasta que yo haga de tus enemigos
el estrado de tus pies.»

2 Desde Sión, el Señor te entrega
el cetro, símbolo de tu poder.
¡Domina, pues, a tus enemigos!
3 Tu pueblo se te entrega
en el día de tu victoria.
Sobre los montes santos,
y como el rocío que nace de la aurora,
tu juventud se renueva de día en día.

4 El Señor ha hecho un juramento,
y no va a desdecirse:
«Tú eres sacerdote para siempre,
de la misma clase que Melquisedec.»

5 El Señor está a tu mano derecha;
en el día de su furor, destruirá reyes;
6 dictará sentencia contra las naciones;
amontonará cadáveres;
¡estrellará cabezas en toda la tierra!
7 En el camino, beberá agua de un arroyo,
y el agua le dará nuevas fuerzas.