Daily Readings

73 Tú mismo me hiciste y me formaste;
¡dame inteligencia para aprender tus mandamientos!
74 Los que te honran se alegrarán al verme,
porque he puesto mi esperanza en tu palabra.
75 Señor, yo sé que tus decretos son justos
y que tienes razón cuando me afliges.
76 ¡Que tu amor me sirva de consuelo,
conforme a la promesa que me hiciste!
77 Muéstrame tu ternura, y hazme vivir,
pues me siento feliz con tu enseñanza.
78 Sean avergonzados los insolentes
que sin razón me maltratan;
yo quiero meditar en tus preceptos.
79 Que se reúnan conmigo los que te honran,
los que conocen tus mandatos.
80 Que mi corazón sea perfecto en tus leyes,
para no tener de qué avergonzarme.

(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!

¹The LORD showed me two baskets of figs placed before the temple of the LORD. This was after King Nebuchadrezzar of Babylon had taken into exile from Jerusalem King Jeconiah son of Jehoiakim of Judah, together with the officials of Judah, the artisans, and the smiths, and had brought them to Babylon. ²One basket had very good figs, like first-ripe figs, but the other basket had very bad figs, so bad that they could not be eaten. ³And the LORD said to me, “What do you see, Jeremiah?” I said, “Figs, the good figs very good, and the bad figs very bad, so bad that they cannot be eaten.”

⁴Then the word of the LORD came to me: ⁵Thus says the LORD, the God of Israel: Like these good figs, so I will regard as good the exiles from Judah, whom I have sent away from this place to the land of the Chaldeans. ⁶I will set my eyes upon them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not pluck them up. ⁷I will give them a heart to know that I am the LORD; and they shall be my people and I will be their God, for they shall return to me with their whole heart.

⁸But thus says the LORD: Like the bad figs that are so bad they cannot be eaten, so will I treat King Zedekiah of Judah, his officials, the remnant of Jerusalem who remain in this land, and those who live in the land of Egypt. ⁹I will make them a horror, an evil thing, to all the kingdoms of the earth — a disgrace, a byword, a taunt, and a curse in all the places where I shall drive them. ¹⁰And I will send sword, famine, and pestilence upon them, until they are utterly destroyed from the land that I gave to them and their ancestors.

¹⁹You will say to me then, “Why then does he still find fault? For who can resist his will?” ²⁰But who indeed are you, a human being, to argue with God? Will what is molded say to the one who molds it, “Why have you made me like this?” ²¹Has the potter no right over the clay, to make out of the same lump one object for special use and another for ordinary use? ²²What if God, desiring to show his wrath and to make known his power, has endured with much patience the objects of wrath that are made for destruction; ²³and what if he has done so in order to make known the riches of his glory for the objects of mercy, which he has prepared beforehand for glory — ²⁴including us whom he has called, not from the Jews only but also from the Gentiles? ²⁵As indeed he says in Hosea,
     “Those who were not my people I will call ‘my people,’
          and her who was not beloved I will call ‘beloved.’”
²⁶  “And in the very place where it was said to them, ‘You are not my people,’
          there they shall be called children of the living God.”

²⁷And Isaiah cries out concerning Israel, “Though the number of the children of Israel were like the sand of the sea, only a remnant of them will be saved; ²⁸for the Lord will execute his sentence on the earth quickly and decisively.” ²⁹And as Isaiah predicted,
     “If the Lord of hosts had not left survivors to us,
          we would have fared like Sodom
          and been made like Gomorrah.”

³⁰What then are we to say? Gentiles, who did not strive for righteousness, have attained it, that is, righteousness through faith; ³¹but Israel, who did strive for the righteousness that is based on the law, did not succeed in fulfilling that law. ³²Why not? Because they did not strive for it on the basis of faith, but as if it were based on works. They have stumbled over the stumbling stone, ³³as it is written,
     “See, I am laying in Zion a stone that will make people stumble, a rock that will make them fall,
          and whoever believes in him will not be put to shame.”

¹As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth. ²His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” ³Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him. ⁴We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can work. ⁵As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ⁶When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man’s eyes, ⁷saying to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). Then he went and washed and came back able to see. ⁸The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹Some were saying, “It is he.” Others were saying, “No, but it is someone like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” ¹⁰But they kept asking him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” ¹¹He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ Then I went and washed and received my sight.” ¹²They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

¹³They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. ¹⁴Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. ¹⁵Then the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I see.” ¹⁶Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not observe the sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And they were divided. ¹⁷So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” He said, “He is a prophet.”

(1a) Cántico de las subidas.
1 (1b) Al contemplar las montañas me pregunto:
«¿De dónde vendrá mi ayuda?»
2 Mi ayuda vendrá del Señor,
creador del cielo y de la tierra.

3 ¡Nunca permitirá que resbales!
¡Nunca se dormirá el que te cuida!
4 No, él nunca duerme;
nunca duerme el que cuida de Israel.
5 El Señor es quien te cuida;
el Señor es quien te protege,
quien está junto a ti para ayudarte.
6 El sol no te hará daño de día,
ni la luna de noche.

7 El Señor te protege de todo peligro;
él protege tu vida.
8 El Señor te protege en todos tus caminos,
ahora y siempre.

(1) Del maestro de coro, con instrumentos de ocho cuerdas. Salmo de David.
6 (2) Señor,
no me reprendas en tu enojo,
no me castigues en tu furor.
2 (3) Señor, ten compasión de mí,
pues me siento sin fuerzas.
Señor, devuélveme la salud,
pues todo el cuerpo me tiembla.
3 (4) ¡Estoy temblando de miedo!
Y tú, Señor, ¿cuándo vendrás?

4 (5) Ven, Señor, ¡salva mi vida!,
¡sálvame, por tu amor!
5 (6) Nadie que esté muerto puede acordarse de ti;
¿quién podrá alabarte en el sepulcro?
6 (7) Estoy cansado de llorar.
Noche tras noche lloro tanto
que inundo de lágrimas mi almohada.
7 (8) El dolor me nubla la vista;
¡se me nubla por culpa de mis enemigos!

8 (9) ¡Apártense de mí, malhechores,
que el Señor ha escuchado mis sollozos!
9 (10) El Señor ha escuchado mis ruegos,
¡el Señor ha aceptado mi oración!
10 (11) Mis enemigos, muertos de miedo,
quedarán en ridículo;
¡en un abrir y cerrar de ojos huirán avergonzados!