Daily Readings

1 Oh Dios, hazme justicia;
¡ponte de mi parte contra esta gente pagana!
¡Ponme a salvo del mentiroso y del malvado,
2 porque tú eres mi Dios y protector!
¿Por qué me has alejado de ti?
¿Por qué tengo que andar triste
y oprimido por mis enemigos?
3 Envía tu luz y tu verdad,
para que ellas me enseñen el camino
que lleva a tu santo monte,
al lugar donde tú vives.
4 Llegaré entonces a tu altar, oh Dios,
y allí te alabaré al son del arpa,
pues tú, mi Dios, llenas mi vida de alegría.

5     ¿Por qué voy a desanimarme?
    ¿Por qué voy a estar preocupado?
    Mi esperanza he puesto en Dios,
    a quien todavía seguiré alabando.
    ¡Él es mi Dios y Salvador!

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!

²⁷The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of humans and the seed of animals. ²⁸And just as I have watched over them to pluck up and break down, to overthrow, destroy, and bring evil, so I will watch over them to build and to plant, says the LORD. ²⁹In those days they shall no longer say:
     “The parents have eaten sour grapes,
          and the children’s teeth are set on edge.”
³⁰But all shall die for their own sins; the teeth of everyone who eats sour grapes shall be set on edge.

³¹The days are surely coming, says the LORD, when I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and the house of Judah. ³²It will not be like the covenant that I made with their ancestors when I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt — a covenant that they broke, though I was their husband, says the LORD. ³³But this is the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, says the LORD: I will put my law within them, and I will write it on their hearts; and I will be their God, and they shall be my people. ³⁴No longer shall they teach one another, or say to each other, “Know the LORD,” for they shall all know me, from the least of them to the greatest, says the LORD; for I will forgive their iniquity, and remember their sin no more.

²⁵So that you may not claim to be wiser than you are, brothers and sisters, I want you to understand this mystery: a hardening has come upon part of Israel, until the full number of the Gentiles has come in. ²⁶And so all Israel will be saved; as it is written,
”Out of Zion will come the Deliverer;
          he will banish ungodliness from Jacob.”
²⁷  “And this is my covenant with them,
          when I take away their sins.”
²⁸As regards the gospel they are enemies of God for your sake; but as regards election they are beloved, for the sake of their ancestors; ²⁹for the gifts and the calling of God are irrevocable. ³⁰Just as you were once disobedient to God but have now received mercy because of their disobedience, ³¹so they have now been disobedient in order that, by the mercy shown to you, they too may now receive mercy. ³²For God has imprisoned all in disobedience so that he may be merciful to all.

³³O the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!
³⁴  “For who has known the mind of the Lord?
          Or who has been his counselor?”
³⁵  “Or who has given a gift to him,
          to receive a gift in return?”
³⁶For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be the glory forever. Amen.

²⁸When she had said this, she went back and called her sister Mary, and told her privately, “The Teacher is here and is calling for you.” ²⁹And when she heard it, she got up quickly and went to him. ³⁰Now Jesus had not yet come to the village, but was still at the place where Martha had met him. ³¹The Jews who were with her in the house, consoling her, saw Mary get up quickly and go out. They followed her because they thought that she was going to the tomb to weep there. ³²When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.” ³³When Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her also weeping, he was greatly disturbed in spirit and deeply moved. ³⁴He said, “Where have you laid him?” They said to him, “Lord, come and see.” ³⁵Jesus began to weep. ³⁶So the Jews said, “See how he loved him!” ³⁷But some of them said, “Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?”

³⁸Then Jesus, again greatly disturbed, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone was lying against it. ³⁹Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the dead man, said to him, “Lord, already there is a stench because he has been dead for four days.” ⁴⁰Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would see the glory of God?” ⁴¹So they took away the stone. And Jesus looked upwards and said, “Father, I thank you for having heard me. ⁴²I knew that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me.” ⁴³When he had said this, he cried with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!” ⁴⁴The dead man came out, his hands and feet bound with strips of cloth, and his face wrapped in a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”

³⁷Although he had performed so many signs in their presence, they did not believe in him. ³⁸This was to fulfill the word spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
     “Lord, who has believed our message,
          and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”
³⁹And so they could not believe, because Isaiah also said,
⁴⁰  “He has blinded their eyes
          and hardened their heart,
     so that they might not look with their eyes,
          and understand with their heart and turn —
          and I would heal them.”
⁴¹Isaiah said this because he saw his glory and spoke about him. ⁴²Nevertheless many, even of the authorities, believed in him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess it, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue; ⁴³for they loved human glory more than the glory that comes from God.

⁴⁴Then Jesus cried aloud: “Whoever believes in me believes not in me but in him who sent me. ⁴⁵And whoever sees me sees him who sent me. ⁴⁶I have come as light into the world, so that everyone who believes in me should not remain in the darkness. ⁴⁷I do not judge anyone who hears my words and does not keep them, for I came not to judge the world, but to save the world. ⁴⁸The one who rejects me and does not receive my word has a judge; on the last day the word that I have spoken will serve as judge, ⁴⁹for I have not spoken on my own, but the Father who sent me has himself given me a commandment about what to say and what to speak. ⁵⁰And I know that his commandment is eternal life. What I speak, therefore, I speak just as the Father has told me.”

(1) Del maestro de coro. Salmo de David.
1 (2) Señor, en ti busco protección;
¡no me defraudes jamás!
¡Ponme a salvo, pues tú eres justo!
2 (3) Dígnate escucharme;
¡date prisa, líbrame ya!
Sé tú mi roca protectora,
¡sé tú mi castillo de refugio y salvación!
3 (4) ¡Tú eres mi roca y mi castillo!

¡Guíame y protégeme; haz honor a tu nombre!
4 (5) ¡Sácame de la trampa que me han tendido,
pues tú eres mi protector!
5 (6) En tus manos encomiendo mi espíritu;
¡rescátame, Señor, Dios de la verdad!

6 (7) Odio a los que adoran ídolos inútiles.
He puesto mi confianza en el Señor.
7 (8) Tu amor me trae gozo y alegría.
Tú has visto mis tristezas,
conoces mis aflicciones;
8 (9) no me entregaste en manos del enemigo;
¡me hiciste poner pie en lugar seguro!

9 (10) Señor, ten compasión de mí,
pues estoy en peligro.
El dolor debilita mis ojos,
mi cuerpo, ¡todo mi ser!
10 (11) ¡El dolor y los lamentos
acaban con los años de mi vida!
La tristeza acaba con mis fuerzas;
¡mi cuerpo se está debilitando!

11 (12) Soy el hazmerreír de mis enemigos,
objeto de burla de mis vecinos,
horror de quienes me conocen.
¡Huyen de mí cuantos me ven en la calle!
12 (13) Me han olvidado por completo,
como si ya estuviera muerto.
Soy como un jarro hecho pedazos.
13 (14) Puedo oír que la gente cuchichea:
«Hay terror por todas partes.»
Como un solo hombre, hacen planes contra mí;
¡hacen planes para quitarme la vida!

14 (15) Pero yo, Señor, confío en ti;
yo he dicho: «¡Tú eres mi Dios!»
15 (16) Mi vida está en tus manos;
¡líbrame de mis enemigos, que me persiguen!
16 (17) Mira con bondad a este siervo tuyo,
y sálvame, por tu amor.
17 (18) A ti clamo, Señor;
¡no me hundas en la vergüenza!
¡Hunde en la vergüenza a los malvados;
húndelos en el silencio del sepulcro!
18 (19) Queden en silencio los labios mentirosos,
que hablan con burla y desprecio,
y ofenden al hombre honrado.

19 (20) ¡Qué grande es tu bondad para aquellos que te honran!
La guardas como un tesoro
y, a la vista de los hombres,
la repartes a quienes confían en ti.
20 (21) Con la protección de tu presencia
los libras de los planes malvados del hombre;
bajo tu techo los proteges
de los insultos de sus enemigos.

21 (22) Bendito sea el Señor, que con su amor
hizo grandes cosas por mí
en momentos de angustia.
22 (23) En mi inquietud llegué a pensar
que me habías echado de tu presencia;
pero cuando te pedí ayuda,
tú escuchaste mis gritos.

23 (24) Amen al Señor, todos sus fieles.
El Señor cuida de los sinceros,
pero a los altaneros
les da con creces su merecido.
24 (25) Den ánimo y valor a sus corazones
todos los que confían en el Señor.

¹   Señor, escucha mi oración;
pon atención a mi súplica.
¡Respóndeme, pues tú eres justo y fiel!
²   No llames a cuentas a tu siervo,
porque ante ti nadie es inocente.

³   Mis enemigos me persiguen,
me han aplastado contra el suelo;
me obligan a vivir en la oscuridad,
como los que han muerto hace tiempo.
⁴   Me encuentro totalmente deprimido;
turbado tengo el corazón.

⁵   Me acuerdo de tiempos anteriores,
y pienso en todo lo que has hecho.
⁶   Hacia ti tiendo las manos,
sediento de ti, cual tierra seca.                    Selah

⁷   Señor, ¡respóndeme pronto,
pues ya se me acaba el aliento!
No me niegues tu ayuda,
porque entonces seré como los muertos.
⁸   Por la mañana hazme saber de tu amor,
porque en ti he puesto mi confianza.
Hazme saber cuál debe ser mi conducta,
porque a ti dirijo mis anhelos.

⁹   Líbrame, Señor, de mis enemigos,
porque en ti busco refugio.
¹⁰  Enséñame a hacer tu voluntad,
porque tú eres mi Dios.
¡Que tu buen espíritu me lleve
por un camino recto!

¹¹  Por tu nombre, Señor, ¡hazme vivir!
Porque eres justo, ¡sácame de la angustia!
¹²  Porque eres fiel, ¡destruye a mis enemigos!
¡destruye a todos mis enemigos, pues yo soy tu siervo!