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!

¹   Listen to me, you that pursue righteousness,
          you that seek the LORD.
     Look to the rock from which you were hewn,
          and to the quarry from which you were dug.
²   Look to Abraham your father
          and to Sarah who bore you;
     for he was but one when I called him,
          but I blessed him and made him many.
³   For the LORD will comfort Zion;
          he will comfort all her waste places,
     and will make her wilderness like Eden,
          her desert like the garden of the LORD;
     joy and gladness will be found in her,
          thanksgiving and the voice of song.

⁴   Listen to me, my people,
          and give heed to me, my nation;
     for a teaching will go out from me,
          and my justice for a light to the peoples.
⁵   I will bring near my deliverance swiftly,
          my salvation has gone out
          and my arms will rule the peoples;
     the coastlands wait for me,
          and for my arm they hope.
⁶   Lift up your eyes to the heavens,
          and look at the earth beneath;
     for the heavens will vanish like smoke,
          the earth will wear out like a garment,
          and those who live on it will die like gnats;
     but my salvation will be forever,
          and my deliverance will never be ended.

⁷   Listen to me, you who know righteousness,
          you people who have my teaching in your hearts;
     do not fear the reproach of others,
          and do not be dismayed when they revile you.
⁸   For the moth will eat them up like a garment,
          and the worm will eat them like wool;
     but my deliverance will be forever,
          and my salvation to all generations.

²³Now before faith came, we were imprisoned and guarded under the law until faith would be revealed. ²⁴Therefore the law was our disciplinarian until Christ came, so that we might be justified by faith. ²⁵But now that faith has come, we are no longer subject to a disciplinarian, ²⁶for in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith. ²⁷As many of you as were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. ²⁸There is no longer Jew or Greek, there is no longer slave or free, there is no longer male and female; for all of you are one in Christ Jesus. ²⁹And if you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham's offspring, heirs according to the promise.

¹Now when the Pharisees and some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem gathered around him, ²they noticed that some of his disciples were eating with defiled hands, that is, without washing them. ³(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they thoroughly wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders; ⁴and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash it; and there are also many other traditions that they observe, the washing of cups, pots, and bronze kettles.) ⁵So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?” ⁶He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,
     ‘This people honors me with their lips,
          but their hearts are far from me;
⁷   in vain do they worship me,
          teaching human precepts as doctrines.’
⁸You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”

⁹Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition! ¹⁰For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’ ¹¹But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban’ (that is, an offering to God) — ¹²then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother, ¹³thus making void the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.”

¹⁴Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: ¹⁵there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.”

¹⁷When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable. ¹⁸He said to them, “Then do you also fail to understand? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile, ¹⁹since it enters, not the heart but the stomach, and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.) ²⁰And he said, “It is what comes out of a person that defiles. ²¹For it is from within, from the human heart, that evil intentions come: fornication, theft, murder, ²²adultery, avarice, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness, envy, slander, pride, folly. ²³All these evil things come from within, and they defile a person.”

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.