Psalm 45

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Your Throne, O God, Is Forever

To the choirmaster: according to Lilies. A Maskil^[a] of ^(A)the Sons of Korah; a love song.

45 My heart overflows with a pleasing theme;
I address my verses to the king;
my tongue is like the pen of ^(B)a ready scribe.

²You are ^(C)the most handsome of the sons of men;
    ^(D)grace is poured upon your lips;
    therefore God has blessed you forever.
³^(E)Gird your ^(F)sword on your thigh, O ^(G)mighty one,
    in ^(H)your splendor and majesty!

⁴In your majesty ^(I)ride out victoriously
    for the cause of truth and meekness and righteousness;
    let your right hand teach you ^(J)awesome deeds!
⁵Your arrows are sharp
    in the heart of the king's enemies;
    the peoples fall under you.

⁶^(K)Your throne, O God, is forever and ever.
    The ^(L)scepter of your kingdom is a scepter of uprightness;
⁷    ^(M)you have loved righteousness and hated wickedness.
Therefore ^(N)God, your God, has ^(O)anointed you
    with the oil of ^(P)gladness ^(Q)beyond your companions;
⁸    your robes are all fragrant with ^(R)myrrh and aloes and cassia.
From ivory palaces ^(S)stringed instruments make you glad;
⁹    daughters of kings are among your ladies of honor;
    ^(T)at your right hand stands the queen in ^(U)gold of Ophir.

¹⁰Hear, O daughter, and consider, and incline your ear:
    forget your people and your father's house,
¹¹    and the king will desire your beauty.
Since he is your ^(V)lord, ^(W)bow to him.
¹²    The people^[b] of Tyre will ^(X)seek your favor with ^(Y)gifts,
    ^(Z)the richest of the people.^[c]

¹³All glorious is ^(AA)the princess in her chamber, with robes interwoven with gold.
¹⁴    ^(AB)In many-colored robes ^(AC)she is led to the king,
    with her virgin companions following behind her.
¹⁵With joy and gladness they are led along
    as they enter the palace of the king.

¹⁶In place of your fathers shall be your sons;
you will make them ^(AD)princes in all the earth.
¹⁷^(AE)I will cause your name to be remembered in all generations;
therefore nations will praise you forever and ever.

Notas al pie

Psalm 45:1 Probably a musical or liturgical term
Psalm 45:12 Hebrew daughter
Psalm 45:12 Or The daughter of Tyre is here with gifts, the richest of people seek your favor

Isaiah 48:12-21

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The Lord's Call to Israel

¹²“Listen to me, O Jacob,
    and Israel, whom I called!
I am he; ^(A)I am the first,
    and I am the last.
¹³My hand ^(B)laid the foundation of the earth,
    and my right hand ^(C)spread out the heavens;
^(D)when I call to them,
    they stand forth together.

¹⁴“Assemble, all of you, and listen!
    ^(E)Who among them has declared these things?
The Lord loves him;
    ^(F)he shall perform his purpose on Babylon,
    and his arm shall be against ^(G)the Chaldeans.
¹⁵^(H)I, even I, have spoken and called him;
    I have brought him, and he will prosper in his way.
¹⁶^(I)Draw near to me, hear this:
    from the beginning I have not spoken in secret,
    from the time it came to be I have been there.”
And now ^(J)the Lord God has sent me, and his Spirit.

¹⁷Thus says the Lord,
    your Redeemer, the Holy One of Israel:
“I am the Lord your God,
    who teaches you to profit,
    who leads you in the way you should go.
¹⁸^(K)Oh that you had paid attention to my commandments!
    ^(L)Then your peace would have been like a river,
    and your righteousness like the waves of the sea;
¹⁹^(M)your offspring would have been like the sand,
    and your descendants like its grains;
their name would never be cut off
    or destroyed from before me.”

²⁰^(N)Go out from Babylon, flee from ^(O)Chaldea,
    declare this ^(P)with a shout of joy, proclaim it,
send it out to the end of the earth;
    say, ^(Q)“The Lord has redeemed his servant Jacob!”
²¹^(R)They did not thirst when he led them through the deserts;
    ^(S)he made water flow for them from the rock;
    he split the rock and the water gushed out.

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Galatians 1:18-2:10

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¹⁸Then ^(A)after three years I went up to Jerusalem to visit Cephas and remained with him fifteen days. ¹⁹But I saw none of the other apostles except James ^(B)the Lord's brother. ²⁰(In what I am writing to you, ^(C)before God, I do not lie!) ²¹^(D)Then I went into the regions of Syria and Cilicia. ²²And I was still unknown in person to ^(E)the churches of Judea that are in Christ. ²³They only were hearing it said, “He who used to persecute us is now preaching the faith he once tried to destroy.” ²⁴And they glorified God because of me.

Paul Accepted by the Apostles

2 Then after fourteen years I went up again to Jerusalem with Barnabas, taking Titus along with me. ²I went up because of a revelation and set before them (though privately before those ^(F)who seemed influential) the gospel that ^(G)I proclaim among the Gentiles, ^(H)in order to make sure I was not running or had not ^(I)run in vain. ³But even Titus, who was with me, ^(J)was not forced to be circumcised, though he was a Greek. ⁴^(K)Yet because of false brothers secretly brought in—who ^(L)slipped in to spy out ^(M)our freedom that we have in Christ Jesus, ^(N)so that they might bring us into slavery— ⁵to them we did not yield in submission even for a moment, so that ^(O)the truth of the gospel might be preserved for you. ⁶And from those ^(P)who seemed to be influential (what they were makes no difference to me; ^(Q)God shows no partiality)—those, I say, who seemed influential ^(R)added nothing to me. ⁷On the contrary, when they saw that I had been ^(S)entrusted with ^(T)the gospel to the uncircumcised, just as Peter had been entrusted with the gospel to the circumcised ⁸(for he who worked through Peter for his apostolic ministry to the circumcised worked also through me for mine to the Gentiles), ⁹and when James and Cephas and John, ^(U)who seemed to be ^(V)pillars, perceived the ^(W)grace that was given to me, they ^(X)gave the right hand of fellowship to Barnabas and me, that we should go to the Gentiles and they to the circumcised. ¹⁰Only, they asked us to remember the poor, ^(Y)the very thing I was eager to do.

Mark 6:1-13

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Jesus Rejected at Nazareth

6 ^(A)He went away from there and came to ^(B)his hometown, and his disciples followed him. ²And ^(C)on the Sabbath he began to teach in the synagogue, and ^(D)many who heard him were astonished, saying, “Where did this man get these things? What is the wisdom given to him? How are such mighty works done by his hands? ³^(E)Is not this ^(F)the carpenter, the son of Mary and ^(G)brother of James and Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with us?” And ^(H)they took offense at him. ⁴And Jesus said to them, ^(I)“A prophet is not without honor, except in his hometown and among his relatives and in his own household.” ⁵And ^(J)he could do no mighty work there, except that ^(K)he laid his hands on a few sick people and healed them. ⁶And ^(L)he marveled because of their unbelief.

^(M)And he went about among the villages teaching.

Jesus Sends Out the Twelve Apostles

⁷^(N)And he called the twelve and began to send them out two by two, and gave them authority over the unclean spirits. ⁸He charged them to take nothing for their journey except a staff—no bread, no bag, no money in their belts— ⁹but to ^(O)wear sandals and not put on two tunics.^[a] ¹⁰And he said to them, “Whenever you enter a house, stay there until you depart from there. ¹¹And if any place will not receive you and they will not listen to you, when you leave, ^(P)shake off the dust that is on your feet ^(Q)as a testimony against them.” ¹²^(R)So they went out and ^(S)proclaimed ^(T)that people should repent. ¹³^(U)And they cast out many demons and ^(V)anointed with oil many who were sick and healed them.