Psalm 119:17-40

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Gimel

¹⁷^(A)Deal bountifully with your servant,
    ^(B)that I may live and keep your word.
¹⁸Open my eyes, that I may behold
    wondrous things out of your law.
¹⁹I am ^(C)a sojourner on the earth;
    ^(D)hide not your commandments from me!
²⁰My soul is consumed with ^(E)longing
    for your rules^[a] at all times.
²¹You rebuke ^(F)the insolent, ^(G)accursed ones,
    who ^(H)wander from your commandments.
²²Take away from me ^(I)scorn and contempt,
    ^(J)for I have kept your testimonies.
²³Even though ^(K)princes sit plotting against me,
    your servant will ^(L)meditate on your statutes.
²⁴Your testimonies are my ^(M)delight;
    they are my ^(N)counselors.

Daleth

²⁵^(O)My soul clings to the dust;
    ^(P)give me life ^(Q)according to your word!
²⁶When ^(R)I told of my ways, you answered me;
    ^(S)teach me your statutes!
²⁷^(T)Make me understand the way of your precepts,
    and I will ^(U)meditate on your wondrous works.
²⁸^(V)My soul melts away for sorrow;
    strengthen me according to your word!
²⁹Put false ways far from me
    and graciously ^(W)teach me your law!
³⁰I have chosen the way of faithfulness;
    I ^(X)set your rules before me.
³¹I cling to your testimonies, O Lord;
    ^(Y)let me not be put to shame!
³²I will run in the way of your commandments
    when you ^(Z)enlarge my heart!^[b]

He

³³^(AA)Teach me, O Lord, the way of your statutes;
    and I will keep it ^(AB)to the end.^[c]
³⁴^(AC)Give me understanding, that I may keep your law
    and observe it with my whole heart.
³⁵^(AD)Lead me in the path of your commandments,
    for I ^(AE)delight in it.
³⁶^(AF)Incline my heart to your testimonies,
    and not to ^(AG)selfish gain!
³⁷^(AH)Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things;
    and ^(AI)give me life in your ways.
³⁸^(AJ)Confirm to your servant your promise,
    ^(AK)that you may be feared.
³⁹Turn away the ^(AL)reproach that I dread,
    for your rules are good.
⁴⁰Behold, I ^(AM)long for your precepts;
    ^(AN)in your righteousness give me life!

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Notas al pie

Psalm 119:20 Or your just decrees; also verses 30, 39, 43, 52, 75, 102, 108, 137, 156, 175
Psalm 119:32 Or for you set my heart free
Psalm 119:33 Or keep it as my reward

Jeremiah 15

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The Lord Will Not Relent

15 Then the Lord said to me, ^(A)“Though ^(B)Moses ^(C)and Samuel ^(D)stood before me, yet my heart would not turn toward this people. Send them out of my sight, and let them go! ²And when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go?’ you shall say to them, ‘Thus says the Lord:

^(E)“‘Those who are for pestilence, to pestilence,
and those who are for the sword, to the sword;
those who are for famine, to famine,
and those who are for captivity, to captivity.’

³^(F)I will appoint over them four kinds of destroyers, declares the Lord: the sword to kill, the dogs to tear, and ^(G)the birds of the air ^(H)and the beasts of the earth to devour and destroy. ⁴^(I)And I will make them a horror to all the kingdoms of the earth because of what ^(J)Manasseh the son of Hezekiah, king of Judah, did in Jerusalem.

⁵^(K)“Who will have pity on you, O Jerusalem,
    ^(L)or who will grieve for you?
Who will turn aside
    to ask about your welfare?
⁶^(M)You have rejected me, declares the Lord;
    ^(N)you keep going backward,
so I have stretched out my hand against you and destroyed you—
    ^(O)I am weary of relenting.
⁷^(P)I have winnowed them with ^(Q)a winnowing fork
    in the gates of the land;
I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people;
    ^(R)they did not turn from their ways.
⁸I have made their widows more in number
    than ^(S)the sand of the seas;
I have brought against the mothers of young men
    a destroyer at noonday;
I have made anguish and terror
    fall upon them suddenly.
⁹^(T)She who bore seven has grown feeble;
    ^(U)she has fainted away;
^(V)her sun went down while it was yet day;
    she has been shamed and disgraced.
And the rest of them I will give to the sword
    before their enemies,
declares the Lord.”

Jeremiah's Complaint

¹⁰^(W)Woe is me, my mother, that you bore me, a man of strife and contention to the whole land! ^(X)I have not lent, nor have I borrowed, yet all of them curse me. ¹¹The Lord said, “Have I not^[a] set you free for their good? Have I not pleaded for you before the enemy in the time of trouble and in the time of distress? ¹²Can one break iron, iron ^(Y)from the north, and bronze?

¹³^(Z)“Your wealth and your treasures I will give as ^(AA)spoil, without price, for all your sins, throughout all your territory. ¹⁴I will make you serve your enemies ^(AB)in a land that you do not know, ^(AC)for in my anger a fire is kindled that shall burn forever.”

¹⁵^(AD)O Lord, you know;
    ^(AE)remember me and visit me,
    ^(AF)^(AG)and take vengeance for me on my persecutors.
In your forbearance take me not away;
    ^(AH)know that ^(AI)for your sake I bear reproach.
¹⁶Your words were found, ^(AJ)and I ate them,
    and ^(AK)your words became to me a joy
    and the delight of my heart,
^(AL)for I am called by your name,
    O Lord, God of hosts.
¹⁷^(AM)I did not sit in the company of revelers,
    nor did I rejoice;
^(AN)I sat alone, because your hand was upon me,
    for you had filled me with indignation.
¹⁸Why is my pain unceasing,
    ^(AO)my wound incurable,
    refusing to be healed?
Will you be to me ^(AP)like a deceitful brook,
    like waters that fail?

¹⁹Therefore thus says the Lord:
^(AQ)“If you return, I will restore you,
    and you shall ^(AR)stand before me.
If you utter what is precious, and not what is worthless,
    you shall be as my mouth.
They shall turn to you,
    but you shall not turn to them.
²⁰^(AS)And I will make you to this people
    a fortified wall of bronze;
they will fight against you,
    ^(AT)but they shall not prevail over you,
^(AU)for I am with you
    to save you and deliver you,
declares the Lord.
²¹^(AV)I will deliver you out of the hand of the wicked,
    and redeem you from the grasp of ^(AW)the ruthless.”

Notas al pie

Jeremiah 15:11 The meaning of the Hebrew is uncertain

Mark 11:27-12:17

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The Authority of Jesus Challenged

²⁷^(A)And they came again to Jerusalem. And as he was walking in the temple, the chief priests and the scribes and the elders came to him, ²⁸and they said to him, ^(B)“By what authority are you doing these things, or who gave you this authority to do them?” ²⁹Jesus said to them, “I will ask you one question; answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. ³⁰Was the baptism of John ^(C)from heaven or from man? Answer me.” ³¹And they discussed it with one another, saying, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ he will say, ^(D)‘Why then did you not believe him?’ ³²But shall we say, ‘From man’?”—^(E)they were afraid of the people, for they all held that John really was ^(F)a prophet. ³³So they answered Jesus, “We do not know.” And Jesus said to them, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I do these things.”

The Parable of the Tenants

12 ^(G)And he began to speak to them in parables. “A man planted ^(H)a vineyard ^(I)and put a fence around it and dug a pit for the winepress and built a tower, and ^(J)leased it to tenants and ^(K)went into another country. ²When the season came, he sent a servant^[a] to the tenants to get from them some of the fruit of the vineyard. ³^(L)And they took him and beat him and sent him away empty-handed. ⁴^(M)Again ^(N)he sent to them another servant, and ^(O)they struck him on the head and ^(P)treated him shamefully. ⁵^(Q)And he sent another, and him they killed. And so with many others: some they beat, and some they killed. ⁶He had still one other, ^(R)a beloved son. ^(S)Finally he sent him to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ ⁷But those tenants said to one another, ^(T)‘This is the heir. Come, ^(U)let us kill him, and the inheritance will be ours.’ ⁸And they took him and killed him and ^(V)threw him out of the vineyard. ⁹What will the owner of the vineyard do? ^(W)He will ^(X)come and destroy the tenants and ^(Y)give the vineyard to others. ¹⁰^(Z)Have you not read ^(AA)this Scripture:

^(AB)“‘The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;^[b]
¹¹this was the Lord's doing,
and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

¹²And ^(AC)they were seeking to arrest him ^(AD)but feared the people, for they perceived that he had told the parable against them. So they ^(AE)left him and went away.

Paying Taxes to Caesar

¹³^(AF)And they sent to him some of ^(AG)the Pharisees and some of ^(AH)the Herodians, to ^(AI)trap him in his talk. ¹⁴And they came and said to him, “Teacher, ^(AJ)we know that you are true and do not care about anyone's opinion. For ^(AK)you are not swayed by appearances,^[c] but truly teach ^(AL)the way of God. Is it lawful to pay ^(AM)taxes to ^(AN)Caesar, or not? Should we pay them, or should we not?” ¹⁵But, knowing ^(AO)their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why ^(AP)put me to the test? Bring me ^(AQ)a denarius^[d] and let me look at it.” ¹⁶And they brought one. And he said to them, “Whose likeness and inscription is this?” They said to him, “Caesar's.” ¹⁷Jesus said to them, ^(AR)“Render to Caesar the things that are Caesar's, and to God the things that are God's.” And they marveled at him.