Psalm 20

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Trust in the Name of the Lord Our God

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

20 May the Lord ^(A)answer you in the day of trouble!
    May ^(B)the name of the God of Jacob ^(C)protect you!
²May he send you help from ^(D)the sanctuary
    and give you support from ^(E)Zion!
³May he ^(F)remember all your offerings
    and regard with favor your burnt sacrifices! Selah

⁴May he ^(G)grant you your heart's desire
and fulfill all your plans!
⁵May we shout for joy over ^(H)your salvation,
and in the name of our God set up our ^(I)banners!
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!

⁶Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed;
    he will answer him from his holy heaven
    with ^(J)the saving might of his right hand.
⁷Some trust in ^(K)chariots and some in ^(L)horses,
    ^(M)but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
⁸They collapse and fall,
    but we rise and stand upright.

⁹O Lord, save ^(N)the king!
May he answer us when we call.

Psalm 21

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The King Rejoices in the Lord's Strength

To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David.

21 O Lord, in your ^(A)strength the king rejoices,
    and in your ^(B)salvation how greatly he exults!
²You have ^(C)given him his heart's desire
    and have not withheld the request of his lips. Selah
³For you ^(D)meet him with rich blessings;
    you set ^(E)a crown of ^(F)fine gold upon his head.
⁴He asked life of you; you ^(G)gave it to him,
    ^(H)length of days forever and ever.
⁵His ^(I)glory is great through your salvation;
    ^(J)splendor and majesty you bestow on him.
⁶For you make him most blessed forever;^[a]
    you make him glad with the ^(K)joy of your presence.
⁷For the king trusts in the Lord,
    and through the steadfast love of the Most High he shall not be ^(L)moved.

⁸Your hand will ^(M)find out all your enemies;
    your right hand will find out those who hate you.
⁹You will make them as ^(N)a blazing oven
    when you appear.
The Lord will swallow them up in his ^(O)wrath,
    and ^(P)fire will consume them.
¹⁰You ^(Q)will destroy their ^(R)descendants from the earth,
    and their offspring from among the children of man.
¹¹Though they plan evil against you,
    though they ^(S)devise mischief, they will not succeed.
¹²For you will put them ^(T)to flight;
    you will ^(U)aim at their faces with your bows.

¹³Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength!
We will sing and praise your power.

Notas al pie

Psalm 21:6 Or make him a source of blessing forever

Micah 5

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The Ruler to Be Born in Bethlehem

5 ^[a] Now muster your troops, O daughter^[b] of troops;
    siege is laid against us;
with a rod ^(A)they strike the judge of Israel
    on the cheek.
²^[c] ^(B)But you, O Bethlehem Ephrathah,
    who are too little to be among the clans of ^(C)Judah,
from you shall come forth for me
    one who is to be ^(D)ruler in Israel,
^(E)whose coming forth is ^(F)from of old,
    from ancient days.
³Therefore he shall give them up ^(G)until the time
    when she who is in labor has given birth;
then ^(H)the rest of his brothers shall return
    to the people of Israel.
⁴And he shall stand ^(I)and shepherd his flock ^(J)in the strength of the Lord,
    in the majesty of the name of the Lord his God.
And they shall dwell secure, for now ^(K)he shall be great
    to the ends of the earth.
⁵And he shall be ^(L)their peace.

^(M)When the Assyrian comes into our land
    and treads in our palaces,
then we will raise against him seven ^(N)shepherds
    and eight princes of men;
⁶they shall shepherd the land of Assyria with the sword,
    and the land of ^(O)Nimrod at its entrances;
and he shall deliver us from the Assyrian
    ^(P)when he comes into our land
    and treads within our border.

A Remnant Shall Be Delivered

⁷Then ^(Q)the remnant of Jacob shall be
    in the midst of many peoples
like dew from the Lord,
    like showers on the grass,
which delay not for a man
    nor wait for the children of man.
⁸And ^(R)the remnant of Jacob shall be among the nations,
    in the midst of many peoples,
like a lion among the beasts of the forest,
    like a young lion among the flocks of sheep,
^(S)which, when it goes through, treads down
    and tears in pieces, and there is none to deliver.
⁹Your hand shall ^(T)be lifted up over your adversaries,
    and all your enemies shall be cut off.

¹⁰And ^(U)in that day, declares the Lord,
    ^(V)I will cut off your horses from among you
    and will destroy your chariots;
¹¹^(W)and I will cut off the cities of your land
    and throw down all your strongholds;
¹²and I will cut off ^(X)sorceries from your hand,
    and ^(Y)you shall have no more tellers of fortunes;
¹³and ^(Z)I will cut off your carved images
    and ^(AA)your pillars from among you,
^(AB)and you shall bow down no more
    to the work of your hands;
¹⁴and I will root out your ^(AC)Asherah images from among you
    ^(AD)and destroy your cities.
¹⁵And in anger and wrath ^(AE)I will execute vengeance
    on the nations that did not obey.

Notas al pie

Micah 5:1 Ch 4:14 in Hebrew
Micah 5:1 That is, city
Micah 5:2 Ch 5:1 in Hebrew

Matthew 8:1-17

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Jesus Cleanses a Leper

8 When he came down from the mountain, ^(A)great crowds followed him. ²^(B)And behold, a leper^[a] came to him and ^(C)knelt before him, saying, “Lord, if you will, you can make me clean.” ³And Jesus^[b] stretched out his hand and touched him, saying, “I will; be clean.” And immediately his leprosy was cleansed. ⁴And Jesus said to him, ^(D)“See that you say nothing to anyone, but go, ^(E)show yourself to the priest and ^(F)offer the gift that Moses commanded, ^(G)for a proof to them.”

The Faith of a Centurion

⁵^(H)When he had entered Capernaum, a centurion came forward to him, appealing to him, ⁶“Lord, my servant is lying paralyzed at home, suffering terribly.” ⁷And he said to him, “I will come and heal him.” ⁸But the centurion replied, “Lord, I am not worthy to have you come under my roof, but ^(I)only say the word, and my servant will be healed. ⁹For I too am a man under authority, with soldiers under me. And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my servant,^[c] ‘Do this,’ and he does it.” ¹⁰When Jesus heard this, ^(J)he marveled and said to those who followed him, “Truly, I tell you, with ^(K)no one in Israel^[d] have I found such faith. ¹¹I tell you, ^(L)many will come from east and west and recline at table with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob in the kingdom of heaven, ¹²^(M)while the sons of the kingdom ^(N)will be thrown into the outer darkness. In that place ^(O)there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.” ¹³And to the centurion Jesus said, “Go; let it be done for you ^(P)as you have believed.” ^(Q)And the servant was healed at that very moment.

Jesus Heals Many

¹⁴^(R)And when Jesus entered Peter's house, he saw ^(S)his mother-in-law lying sick with a fever. ¹⁵He ^(T)touched her hand, and the fever left her, and she rose and began to serve him. ¹⁶That evening they brought to him many who were ^(U)oppressed by demons, and he cast out the spirits ^(V)with a word and healed all who were sick. ¹⁷^(W)This was to fulfill what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah: ^(X)“He took our illnesses and bore our diseases.”