Psalm 72:1-10

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Psalm 72

Of Solomon.

72 God, give your judgments to the king.
    Give your righteousness to the king’s son.
²Let him judge your people with righteousness
    and your poor ones with justice.
³Let the mountains bring peace to the people;
    let the hills bring righteousness.
⁴Let the king bring justice to people who are poor;
    let him save the children of those who are needy,
        but let him crush oppressors!
⁵Let the king live^[a] as long as the sun,
    as long as the moon,
        generation to generation.
⁶Let him fall like rain upon fresh-cut grass,
    like showers that water the earth.
⁷Let the righteous flourish throughout their lives,
    and let peace prosper until the moon is no more.
⁸Let the king rule from sea to sea,
    from the river to the ends of the earth.
⁹Let the desert dwellers bow low before him;
    let his enemies lick the dust.
¹⁰Let the kings of Tarshish and the islands bring tribute;
    let the kings of Sheba and Seba present gifts.

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Notas al pie

Psalm 72:5 LXX; MT May they fear you.

1 John 4:7-12

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Love and God

⁷Dear friends, let’s love each other, because love is from God, and everyone who loves is born from God and knows God. ⁸The person who doesn’t love does not know God, because God is love. ⁹This is how the love of God is revealed to us: God has sent his only Son into the world so that we can live through him. ¹⁰This is love: it is not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his Son as the sacrifice that deals with our sins.

¹¹Dear friends, if God loved us this way, we also ought to love each other. ¹²No one has ever seen God. If we love each other, God remains in us and his love is made perfect in us.

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Mark 6:30-44

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Jesus feeds five thousand people

³⁰The apostles returned to Jesus and told him everything they had done and taught. ³¹Many people were coming and going, so there was no time to eat. He said to the apostles, “Come by yourselves to a secluded place and rest for a while.” ³²They departed in a boat by themselves for a deserted place.

³³Many people saw them leaving and recognized them, so they ran ahead from all the cities and arrived before them. ³⁴When Jesus arrived and saw a large crowd, he had compassion on them because they were like sheep without a shepherd. Then he began to teach them many things.

³⁵Late in the day, his disciples came to him and said, “This is an isolated place, and it’s already late in the day. ³⁶Send them away so that they can go to the surrounding countryside and villages and buy something to eat for themselves.”

³⁷He replied, “You give them something to eat.”

But they said to him, “Should we go off and buy bread worth almost eight months’ pay^[a] and give it to them to eat?”

³⁸He said to them, “How much bread do you have? Take a look.”

After checking, they said, “Five loaves of bread and two fish.”

³⁹He directed the disciples to seat all the people in groups as though they were having a banquet on the green grass. ⁴⁰They sat down in groups of hundreds and fifties. ⁴¹He took the five loaves and the two fish, looked up to heaven, blessed them, broke the loaves into pieces, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people. He also divided the two fish among them all. ⁴²Everyone ate until they were full. ⁴³They filled twelve baskets with the leftover pieces of bread and fish. ⁴⁴About five thousand had eaten.

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