Psalm 113-115

English Standard Version

Who Is like the Lord Our God?

113 ^(A)Praise the Lord!
^(B)Praise, O ^(C)servants of the Lord,
praise the name of the Lord!

²^(D)Blessed be the name of the Lord
from this time forth and forevermore!
³^(E)From the rising of the sun to its setting,
^(F)the name of the Lord is ^(G)to be praised!

⁴The Lord is ^(H)high above all nations,
    and his ^(I)glory above the heavens!
⁵^(J)Who is like the Lord our God,
    who is seated on high,
⁶who ^(K)looks far down
    on the heavens and the earth?
⁷He ^(L)raises the poor from the dust
    and lifts the needy from the ash heap,
⁸to make them ^(M)sit with princes,
    with the princes of his people.
⁹He ^(N)gives the barren woman a home,
    making her the joyous mother of children.
^(O)Praise the Lord!

Tremble at the Presence of the Lord

114 When ^(P)Israel went out from Egypt,
the house of Jacob from ^(Q)a people of strange language,
²Judah became his ^(R)sanctuary,
Israel his dominion.

³^(S)The sea looked and fled;
^(T)Jordan turned back.
⁴^(U)The mountains skipped like rams,
the hills like lambs.

⁵What ^(V)ails you, O sea, that you flee?
O Jordan, that you turn back?
⁶O mountains, that you skip like rams?
O hills, like lambs?

⁷^(W)Tremble, O earth, at the presence of the Lord,
at the presence of the God of Jacob,
⁸who turns ^(X)the rock into ^(Y)a pool of water,
^(Z)the flint into a spring of water.

To Your Name Give Glory

115 ^(AA)Not to us, O Lord, not to us, but to your name give glory,
^(AB)for the sake of your steadfast love and your faithfulness!

²Why should the nations say,
^(AC)“Where is their God?”
³^(AD)Our God is in the heavens;
^(AE)he does all that he pleases.

⁴^(AF)Their idols are silver and gold,
    ^(AG)the work of human hands.
⁵They have mouths, ^(AH)but do not speak;
    eyes, but do not see.
⁶They have ears, but do not hear;
    noses, but do not smell.
⁷They have hands, but do not feel;
    feet, but do not walk;
    and they do not make a sound in their throat.
⁸^(AI)Those who make them become like them;
    so do all who trust in them.

⁹O ^(AJ)Israel,^[a] ^(AK)trust in the Lord!
    He is their ^(AL)help and their shield.
¹⁰O ^(AM)house of Aaron, trust in the Lord!
    He is their help and ^(AN)their shield.
¹¹You ^(AO)who fear the Lord, trust in the Lord!
    He is their help and their shield.

¹²The Lord has remembered us; he will bless us;
    he will bless ^(AP)the house of Israel;
    he will bless ^(AQ)the house of Aaron;
¹³he will ^(AR)bless those who fear the Lord,
    ^(AS)both the small and the great.

¹⁴May the Lord ^(AT)give you increase,
you and your children!
¹⁵May ^(AU)you be blessed by the Lord,
^(AV)who made heaven and earth!

¹⁶The heavens are the Lord's heavens,
    but the earth he has given to the children of man.
¹⁷^(AW)The dead do not praise the Lord,
    nor do any who go down into ^(AX)silence.
¹⁸But ^(AY)we will bless the Lord
    from this time forth and forevermore.
^(AZ)Praise the Lord!

Notas al pie

Psalm 115:9 Masoretic Text; many Hebrew manuscripts, Septuagint, Syriac O house of Israel

2 Corinthians 2

English Standard Version

2 For I made up my mind ^(A)not to make another painful visit to you. ²For ^(B)if I cause you pain, who is there to make me glad but the one whom I have pained? ³And I wrote as I did, so that when I came I might not suffer pain from those who should have made me rejoice, ^(C)for I felt sure of all of you, that my joy would be the joy of you all. ⁴For ^(D)I wrote to you out of much affliction and anguish of heart and with many tears, not to cause you pain but to let you know the abundant love that I have for you.

Forgive the Sinner

⁵Now ^(E)if anyone has caused pain, ^(F)he has caused it not to me, but ^(G)in some measure—not to put it too severely—to all of you. ⁶For such a one, ^(H)this punishment by the majority is enough, ⁷so ^(I)you should rather turn to forgive and comfort him, or he may be overwhelmed by excessive sorrow. ⁸So I beg you to reaffirm your love for him. ⁹For this is why I wrote, that I might ^(J)test you and know ^(K)whether you are obedient in everything. ¹⁰Anyone whom you forgive, I also forgive. Indeed, what I have forgiven, if I have forgiven anything, has been for your sake in the presence of Christ, ¹¹so that we would not be outwitted by Satan; for ^(L)we are not ignorant of his designs.

Triumph in Christ

¹²When ^(M)I came to Troas to preach the gospel of Christ, even though ^(N)a door was opened for me in the Lord, ¹³my spirit ^(O)was not at rest because I did not find my brother Titus there. So I took leave of them and went on to Macedonia.

¹⁴But ^(P)thanks be to God, who in Christ always ^(Q)leads us in triumphal procession, and through us spreads ^(R)the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. ¹⁵For we are the aroma of Christ to God among ^(S)those who are being saved and among ^(T)those who are perishing, ¹⁶^(U)to one a fragrance from death to death, ^(V)to the other a fragrance from life to life. ^(W)Who is sufficient for these things? ¹⁷For we are not, like so many, peddlers of God's word, but as men of sincerity, as commissioned by God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.