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Primera lectura: Eclesiástico
(Sirácide) 35, 12-17. 20-22
El Señor es un
juez que no se deja impresionar por
apariencias. No menosprecia a nadie por ser
pobre y escucha las súplicas del
oprimido. No desoye los gritos angustiosos del
huérfano ni las quejas
insistentes...
The LORD is a God of justice,
who knows no favorites.
Though not unduly partial toward the weak,
yet he hears the cry of the oppressed.
The Lord is not deaf to the wail of the orphan,
nor to the widow when she pours out her...
En aquellos días, Naamán, el
general del ejército de Siria, que estaba leproso, se bañó siete
veces en el Jordán, como le había dicho Eliseo, el hombre de Dios,
y su carne quedó limpia como la de un niño.
Naaman went down and plunged into the Jordan
seven times
at the word of Elisha, the man of God.
His flesh became again like the flesh of a little child,
and he was clean of his leprosy.
How long, O LORD? I cry for help
but you do not listen!
I cry out to you, "Violence!"
but you do not intervene.
Why do you let me see ruin;
why must I look at misery?
Destruction and violence are before me;
there is strife,...