The 17th Sunday after Pentecost — World Communion Sunday
Salmos/Psalm 137:1-8, read by Alma Ruth, Founder and Director of Practice Mercy Foundation:
1Junto a los ríos de Babilonia,
nos sentábamos y llorábamos,
al acordarnos de Sión.
2 Sobre los sauces en medio de ella
colgamos nuestras arpas
3 Pues allí los que nos habían llevado cautivos nos pedían canciones,
y los que nos atormentaban nos pedían alegría, diciendo:
Cantadnos alguno de los cánticos de Sión.
4 ¿Cómo cantaremos la canción del Señor
en tierra extraña?
5 Si me olvido de ti, oh Jerusalén,
pierda mi diestra su destreza.
6 Péguese mi lengua al paladar
si no me acuerdo de ti,
si no enaltezco a Jerusalén
sobre mi supremo gozo.
7 Recuerda, oh Señor, contra los hijos de Edom
el día de Jerusalén,
quienes dijeron: Arrasadla, arrasadla
hasta sus cimientos.
8 Oh hija de Babilonia, la devastada,
bienaventurado el que te devuelva
el pago con que nos pagaste.
La Biblia de las Américas (LBLA)
Copyright © 1986, 1995, 1997 by The Lockman Foundation
1 By the rivers of Babylon—
there we sat down, and there we wept
when we remembered Zion.
2 On the willows there
we hung up our harps.
3 For there our captors
asked us for songs,
and our tormentors asked for mirth, saying,
“Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”
4 How could we sing the Lord’s song
in a foreign land?
5 If I forget you, O Jerusalem,
let my right hand wither!
6 Let my tongue cling to the roof of my mouth,
if I do not remember you,
if I do not set Jerusalem
above my highest joy.
7 Remember, O Lord, against the Edomites
the day of Jerusalem’s fall,
how they said, “Tear it down! Tear it down!
Down to its foundations!”
8 O daughter Babylon, you devastator!
Happy shall they be who pay you back
what you have done to us!
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)
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Lamentations 1:1-6, read by Fran Patterson, Pastor of Congregational Care:
1 How lonely sits the city
that once was full of people!
How like a widow she has become,
she that was great among the nations!
She that was a princess among the provinces
has become subject to forced labor.
2 She weeps bitterly in the night,
with tears on her cheeks;
among all her lovers,
she has no one to comfort her;
all her friends have dealt treacherously with her;
they have become her enemies.
3 Judah has gone into exile with suffering
and hard servitude;
she lives now among the nations;
she finds no resting place;
her pursuers have all overtaken her
in the midst of her distress.
4 The roads to Zion mourn,
for no one comes to the festivals;
all her gates are desolate;
her priests groan;
her young girls grieve,
and her lot is bitter.
5 Her foes have become the masters;
her enemies prosper
because the Lord has made her suffer
for the multitude of her transgressions;
her children have gone away,
captives before the foe.
6 From daughter Zion has departed
all her majesty.
Her princes have become like stags
that find no pasture;
they fled without strength
before the pursuer.
New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition (NRSVUE)
New Revised Standard Version, Updated Edition. Copyright © 2021 National Council of Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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