25 From you comes the theme of my praise in the great assembly;(A)
    before those who fear you[a] I will fulfill my vows.(B)
26 The poor will eat(C) and be satisfied;
    those who seek the Lord will praise him—(D)
    may your hearts live forever!

27 All the ends of the earth(E)
    will remember and turn to the Lord,
and all the families of the nations
    will bow down before him,(F)
28 for dominion belongs to the Lord(G)
    and he rules over the nations.

29 All the rich(H) of the earth will feast and worship;(I)
    all who go down to the dust(J) will kneel before him—
    those who cannot keep themselves alive.(K)
30 Posterity(L) will serve him;
    future generations(M) will be told about the Lord.
31 They will proclaim his righteousness,(N)
    declaring to a people yet unborn:(O)
    He has done it!(P)

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 22:25 Hebrew him

25 My praise shall be of thee in the great congregation: I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

26 The meek shall eat and be satisfied: they shall praise the Lord that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

27 All the ends of the world shall remember and turn unto the Lord: and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before thee.

28 For the kingdom is the Lord's: and he is the governor among the nations.

29 All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul.

30 A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

31 They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done this.

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“Are not you Israelites
    the same to me as the Cushites[a]?”(A)
declares the Lord.
“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
    the Philistines(B) from Caphtor[b](C)
    and the Arameans from Kir?(D)

“Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
    are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy(E) it
    from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
    the descendants of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.(F)
“For I will give the command,
    and I will shake the people of Israel
    among all the nations
as grain(G) is shaken in a sieve,(H)
    and not a pebble will reach the ground.(I)
10 All the sinners among my people
    will die by the sword,(J)
all those who say,
    ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’(K)

Israel’s Restoration

11 “In that day

“I will restore David’s(L) fallen shelter(M)
    I will repair its broken walls
    and restore its ruins(N)
    and will rebuild it as it used to be,(O)
12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom(P)
    and all the nations that bear my name,[c](Q)
declares the Lord, who will do these things.(R)

13 “The days are coming,”(S) declares the Lord,

“when the reaper(T) will be overtaken by the plowman(U)
    and the planter by the one treading(V) grapes.
New wine(W) will drip from the mountains
    and flow from all the hills,(X)
14     and I will bring(Y) my people Israel back from exile.[d](Z)

“They will rebuild the ruined cities(AA) and live in them.
    They will plant vineyards(AB) and drink their wine;
    they will make gardens and eat their fruit.(AC)
15 I will plant(AD) Israel in their own land,(AE)
    never again to be uprooted(AF)
    from the land I have given them,”(AG)

says the Lord your God.(AH)

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 9:7 That is, people from the upper Nile region
  2. Amos 9:7 That is, Crete
  3. Amos 9:12 Hebrew; Septuagint so that the remnant of people / and all the nations that bear my name may seek me
  4. Amos 9:14 Or will restore the fortunes of my people Israel

Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord.

For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doeth this.

13 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

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The Parable of the Mustard Seed(A)

30 Again he said, “What shall we say the kingdom of God is like,(B) or what parable shall we use to describe it? 31 It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth. 32 Yet when planted, it grows and becomes the largest of all garden plants, with such big branches that the birds can perch in its shade.”

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30 And he said, Whereunto shall we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison shall we compare it?

31 It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:

32 But when it is sown, it groweth up, and becometh greater than all herbs, and shooteth out great branches; so that the fowls of the air may lodge under the shadow of it.

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