Psalm 22:25-31

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²⁵I offer praise in the great congregation
    because of you;
    I will fulfill my promises
    in the presence of those who honor God.
²⁶Let all those who are suffering eat and be full!
    Let all who seek the Lord praise him!
        I pray your hearts live forever!
²⁷Every part of the earth
    will remember and come back to the Lord;
    every family among all the nations will worship you.
²⁸Because the right to rule belongs to the Lord,
    he rules all nations.
²⁹Indeed, all the earth’s powerful
    will worship him;^[a]
    all who are descending to the dust
    will kneel before him;
    my being also lives for him.^[b]
³⁰Future descendants will serve him;
    generations to come will be told about my Lord.
³¹They will proclaim God’s righteousness
        to those not yet born,
        telling them what God has done.

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Footnotes

Psalm 22:29 Correction; MT All the earth’s powerful have eaten and will worship.
Psalm 22:29 Correction with LXX; Heb uncertain

Amos 8:1-7

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A vision of summer fruit

8 This is what the Lord God showed me: a basket of summer fruit. ²He said, “Amos, what do you see?”

I said, “A basket of summer fruit.”

Then the Lord said to me,

    “The end has come upon my people Israel;
        I will never again forgive them.
³    On that day, the people will wail the temple songs,”
        says the Lord God;
    “there will be many corpses,
    thrown about everywhere.^[a]
        Silence.”

Judgment on oppressors and hypocrites

⁴    Hear this, you who trample on the needy and destroy
        the poor of the land, ⁵saying,
    “When will the new moon
        be over so that we may sell grain,
        and the Sabbath
        so that we may offer wheat for sale,
        make the ephah smaller, enlarge the shekel,
        and deceive with false balances,
⁶        in order to buy the needy for silver
        and the helpless for sandals,
        and sell garbage as grain?”

⁷ The Lord has sworn by the pride of Jacob:
Surely I will never forget what they have done.

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Footnotes

Amos 8:3 Heb uncertain

Acts 8:1-8

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8 ¹Saul was in full agreement with Stephen’s murder.

The church scatters

At that time, the church in Jerusalem began to be subjected to vicious harassment. Everyone except the apostles was scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria. ²Some pious men buried Stephen and deeply grieved over him. ³Saul began to wreak havoc against the church. Entering one house after another, he would drag off both men and women and throw them into prison.

Philip in Samaria

⁴Those who had been scattered moved on, preaching the good news along the way. ⁵Philip went down to a city in Samaria^[a] and began to preach Christ to them. ⁶The crowds were united by what they heard Philip say and the signs they saw him perform, and they gave him their undivided attention. ⁷With loud shrieks, unclean spirits came out of many people, and many who were paralyzed or crippled were healed. ⁸There was great rejoicing in that city.

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