Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)

²⁵ My praise shall be of You in the great Congregation. I will perform My vows before those who fear Him.

²⁶ The poor shall eat and be satisfied. Those who seek after the LORD shall praise Him. Your heart shall live forever.

²⁷ All the ends of the world shall remember and turn to the LORD; and all the kindreds of the nations shall worship before You.

²⁸ For the Kingdom is the LORD’s; and He rules among the nations.

²⁹ All those who are fat on the Earth shall eat and worship. All those who go down into the dust shall bow before Him, even him who cannot quicken his own soul.

³⁰ Their seed shall serve Him. It shall be counted to the LORD for a generation.

³¹ They shall come and shall declare His righteousness to a people who shall be born, because He has done it. A Psalm of David.

8 Thus has the LORD God shown to me: Behold, a basket of summer fruit.

² And He said, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A basket of summer fruit.” Then said the LORD to me, “The end has come upon my people of Israel. I will pass by them no more.

³ “And the songs of the Temple shall be howlings on that day,” said the LORD God. “Many dead bodies shall be in every place. They shall cast them forth with silence.”

⁴ “Hear this, O you who swallow up the poor and may make the needy of the land fail,

⁵ saying, ‘When will the new month be gone, that we may sell corn; and the Sabbath, that we may set forth wheat and make the ephah small and the shekel great and falsify the weights by deceit?

⁶ ‘That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat.’”

⁷ The LORD has sworn by the excellency of Jacob, “Surely, I will never forget any of their works.

8 And Saul consented to his death. And at that time, there was a great persecution against the church which was at Jerusalem. And they were all scattered throughout the regions of Judea and Samaria, except the Apostles.

² Then God-fearing men carried Stephen to be buried and made great lamentation for him.

³ But Saul defiled the Church, and entered into every house, and drew out both men and women, and put them into prison.

⁴ Therefore, those who were scattered throughout, went to and fro preaching the word.

⁵ Then Philip came into the city of Samaria and preached Christ to them.

⁶ And the people paid attention to those things which Philip spoke, with one mind, hearing and seeing the miracles which he did.

⁷ For unclean spirits, crying with a loud voice, came out of many who were possessed. And many taken with palsies, and who were lame, were healed.

⁸ And there was great joy in that city.