Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
25 From you comes my praise in the great (A)congregation;
my (B)vows I will (C)perform before those who fear him.
26 (D)The afflicted[a] shall (E)eat and be satisfied;
those who seek him shall praise the Lord!
May your hearts (F)live forever!
27 All (G)the ends of the earth shall remember
and turn to the Lord,
and all (H)the families of the nations
shall worship before you.
28 For (I)kingship belongs to the Lord,
and he rules over the nations.
29 All (J)the prosperous of the earth eat and worship;
before him shall (K)bow all who go down to the dust,
even the one who could not (L)keep himself alive.
30 Posterity shall serve him;
it shall be told of the Lord to the coming (M)generation;
31 they shall (N)come and proclaim his righteousness to a people yet (O)unborn,
that he has done it.
7 “Are you not like (A)the Cushites to me,
O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
(B)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
and (C)the Philistines from (D)Caphtor and the Syrians from (E)Kir?
8 Behold, (F)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
(G)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.
9 “For behold, I will command,
(H)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
who say, (I)‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’
The Restoration of Israel
11 “In that day (J)I will raise up
the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches,
and raise up its ruins
and rebuild it as in the days of old,
12 (K)that they may possess the remnant of Edom
and (L)all the nations who are called by my name,”[a]
declares the Lord who does this.
13 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
(M)“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
(N)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and all the hills shall flow with it.
14 (O)I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
and (P)they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
(Q)they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
15 (R)I will plant them on their land,
(S)and they shall never again be uprooted
out of the land (T)that I have given them,”
says the Lord your God.
The Parable of the Mustard Seed
30 (A)And he said, “With what can we compare the kingdom of God, or what parable shall we use for it? 31 It is like (B)a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth, 32 yet when it is sown it grows up and becomes larger than all the garden plants and puts out large branches, so that the birds of the air can make nests in its shade.”
The Holy Bible, English Standard Version. ESV® Text Edition: 2016. Copyright © 2001 by Crossway Bibles, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers.