Revised Common Lectionary (Complementary)
25 (A)My praise shall be of You in the great assembly;
(B)I will pay My vows before those who fear Him.
26 The poor shall eat and be satisfied;
Those who seek Him will praise the Lord.
Let your heart live forever!
27 All the ends of the world
Shall remember and turn to the Lord,
And all the families of the [a]nations
Shall worship before [b]You.
28 (C)For the kingdom is the Lord’s,
And He rules over the nations.
29 (D)All the prosperous of the earth
Shall eat and worship;
(E)All those who go down to [c]the dust
Shall bow before Him,
Even he who cannot keep himself alive.
30 A posterity shall serve Him.
It will be recounted of the Lord to the next generation,
31 They will come and declare His righteousness to a people who will be born,
That He has done this.
7 “Are you not like the [a]people of Ethiopia to Me,
O children of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
The (A)Philistines from (B)Caphtor,[b]
And the Syrians from (C)Kir?
8 “Behold, (D)the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I (E)will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord.
9 “For surely I will command,
And will [c]sift the house of Israel among all nations,
As grain is sifted in a sieve;
(F)Yet not the smallest [d]grain shall fall to the ground.
10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
(G)Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’
Israel Will Be Restored
11 “On(H) that day I will raise up
The [e]tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
And [f]repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12 (I)That they may possess the remnant of (J)Edom,[g]
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
Says the Lord who does this thing.
13 “Behold, (K)the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
(L)The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,
And all the hills shall flow with it.
14 (M)I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
(N)They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
15 I will plant them in their land,
(O)And no longer shall they be pulled up
From the land I have given them,”
Says the Lord your God.
The Parable of the Mustard Seed(A)
30 Then He said, (B)“To what shall we liken the kingdom of God? Or with what parable shall we picture it? 31 It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth; 32 but when it is sown, it grows up and becomes greater than all herbs, and shoots out large branches, so that the birds of the air may nest under its shade.”
Scripture taken from the New King James Version®. Copyright © 1982 by Thomas Nelson. Used by permission. All rights reserved.