Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

^25 (26) My tehillah shall be from Thee in the Kahal Rav; I will fulfill my nedar before them that fear Him.

^26 (27) The anavim (meek) shall eat and be satisfied; they that seek Him shall praise Hashem. Let your levav live forever!

^27 (28) All the ends of HaAretz shall remember and turn unto Hashem; and all the mishpechot of the Goyim shall bow down in worship before Thee.

^28 (29) For the Meluchah is Hashem’s: and He is the Moshel over the Goyim.

^29 (30) All they that thrive upon HaAretz shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the aphar (dust) shall bow before Him; even he who cannot keep alive his own nefesh.

^30 (31) Zera shall serve Him; it shall be told to the generation [to come] concerning Adonoi.

^31 (32) They shall come, and shall declare His tzedek unto an Am Nolad (a [future] people that shall be born), that He hath done this.

8 Thus hath Adonoi Hashem showed unto me: and hinei a basket of kayitz (summer fruit).

² And Hashem said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of kayitz (summer fruit). Then said Hashem unto me, The ketz (end) is come upon My people Yisroel; I will not again pass by them [and spare them] anymore.

³ And the shirot of the heikhal shall turn to wailings in that Yom, saith Adonoi Hashem; there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth. Silence!

⁴ Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the anivvei aretz (poor of the land) to fail,

⁵ Saying, When will the Rosh Chodesh be over, that we may sell grain? And Shabbos, that we may market wheat, making the eifah (bushel) small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by mirmah (deceit)?

⁶ That we may buy the poor for kesef, and the needy for a pair of sandals; yea, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?

⁷ Hashem hath sworn by the ga’on Ya’akov, Surely I will never forget any of their ma’asim.

8 And Rav Sha’ul was giving approval to the murder of Stefanos. And there came about in that day a great pogrom keneged (against) the Brit Chadasha Kehillah in Yerushalayim, and everyone was scattered throughout the regions of Yehudah and Shomron except the Moshiach’s Shlichim.

² And chasidim came and gave kevurah (burial) to Stefanos and they made loud lamentation over him.

³ But Rav Sha’ul was making havoc of the Moshiach’s Kehillah, barging in bais by bais, dragging off both anashim and nashim, and delivering them over to the beis hasohar.

⁴ The ones therefore having been scattered went about preaching the dvar Hashem.

⁵ Now Philippos [Ac 6:5], having gone down to the city of Shomron, was preaching to them the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach.

⁶ And the multitudes with one accord were paying attention to the things being said by Philippos, as they heard him and saw the otot which he was accomplishing.

⁷ For many had ruchot teme’ot coming out, crying out with a kol gadol, and many having been paralyzed and many pisechim (lame ones) were given refu’ah shleimah.

⁸ And there was great simchah in that city.