Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

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.

⁷ “Are you not as the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel?” says the LORD. “Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt; and the Philistines from Caphtor and Aram from Kir?

⁸ “Behold, the eyes of the LORD God are upon the sinful kingdom. And I will destroy it clean out of the Earth. Nevertheless, I will not utterly destroy the House of Jacob,” says the LORD.

⁹ “For lo, I will command, and I will sift the House of Israel among all nations, as in a sieve. Still, the least stone shall not fall upon the Earth.

¹⁰ “But all the sinners of My people who say, ‘The evil shall not come or hasten for us,” shall die by the sword.

¹¹ “On that day, I will raise up the tabernacle of David, which is fallen down; and close up the breaches thereof. And I will raise up its ruins. And I will build it, as in the days of old,

¹² “that they may possess the remnant of Edom—and of all the heathen—because My Name is called upon them,” says the LORD, Who does this.

¹³ “Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that the plowman shall touch the mower; and the treader of grapes him who sows seed. And the mountains shall drop sweet wine. And all the hills shall melt.

¹⁴ “And I will bring back the captives of My people of Israel. And they shall build the waste cities and inhabit them. And they shall plant vineyards and drink the wine thereof. They shall also make gardens and eat the fruits of them.

¹⁵ “And I will plant them upon their land. And no more shall they be pulled up again out of their land which I have given them,” says the LORD your God.

³⁰ He said moreover, “To what shall we liken the Kingdom of God? Or, with what shall we compare it?

³¹ “It is like a grain of mustard seed; which, when it is sown in the earth, is the least of all seeds on the Earth.

³² “But after it is sown, it grows up and is greatest of all herbs and bears great branches. So that the birds of the heaven may build under the shadow of it.”