Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

²⁵ My praise is from thee, in the great congregation; I will pay my vows before them that fear him.

²⁶ The meek shall eat and be satisfied; they shall praise Jehovah that seek him: your heart shall live for ever.

²⁷ All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn unto Jehovah, and all the families of the nations shall worship before thee:

²⁸ For the kingdom is Jehovah's, and he ruleth among the nations.

²⁹ All the fat ones of the earth shall eat and worship; all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him, and he that cannot keep alive his own soul.

³⁰ A seed shall serve him; it shall be accounted to the Lord for a generation.

³¹ They shall come, and shall declare his righteousness unto a people that shall be born, that he hath done [it].

⁷ Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith Jehovah. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

⁸ Behold, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth: only that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith Jehovah.

⁹ For behold, I command, and I will shake the house of Israel to and fro among all the nations, like as one shaketh [corn] in a sieve; yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.

¹⁰ All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, Evil shall not overtake nor befall us.

¹¹ In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David which is fallen, 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 all the nations upon whom my name is called, saith Jehovah who doeth this.

¹³ Behold, the days come, saith Jehovah, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop new wine, and all the hills shall melt.

¹⁴ And I will turn again the captivity of my people Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; and they shall make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.

¹⁵ And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, saith Jehovah thy God.

³⁰ And he said, How should we liken the kingdom of God, or with what comparison should we compare it?

³¹ As to a grain of mustard [seed], which, when it is sown upon the earth, is less than all seeds which are upon the earth,

³² and when it has been sown, mounts up and becomes greater than all herbs, and produces great branches, so that the birds of heaven can roost under its shadow.