Psalm 22:25-31

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²⁵I offer praise in the great congregation
    because of you;
    I will fulfill my promises
    in the presence of those who honor God.
²⁶Let all those who are suffering eat and be full!
    Let all who seek the Lord praise him!
        I pray your hearts live forever!
²⁷Every part of the earth
    will remember and come back to the Lord;
    every family among all the nations will worship you.
²⁸Because the right to rule belongs to the Lord,
    he rules all nations.
²⁹Indeed, all the earth’s powerful
    will worship him;^[a]
    all who are descending to the dust
    will kneel before him;
    my being also lives for him.^[b]
³⁰Future descendants will serve him;
    generations to come will be told about my Lord.
³¹They will proclaim God’s righteousness
        to those not yet born,
        telling them what God has done.

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Footnotes

Psalm 22:29 Correction; MT All the earth’s powerful have eaten and will worship.
Psalm 22:29 Correction with LXX; Heb uncertain

Amos 8:11-13

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¹¹The days are surely coming, says the Lord God,
        when I will send hunger and thirst on the land;
    neither a hunger for bread, nor a thirst for water,
        but of hearing the Lord ’s words.
¹²They will wander from sea to sea,
        and from north to east;
    they will roam all around, seeking the Lord’s word,
        but they won’t find it.
¹³On that day the beautiful young women and the young men
        will faint with thirst.

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Acts 8:9-25

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⁹Before Philip’s arrival, a certain man named Simon had practiced sorcery in that city and baffled the people of Samaria. He claimed to be a great person. ¹⁰Everyone, from the least to the greatest, gave him their undivided attention and referred to him as “the power of God called Great.” ¹¹He had their attention because he had baffled them with sorcery for a long time. ¹²After they came to believe Philip, who preached the good news about God’s kingdom and the name of Jesus Christ, both men and women were baptized. ¹³Even Simon himself came to believe and was baptized. Afterward, he became one of Philip’s supporters. As he saw firsthand the signs and great miracles that were happening, he was astonished.

¹⁴When word reached the apostles in Jerusalem that Samaria had accepted God’s word, they commissioned Peter and John to go to Samaria. ¹⁵Peter and John went down to Samaria where they prayed that the new believers would receive the Holy Spirit. (¹⁶This was because the Holy Spirit had not yet fallen on any of them; they had only been baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus.) ¹⁷So Peter and John laid their hands on them, and they received the Holy Spirit.

¹⁸When Simon perceived that the Spirit was given through the laying on of the apostles’ hands, he offered them money. ¹⁹He said, “Give me this authority too so that anyone on whom I lay my hands will receive the Holy Spirit.”

²⁰Peter responded, “May your money be condemned to hell along with you because you believed you could buy God’s gift with money! ²¹You can have no part or share in God’s word because your heart isn’t right with God. ²²Therefore, change your heart and life! Turn from your wickedness! Plead with the Lord in the hope that your wicked intent can be forgiven, ²³for I see that your bitterness has poisoned you and evil has you in chains.”

²⁴Simon replied, “All of you, please, plead to the Lord for me so that nothing of what you have said will happen to me!” ²⁵After the apostles had testified and proclaimed the Lord’s word, they returned to Jerusalem, preaching the good news to many Samaritan villages along the way.

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