They will call the peoples to the mountain. There they will offer sacrifices of righteousness, for they will draw out the abundance of the seas, the hidden treasures of the sand.”
that all the peoples of the earth may know that Yahweh himself is God. There is no one else.
Oh give thanks to Yahweh. Call on his name. Make what he has done known among the peoples.
They went about from nation to nation, from one kingdom to another people.
Sing to Yahweh, all the earth! Display his salvation from day to day.
Declare his glory among the nations, and his marvelous works among all the peoples.
They taught in Judah, having the book of Yahweh’s law with them. They went about throughout all the cities of Judah and taught among the people.
Ask of me, and I will give the nations for your inheritance, the uttermost parts of the earth for your possession.
All the ends of the earth shall remember and turn to Yahweh. All the relatives of the nations shall worship before you.
Posterity shall serve him. Future generations shall be told about the Lord.
They shall come and shall declare his righteousness to a people that shall be born, for he has done it.
I have proclaimed glad news of righteousness in the great assembly. Behold, I will not seal my lips, Yahweh, you know.
I have not hidden your righteousness within my heart. I have declared your faithfulness and your salvation. I have not concealed your loving kindness and your truth from the great assembly.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways. Sinners shall be converted to you.
That your way may be known on earth, and your salvation among all nations,
The Lord announced the word. The ones who proclaim it are a great company.
All nations you have made will come and worship before you, Lord. They shall glorify your name.
Declare his glory among the nations, his marvelous works among all the peoples.
Yahweh has made known his salvation. He has openly shown his righteousness in the sight of the nations.
Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name! Make his doings known among the peoples.
I will also speak of your statutes before kings, and will not be disappointed.
One generation will commend your works to another, and will declare your mighty acts.
Wisdom calls aloud in the street. She utters her voice in the public squares.
To call to those who pass by, who go straight on their ways,
The fruit of the righteous is a tree of life. He who is wise wins souls.
In that day you will say, “Give thanks to Yahweh! Call on his name. Declare his doings among the peoples. Proclaim that his name is exalted!
You who tell good news to Zion, go up on a high mountain. You who tell good news to Jerusalem, lift up your voice with strength. Lift it up. Don’t be afraid. Say to the cities of Judah, “Behold, your God!”
I am the first to say to Zion, ‘Behold, look at them;’ and I will give one who brings good news to Jerusalem.
One will say, ‘I am Yahweh’s;’ and another will be called by the name of Jacob; and another will write with his hand ‘to Yahweh,’ and honor the name of Israel.”
Indeed, he says, “It is too light a thing that you should be my servant to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and to restore the preserved of Israel? I will also give you as a light to the nations, that you may be my salvation to the end of the earth.”
How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news, who proclaims salvation, who says to Zion, “Your God reigns!”
Yahweh has made bare his holy arm in the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
“Hey! Come, everyone who thirsts, to the waters! Come, he who has no money, buy, and eat! Yes, come, buy wine and milk without money and without price.
Behold, you shall call a nation that you don’t know; and a nation that didn’t know you shall run to you, because of Yahweh your God, and for the Holy One of Israel; for he has glorified you.”
Seek Yahweh while he may be found. Call on him while he is near.
The Lord Yahweh, who gathers the outcasts of Israel, says, “I will yet gather others to him, besides his own who are gathered.”
Nations will come to your light, and kings to the brightness of your rising.
The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
Go through, go through the gates! Prepare the way of the people! Build up, build up the highway! Gather out the stones! Lift up a banner for the peoples.
“I am inquired of by those who didn’t ask. I am found by those who didn’t seek me. I said, ‘See me, see me,’ to a nation that was not called by my name.
“I will set a sign among them, and I will send those who escape of them to the nations, to Tarshish, Pul, and Lud, who draw the bow, to Tubal and Javan, to far-away islands, who have not heard my fame, nor have seen my glory; and they shall declare my glory among the nations.
You shall speak my words to them, whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse; for they are most rebellious.
He said to me, “Son of man, go to the house of Israel, and speak my words to them.
Go to them of the captivity, to the children of your people, and speak to them, and tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh;’ whether they will hear, or whether they will refuse.
But when I speak with you, I will open your mouth, and you shall tell them, ‘Thus says the Lord Yahweh.’ He who hears, let him hear; and he who refuses, let him refuse; for they are a rebellious house.”
Those who are wise will shine as the brightness of the expanse. Those who turn many to righteousness will shine as the stars forever and ever.
“Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and preach to it the message that I give you.”
Jonah began to enter into the city a day’s journey, and he cried out, and said, “In forty days, Nineveh will be overthrown!”
Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
For the earth will be filled with the knowledge of Yahweh’s glory, as the waters cover the sea.
From beyond the rivers of Cush, my worshipers, even the daughter of my dispersed people, will bring my offering.
Many nations shall join themselves to Yahweh in that day, and shall be my people; and I will dwell among you, and you shall know that Yahweh of Armies has sent me to you.
and the inhabitants of one shall go to another, saying, ‘Let us go speedily to entreat the favor of Yahweh, and to seek Yahweh of Armies. I will go also.’
Yes, many peoples and strong nations will come to seek Yahweh of Armies in Jerusalem, and to entreat the favor of Yahweh.”
Yahweh of Armies says: “In those days, ten men will take hold, out of all the languages of the nations, they will take hold of the skirt of him who is a Jew, saying, ‘We will go with you, for we have heard that God is with you.’”
Ozias sent to Betomasthaim, Bebai, Chobai, and Chola, and to every coast of Israel, to tell about the things that had been accomplished, and that all should rush upon their enemies to destroy them.
Nations shall declare his wisdom, And the congregation shall tell out his praise.
and, beside all this, that he would become a Jew, and would visit every inhabited place, publishing abroad the might of God.
In those days, John the Baptizer came, preaching in the wilderness of Judea, saying,
Then people from Jerusalem, all of Judea, and all the region around the Jordan went out to him.
From that time, Jesus began to preach, and to say, “Repent! For the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand.”
He said to them, “Come after me, and I will make you fishers for men.”
Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
Great multitudes from Galilee, Decapolis, Jerusalem, Judea and from beyond the Jordan followed him.
You are the light of the world. A city located on a hill can’t be hidden.
Neither do you light a lamp, and put it under a measuring basket, but on a stand; and it shines to all who are in the house.
Even so, let your light shine before men; that they may see your good works, and glorify your Father who is in heaven.
As Jesus passed by from there, he saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax collection office. He said to him, “Follow me.” He got up and followed him.
The report of this went out into all that land.
But they went out and spread abroad his fame in all that land.
Jesus went about all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion for them, because they were harassed and scattered, like sheep without a shepherd.
Then he said to his disciples, “The harvest indeed is plentiful, but the laborers are few.
Pray therefore that the Lord of the harvest will send out laborers into his harvest.”
Jesus sent these twelve out, and commanded them, saying, “Don’t go among the Gentiles, and don’t enter into any city of the Samaritans.
Rather, go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, preach, saying, ‘The Kingdom of Heaven is at hand!’
Heal the sick, cleanse the lepers, and cast out demons. Freely you received, so freely give.
Into whatever city or village you enter, find out who in it is worthy; and stay there until you go on.
As you enter into the household, greet it.
If the household is worthy, let your peace come on it, but if it isn’t worthy, let your peace return to you.
Whoever doesn’t receive you, nor hear your words, as you go out of that house or that city, shake the dust off your feet.
Yes, and you will be brought before governors and kings for my sake, for a testimony to them and to the nations.
What I tell you in the darkness, speak in the light; and what you hear whispered in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
Everyone therefore who confesses me before men, him I will also confess before my Father who is in heaven.
But whoever denies me before men, him I will also deny before my Father who is in heaven.
When Jesus had finished directing his twelve disciples, he departed from there to teach and preach in their cities.
The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it, for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, someone greater than Jonah is here.
For the Son of Man came to save that which was lost.
He went out about the third hour, and saw others standing idle in the marketplace.
About the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing idle. He said to them, ‘Why do you stand here all day idle?’
But they made light of it, and went their ways, one to his own farm, another to his merchandise,
Go therefore to the intersections of the highways, and as many as you may find, invite to the marriage feast.’
Those servants went out into the highways, and gathered together as many as they found, both bad and good. The wedding was filled with guests.
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
This Good News of the Kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Most certainly I tell you, wherever this Good News is preached in the whole world, what this woman has done will also be spoken of as a memorial of her.”
Go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit,
teaching them to observe all things that I commanded you. Behold, I am with you always, even to the end of the age.” Amen.
The beginning of the Good News of Jesus Christ, the Son of God.