Mark 4:31 好像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上的百种都小，

4:31 MSG

逐节对照

新标点和合本 - 好像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上的百种都小，
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 它像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上所有的种子都小，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 它像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上所有的种子都小，
当代译本 - 上帝的国就像一粒芥菜种。它是世上种子中最小的，
圣经新译本 - 它好像一粒芥菜种，刚种下去的时候，比地上的一切种子都小，
中文标准译本 - 它好像一粒芥菜种子，被种入地里的时候，比地上所有的种子更小，
现代标点和合本 - 好像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上的百种都小，
和合本（拼音版） - 好像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上的百种都小，
New International Version - It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth.
New International Reader's Version - It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth.
English Standard Version - It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,
New Living Translation - It is like a mustard seed planted in the ground. It is the smallest of all seeds,
Christian Standard Bible - It’s like a mustard seed that, when sown upon the soil, is the smallest of all the seeds on the ground.
New American Standard Bible - It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is the smallest of all the seeds that are upon the soil,
New King James Version - It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth;
Amplified Bible - It is like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown on the ground, even though it is smaller than all the [other] seeds that are [sown] on the soil,
American Standard Version - It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,
King James Version - It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
New English Translation - It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground –
World English Bible - It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,
新標點和合本 - 好像一粒芥菜種，種在地裏的時候，雖比地上的百種都小，
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 它像一粒芥菜種，種在地裏的時候，雖比地上所有的種子都小，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 它像一粒芥菜種，種在地裏的時候，雖比地上所有的種子都小，
當代譯本 - 上帝的國就像一粒芥菜種。它是世上種子中最小的，
聖經新譯本 - 它好像一粒芥菜種，剛種下去的時候，比地上的一切種子都小，
呂振中譯本 - 它好像一粒芥菜種，種在地上的時候，雖比地上任何種子都小，
中文標準譯本 - 它好像一粒芥菜種子，被種入地裡的時候，比地上所有的種子更小，
現代標點和合本 - 好像一粒芥菜種，種在地裡的時候，雖比地上的百種都小，
文理和合譯本 - 猶芥種一粒、播於地、乃地上百種之至微者、
文理委辦譯本 - 猶芥種播於地、為世間百種之至微、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 猶芥種一粒、種於地時、為世間百種之至微者、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 其猶芥子歟、方其播於地也、微於他種、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Es como un grano de mostaza: cuando se siembra en la tierra, es la semilla más pequeña que hay,
현대인의 성경 - 하나님의 나라는 겨자씨 한 알과 같다. 그것이 땅에 심길 때는 씨앗 중에서 가장 작은 것이지만
Новый Русский Перевод - Оно как горчичное зерно. Когда его сеют в землю, оно самое маленькое из всех семян,
Восточный перевод - Оно как горчичное зерно. Когда его сеют в землю, оно самое маленькое из всех семян,
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Оно как горчичное зерно. Когда его сеют в землю, оно самое маленькое из всех семян,
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Оно как горчичное зерно. Когда его сеют в землю, оно самое маленькое из всех семян,
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Il en est de lui comme d’une graine de moutarde : lorsqu’on la sème dans la terre, c’est la plus petite des semences du monde.
リビングバイブル - それは、小さなからし種のようです。からし種は種の中でも最も小さいものですが、
Nestle Aland 28 - ὡς κόκκῳ σινάπεως, ὃς ὅταν σπαρῇ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, μικρότερον ὂν πάντων τῶν σπερμάτων τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ὡς κόκκῳ σινάπεως, ὃς ὅταν σπαρῇ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, μικρότερον ὂν πάντων τῶν σπερμάτων τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,
Nova Versão Internacional - É como um grão de mostarda, que é a menor semente que se planta na terra.
Hoffnung für alle - Mit Gottes Reich ist es wie mit einem Senfkorn, das auf ein Feld gesät wird. Es ist zwar das kleinste von allen Samenkörnern.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Nước của Đức Chúa Trời giống như một hạt cải rất nhỏ. Đó là hạt nhỏ nhất trong các loại hạt giống, nhưng khi gieo xuống đất,
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - อาณาจักรของพระเจ้านั้นก็เหมือนเมล็ดมัสตาร์ดซึ่งเป็นเมล็ดที่เล็กที่สุดเมื่อเพาะลงในดิน
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - อาณาจักรของพระเจ้าอุปมาเหมือนเมล็ดพันธุ์จิ๋วที่หว่านลงบนดิน ซึ่งเป็นขนาดเล็กที่สุดในจำนวนเมล็ดพืชอื่นๆ ที่อยู่บนดิน

交叉引用

Revelation 20:1 - I saw an Angel descending out of Heaven. He carried the key to the Abyss and a chain—a huge chain. He grabbed the Dragon, that old Snake—the very Devil, Satan himself!—chained him up for a thousand years, dumped him into the Abyss, slammed it shut and sealed it tight. No more trouble out of him, deceiving the nations—until the thousand years are up. After that he has to be let loose briefly.
Revelation 20:4 - I saw thrones. Those put in charge of judgment sat on the thrones. I also saw the souls of those beheaded because of their witness to Jesus and the Word of God, who refused to worship either the Beast or his image, refused to take his mark on forehead or hand—they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years! The rest of the dead did not live until the thousand years were up. This is the first resurrection—and those involved most blessed, most holy. No second death for them! They’re priests of God and Christ; they’ll reign with him a thousand years.
Revelation 11:15 - The seventh Angel trumpeted. A crescendo of voices in Heaven sang out, The kingdom of the world is now the Kingdom of our God and his Messiah! He will rule forever and ever! The Twenty-four Elders seated before God on their thrones fell to their knees, worshiped, and sang, We thank you, O God, Sovereign-Strong, Who Is and Who Was. You took your great power and took over—reigned! The angry nations now get a taste of your anger. The time has come to judge the dead, to reward your servants, all prophets and saints, Reward small and great who fear your Name, and destroy the destroyers of earth.
Acts 2:41 - That day about three thousand took him at his word, were baptized and were signed up. They committed themselves to the teaching of the apostles, the life together, the common meal, and the prayers. * * *
Zechariah 8:20 - A Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: “People and their leaders will come from all over to see what’s going on. The leaders will confer with one another: ‘Shouldn’t we try to get in on this? Get in on God’s blessings? Pray to God-of-the-Angel-Armies? What’s keeping us? Let’s go!’
Zechariah 8:22 - “Lots of people, powerful nations—they’ll come to Jerusalem looking for what they can get from God-of-the-Angel-Armies, looking to get a blessing from God.” * * *
Zechariah 8:23 - A Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: “At that time, ten men speaking a variety of languages will grab the sleeve of one Jew, hold tight, and say, ‘Let us go with you. We’ve heard that God is with you.’”
Micah 4:1 - But when all is said and done, God’s Temple on the mountain, Firmly fixed, will dominate all mountains, towering above surrounding hills. People will stream to it and many nations set out for it, Saying, “Come, let’s climb God’s mountain. Let’s go to the Temple of Jacob’s God. He will teach us how to live. We’ll know how to live God’s way.” True teaching will issue from Zion, God’s revelation from Jerusalem. He’ll establish justice in the rabble of nations and settle disputes in faraway places. They’ll trade in their swords for shovels, their spears for rakes and hoes. Nations will quit fighting each other, quit learning how to kill one another. Each man will sit under his own shade tree, each woman in safety will tend her own garden. God-of-the-Angel-Armies says so, and he means what he says.
Isaiah 49:7 - God, Redeemer of Israel, The Holy of Israel, says to the despised one, kicked around by the nations, slave labor to the ruling class: “Kings will see, get to their feet—the princes, too— and then fall on their faces in homage Because of God, who has faithfully kept his word, The Holy of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Acts 21:20 - They had a story to tell, too: “And just look at what’s been happening here—thousands upon thousands of God-fearing Jews have become believers in Jesus! But there’s also a problem because they are more zealous than ever in observing the laws of Moses. They’ve been told that you advise believing Jews who live surrounded by unbelieving outsiders to go light on Moses, telling them that they don’t need to circumcise their children or keep up the old traditions. This isn’t sitting at all well with them.
Zechariah 2:11 - Many godless nations will be linked up with God at that time. (“They will become my family! I’ll live in their homes!”) And then you’ll know for sure that God-of-the-Angel-Armies sent me on this mission. God will reclaim his Judah inheritance in the Holy Land. He’ll again make clear that Jerusalem is his choice. * * *
Zechariah 14:6 - What a Day that will be! No more cold nights—in fact, no more nights! The Day is coming—the timing is God’s—when it will be continuous day. Every evening will be a fresh morning.
Zechariah 14:8 - What a Day that will be! Fresh flowing rivers out of Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea, half to the western sea, flowing year-round, summer and winter!
Zechariah 14:9 - God will be king over all the earth, one God and only one. What a Day that will be! * * *
Matthew 13:31 - Another story. “God’s kingdom is like an acorn that a farmer plants. It is quite small as seeds go, but in the course of years it grows into a huge oak tree, and eagles build nests in it.”
Matthew 13:33 - Another story. “God’s kingdom is like yeast that a woman works into the dough for dozens of loaves of barley bread—and waits while the dough rises.”
Daniel 2:44 - “But throughout the history of these kingdoms, the God of heaven will be building a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will this kingdom ever fall under the domination of another. In the end it will crush the other kingdoms and finish them off and come through it all standing strong and eternal. It will be like the stone cut from the mountain by the invisible hand that crushed the iron, the bronze, the ceramic, the silver, and the gold. “The great God has let the king know what will happen in the years to come. This is an accurate telling of the dream, and the interpretation is also accurate.”
Psalms 72:18 - Blessed God, Israel’s God, the one and only wonder-working God! Blessed always his blazing glory! All earth brims with his glory. Yes and Yes and Yes.
Malachi 1:11 - “I am honored all over the world. And there are people who know how to worship me all over the world, who honor me by bringing their best to me. They’re saying it everywhere: ‘God is greater, this God-of-the-Angel-Armies.’
Amos 9:11 - “But also on that Judgment Day I will restore David’s house that has fallen to pieces. I’ll repair the holes in the roof, replace the broken windows, fix it up like new. David’s people will be strong again and seize what’s left of enemy Edom, plus everyone else under my sovereign judgment.” God’s Decree. He will do this.
Amos 9:13 - “Yes indeed, it won’t be long now.” God’s Decree. “Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills. I’ll make everything right again for my people Israel: “They’ll rebuild their ruined cities. They’ll plant vineyards and drink good wine. They’ll work their gardens and eat fresh vegetables. And I’ll plant them, plant them on their own land. They’ll never again be uprooted from the land I’ve given them.” God, your God, says so.
Ezekiel 17:22 - “‘God, the Master, says, I personally will take a shoot from the top of the towering cedar, a cutting from the crown of the tree, and plant it on a high and towering mountain, on the high mountain of Israel. It will grow, putting out branches and fruit—a majestic cedar. Birds of every sort and kind will live under it. They’ll build nests in the shade of its branches. All the trees of the field will recognize that I, God, made the great tree small and the small tree great, made the green tree turn dry and the dry tree sprout green branches. I, God, said it—and I did it.’”
Isaiah 53:2 - The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away. We looked down on him, thought he was scum. But the fact is, it was our pains he carried— our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed. We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost. We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on him, on him.
Luke 13:18 - Then he said, “How can I picture God’s kingdom for you? What kind of story can I use? It’s like an acorn that a man plants in his front yard. It grows into a huge oak tree with thick branches, and eagles build nests in it.”

逐节对照

交叉引用

新标点和合本 - 好像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上的百种都小，
和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 它像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上所有的种子都小，
和合本2010（神版-简体） - 它像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上所有的种子都小，
当代译本 - 上帝的国就像一粒芥菜种。它是世上种子中最小的，
圣经新译本 - 它好像一粒芥菜种，刚种下去的时候，比地上的一切种子都小，
中文标准译本 - 它好像一粒芥菜种子，被种入地里的时候，比地上所有的种子更小，
现代标点和合本 - 好像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上的百种都小，
和合本（拼音版） - 好像一粒芥菜种，种在地里的时候，虽比地上的百种都小，
New International Version - It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth.
New International Reader's Version - It is like a mustard seed, which is the smallest of all seeds on earth.
English Standard Version - It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when sown on the ground, is the smallest of all the seeds on earth,
New Living Translation - It is like a mustard seed planted in the ground. It is the smallest of all seeds,
Christian Standard Bible - It’s like a mustard seed that, when sown upon the soil, is the smallest of all the seeds on the ground.
New American Standard Bible - It is like a mustard seed, which, when sown upon the soil, though it is the smallest of all the seeds that are upon the soil,
New King James Version - It is like a mustard seed which, when it is sown on the ground, is smaller than all the seeds on earth;
Amplified Bible - It is like a mustard seed, which, when it is sown on the ground, even though it is smaller than all the [other] seeds that are [sown] on the soil,
American Standard Version - It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown upon the earth, though it be less than all the seeds that are upon the earth,
King James Version - It is like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, is less than all the seeds that be in the earth:
New English Translation - It is like a mustard seed that when sown in the ground, even though it is the smallest of all the seeds in the ground –
World English Bible - It’s like a grain of mustard seed, which, when it is sown in the earth, though it is less than all the seeds that are on the earth,
新標點和合本 - 好像一粒芥菜種，種在地裏的時候，雖比地上的百種都小，
和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 它像一粒芥菜種，種在地裏的時候，雖比地上所有的種子都小，
和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 它像一粒芥菜種，種在地裏的時候，雖比地上所有的種子都小，
當代譯本 - 上帝的國就像一粒芥菜種。它是世上種子中最小的，
聖經新譯本 - 它好像一粒芥菜種，剛種下去的時候，比地上的一切種子都小，
呂振中譯本 - 它好像一粒芥菜種，種在地上的時候，雖比地上任何種子都小，
中文標準譯本 - 它好像一粒芥菜種子，被種入地裡的時候，比地上所有的種子更小，
現代標點和合本 - 好像一粒芥菜種，種在地裡的時候，雖比地上的百種都小，
文理和合譯本 - 猶芥種一粒、播於地、乃地上百種之至微者、
文理委辦譯本 - 猶芥種播於地、為世間百種之至微、
施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 猶芥種一粒、種於地時、為世間百種之至微者、
吳經熊文理聖詠與新經全集 - 其猶芥子歟、方其播於地也、微於他種、
Nueva Versión Internacional - Es como un grano de mostaza: cuando se siembra en la tierra, es la semilla más pequeña que hay,
현대인의 성경 - 하나님의 나라는 겨자씨 한 알과 같다. 그것이 땅에 심길 때는 씨앗 중에서 가장 작은 것이지만
Новый Русский Перевод - Оно как горчичное зерно. Когда его сеют в землю, оно самое маленькое из всех семян,
Восточный перевод - Оно как горчичное зерно. Когда его сеют в землю, оно самое маленькое из всех семян,
Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Оно как горчичное зерно. Когда его сеют в землю, оно самое маленькое из всех семян,
Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Оно как горчичное зерно. Когда его сеют в землю, оно самое маленькое из всех семян,
La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Il en est de lui comme d’une graine de moutarde : lorsqu’on la sème dans la terre, c’est la plus petite des semences du monde.
リビングバイブル - それは、小さなからし種のようです。からし種は種の中でも最も小さいものですが、
Nestle Aland 28 - ὡς κόκκῳ σινάπεως, ὃς ὅταν σπαρῇ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, μικρότερον ὂν πάντων τῶν σπερμάτων τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,
unfoldingWord® Greek New Testament - ὡς κόκκῳ σινάπεως, ὃς ὅταν σπαρῇ ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς, μικρότερον ὂν πάντων τῶν σπερμάτων τῶν ἐπὶ τῆς γῆς,
Nova Versão Internacional - É como um grão de mostarda, que é a menor semente que se planta na terra.
Hoffnung für alle - Mit Gottes Reich ist es wie mit einem Senfkorn, das auf ein Feld gesät wird. Es ist zwar das kleinste von allen Samenkörnern.
Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Nước của Đức Chúa Trời giống như một hạt cải rất nhỏ. Đó là hạt nhỏ nhất trong các loại hạt giống, nhưng khi gieo xuống đất,
พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - อาณาจักรของพระเจ้านั้นก็เหมือนเมล็ดมัสตาร์ดซึ่งเป็นเมล็ดที่เล็กที่สุดเมื่อเพาะลงในดิน
พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - อาณาจักรของพระเจ้าอุปมาเหมือนเมล็ดพันธุ์จิ๋วที่หว่านลงบนดิน ซึ่งเป็นขนาดเล็กที่สุดในจำนวนเมล็ดพืชอื่นๆ ที่อยู่บนดิน

Revelation 20:1 - I saw an Angel descending out of Heaven. He carried the key to the Abyss and a chain—a huge chain. He grabbed the Dragon, that old Snake—the very Devil, Satan himself!—chained him up for a thousand years, dumped him into the Abyss, slammed it shut and sealed it tight. No more trouble out of him, deceiving the nations—until the thousand years are up. After that he has to be let loose briefly.
Revelation 20:4 - I saw thrones. Those put in charge of judgment sat on the thrones. I also saw the souls of those beheaded because of their witness to Jesus and the Word of God, who refused to worship either the Beast or his image, refused to take his mark on forehead or hand—they lived and reigned with Christ for a thousand years! The rest of the dead did not live until the thousand years were up. This is the first resurrection—and those involved most blessed, most holy. No second death for them! They’re priests of God and Christ; they’ll reign with him a thousand years.
Revelation 11:15 - The seventh Angel trumpeted. A crescendo of voices in Heaven sang out, The kingdom of the world is now the Kingdom of our God and his Messiah! He will rule forever and ever! The Twenty-four Elders seated before God on their thrones fell to their knees, worshiped, and sang, We thank you, O God, Sovereign-Strong, Who Is and Who Was. You took your great power and took over—reigned! The angry nations now get a taste of your anger. The time has come to judge the dead, to reward your servants, all prophets and saints, Reward small and great who fear your Name, and destroy the destroyers of earth.
Acts 2:41 - That day about three thousand took him at his word, were baptized and were signed up. They committed themselves to the teaching of the apostles, the life together, the common meal, and the prayers. * * *
Zechariah 8:20 - A Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: “People and their leaders will come from all over to see what’s going on. The leaders will confer with one another: ‘Shouldn’t we try to get in on this? Get in on God’s blessings? Pray to God-of-the-Angel-Armies? What’s keeping us? Let’s go!’
Zechariah 8:22 - “Lots of people, powerful nations—they’ll come to Jerusalem looking for what they can get from God-of-the-Angel-Armies, looking to get a blessing from God.” * * *
Zechariah 8:23 - A Message from God-of-the-Angel-Armies: “At that time, ten men speaking a variety of languages will grab the sleeve of one Jew, hold tight, and say, ‘Let us go with you. We’ve heard that God is with you.’”
Micah 4:1 - But when all is said and done, God’s Temple on the mountain, Firmly fixed, will dominate all mountains, towering above surrounding hills. People will stream to it and many nations set out for it, Saying, “Come, let’s climb God’s mountain. Let’s go to the Temple of Jacob’s God. He will teach us how to live. We’ll know how to live God’s way.” True teaching will issue from Zion, God’s revelation from Jerusalem. He’ll establish justice in the rabble of nations and settle disputes in faraway places. They’ll trade in their swords for shovels, their spears for rakes and hoes. Nations will quit fighting each other, quit learning how to kill one another. Each man will sit under his own shade tree, each woman in safety will tend her own garden. God-of-the-Angel-Armies says so, and he means what he says.
Isaiah 49:7 - God, Redeemer of Israel, The Holy of Israel, says to the despised one, kicked around by the nations, slave labor to the ruling class: “Kings will see, get to their feet—the princes, too— and then fall on their faces in homage Because of God, who has faithfully kept his word, The Holy of Israel, who has chosen you.”
Acts 21:20 - They had a story to tell, too: “And just look at what’s been happening here—thousands upon thousands of God-fearing Jews have become believers in Jesus! But there’s also a problem because they are more zealous than ever in observing the laws of Moses. They’ve been told that you advise believing Jews who live surrounded by unbelieving outsiders to go light on Moses, telling them that they don’t need to circumcise their children or keep up the old traditions. This isn’t sitting at all well with them.
Zechariah 2:11 - Many godless nations will be linked up with God at that time. (“They will become my family! I’ll live in their homes!”) And then you’ll know for sure that God-of-the-Angel-Armies sent me on this mission. God will reclaim his Judah inheritance in the Holy Land. He’ll again make clear that Jerusalem is his choice. * * *
Zechariah 14:6 - What a Day that will be! No more cold nights—in fact, no more nights! The Day is coming—the timing is God’s—when it will be continuous day. Every evening will be a fresh morning.
Zechariah 14:8 - What a Day that will be! Fresh flowing rivers out of Jerusalem, half to the eastern sea, half to the western sea, flowing year-round, summer and winter!
Zechariah 14:9 - God will be king over all the earth, one God and only one. What a Day that will be! * * *
Matthew 13:31 - Another story. “God’s kingdom is like an acorn that a farmer plants. It is quite small as seeds go, but in the course of years it grows into a huge oak tree, and eagles build nests in it.”
Matthew 13:33 - Another story. “God’s kingdom is like yeast that a woman works into the dough for dozens of loaves of barley bread—and waits while the dough rises.”
Daniel 2:44 - “But throughout the history of these kingdoms, the God of heaven will be building a kingdom that will never be destroyed, nor will this kingdom ever fall under the domination of another. In the end it will crush the other kingdoms and finish them off and come through it all standing strong and eternal. It will be like the stone cut from the mountain by the invisible hand that crushed the iron, the bronze, the ceramic, the silver, and the gold. “The great God has let the king know what will happen in the years to come. This is an accurate telling of the dream, and the interpretation is also accurate.”
Psalms 72:18 - Blessed God, Israel’s God, the one and only wonder-working God! Blessed always his blazing glory! All earth brims with his glory. Yes and Yes and Yes.
Malachi 1:11 - “I am honored all over the world. And there are people who know how to worship me all over the world, who honor me by bringing their best to me. They’re saying it everywhere: ‘God is greater, this God-of-the-Angel-Armies.’
Amos 9:11 - “But also on that Judgment Day I will restore David’s house that has fallen to pieces. I’ll repair the holes in the roof, replace the broken windows, fix it up like new. David’s people will be strong again and seize what’s left of enemy Edom, plus everyone else under my sovereign judgment.” God’s Decree. He will do this.
Amos 9:13 - “Yes indeed, it won’t be long now.” God’s Decree. “Things are going to happen so fast your head will swim, one thing fast on the heels of the other. You won’t be able to keep up. Everything will be happening at once—and everywhere you look, blessings! Blessings like wine pouring off the mountains and hills. I’ll make everything right again for my people Israel: “They’ll rebuild their ruined cities. They’ll plant vineyards and drink good wine. They’ll work their gardens and eat fresh vegetables. And I’ll plant them, plant them on their own land. They’ll never again be uprooted from the land I’ve given them.” God, your God, says so.
Ezekiel 17:22 - “‘God, the Master, says, I personally will take a shoot from the top of the towering cedar, a cutting from the crown of the tree, and plant it on a high and towering mountain, on the high mountain of Israel. It will grow, putting out branches and fruit—a majestic cedar. Birds of every sort and kind will live under it. They’ll build nests in the shade of its branches. All the trees of the field will recognize that I, God, made the great tree small and the small tree great, made the green tree turn dry and the dry tree sprout green branches. I, God, said it—and I did it.’”
Isaiah 53:2 - The servant grew up before God—a scrawny seedling, a scrubby plant in a parched field. There was nothing attractive about him, nothing to cause us to take a second look. He was looked down on and passed over, a man who suffered, who knew pain firsthand. One look at him and people turned away. We looked down on him, thought he was scum. But the fact is, it was our pains he carried— our disfigurements, all the things wrong with us. We thought he brought it on himself, that God was punishing him for his own failures. But it was our sins that did that to him, that ripped and tore and crushed him—our sins! He took the punishment, and that made us whole. Through his bruises we get healed. We’re all like sheep who’ve wandered off and gotten lost. We’ve all done our own thing, gone our own way. And God has piled all our sins, everything we’ve done wrong, on him, on him.
Luke 13:18 - Then he said, “How can I picture God’s kingdom for you? What kind of story can I use? It’s like an acorn that a man plants in his front yard. It grows into a huge oak tree with thick branches, and eagles build nests in it.”