Book of Amos, Chapter 9
Chapter 9 of Amos
“Smite the capitals until the thresholds shake,
and shatter them on the heads of all the people;[b]
and what are left of them I will slay with the sword;
not one of them shall flee away,
not one of them shall escape.
from there shall my hand take them;
though they climb up to heaven,
from there I will bring them down.
from there I will search out and take them;
and though they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them;
and I will set my eyes upon them
for evil and not for good.”
he who touches the earth and it melts,
and all who dwell in it mourn,
and all of it rises like the Nile,
and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
and founds his vault upon the earth;
who calls for the waters of the sea,
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
the LORD is his name.
O people of Israel?” says the LORD.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?
and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground;
except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
says the LORD.
and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
but no pebble shall fall upon the earth.
who say, ‘Evil shall not overtake or meet us.’
the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches,
and raise up its ruins,
and rebuild it as in the days of old;
and all the nations who are called by my name,”
says the LORD who does this.
“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and all the hills shall flow with it.
and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
and they shall never again be plucked up
out of the land which I have given them,”
says the LORD your God.FOOTNOTES
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