Amos 9

The Destruction of Israel

9I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said: "Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake, and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.H7200H136H5324H4196H559H5221H3730H5592H7493H1214H7218H2026H319H2719H5127H5127H6412H44222"If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.H2864H7585H3027H3947H5927H8064H33813If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.H2244H7218H3760H2664H3947H5641H5869H7172H3220H6680H5175H53914And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good."H3212H7628H6440H341H6680H2719H2026H7760H5869H7451H28965The Lord GOD of hosts, 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;H136H3069H6635H5060H776H4127H3427H56H5927H2975H8257H2975H47146who builds his upper chambers in the heavens 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.H1129H4609H8064H3245H92H776H7121H4325H3220H8210H6440H776H3068H80347"Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?" declares the LORD. "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?H1121H3569H1121H3478H5002H3068H5927H3478H776H4714H6430H3731H758H70248Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob," declares the LORD.H5869H136H3069H2403H4467H8045H6440H127H657H8045H8045H1004H3290H5002H30689"For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.H6680H5128H1004H3478H1471H5128H3531H6872H5307H77610All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, 'Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.'H2400H5971H4191H2719H559H7451H5066H6923

The Restoration of Israel

11"In that day I will raise up 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,H3117H6965H5521H1732H5307H1443H6556H6965H2034H1129H3117H576912that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name," declares the LORD who does this.H3423H7611H123H1471H7121H8034H5002H3068H621313"Behold, the days are coming," declares the LORD, "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.H3117H935H5002H3068H2790H5066H7114H1869H6025H4900H2233H2022H5197H6071H1389H412714I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel, 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.H7725H7622H5971H3478H1129H8074H5892H3427H5193H3754H8354H3196H6213H1593H398H652915I will plant them on their land, and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them," says the LORD your God.H5193H127H5428H127H5414H559H3068H430