AMOS
CHAPTER 9

Israel to Be Destroyed

¹ I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said:

"Strike the tops of the pillars
so that the thresholds shake.
Bring them down on the heads of all the people;
those who are left I will kill with the sword.
Not one will get away,
none will escape.
² Though they dig down to the depths of the grave, ^[1]
from there my hand will take them.
Though they climb up to the heavens,
from there I will bring them down.
³ Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,
there I will hunt them down and seize them.
Though they hide from me at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent to bite them.
⁴ Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,
there I will command the sword to slay them.
I will fix my eyes upon them
for evil and not for good."

⁵ The Lord, the LORD Almighty,
he who touches the earth and it melts,
and all who live in it mourn-
the whole land rises like the Nile,
then sinks like the river of Egypt-
⁶ he who builds his lofty palace ^[2] in the heavens
and sets its foundation ^[3] on the earth,
who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out over the face of the land-
the LORD is his name.

⁷ "Are not you Israelites
the same to me as the Cushites ^[4] ?"
declares the LORD .
"Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
the Philistines from Caphtor ^[5]
and the Arameans from Kir?

⁸ "Surely the eyes of the Sovereign LORD
are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy it
from the face of the earth-
yet I will not totally destroy
the house of Jacob,"
declares the LORD .
⁹ "For I will give the command,
and I will shake the house of Israel
among all the nations
as grain is shaken in a sieve,
and not a pebble will reach the ground.
¹⁰ All the sinners among my people
will die by the sword,
all those who say,
'Disaster will not overtake or meet us.'


Israel's Restoration
¹¹ "In that day I will restore
David's fallen tent.
I will repair its broken places,
restore its ruins,
and build it as it used to be,
¹² so that they may possess the remnant of Edom
and all the nations that bear my name, ^[6] "
declares the LORD , who will do these things.

¹³ "The days are coming," declares the LORD ,

"when the reaper will be overtaken by the plowman
and the planter by the one treading grapes.
New wine will drip from the mountains
and flow from all the hills.
¹⁴ I will bring back my exiled ^[7] people Israel;
they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.
They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;
they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
¹⁵ I will plant Israel in their own land,
never again to be uprooted
from the land I have given them,"

says the LORD your God.

Footnotes

1. 9:2 Hebrew to Sheol
2. 9:6 The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
3. 9:6 The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
4. 9:7 That is, people from the upper Nile region
5. 9:7 That is, Crete
6. 9:12 Hebrew; Septuagint so that the remnant of men / and all the nations that bear my name may seek the Lord
7. 9:14 Or will restore the fortunes of my

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