Amós 9

The Destruction of Israel

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

"Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,

And *Ps. 68:21; Hab. 3:13break them on the heads of them all.

I will slay the last of them with the sword.

*Amos 2:14He who flees from them shall not get away,

And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.

2 "Though*Ps. 139:8; Jer. 23:24 they dig into hell,

From there My hand shall take them;

*Job 20:6; Jer. 51:53; Obad. 4; Matt. 11:23Though they climb up to heaven,

From there I will bring them down;

3 And though they *Jer. 23:24hide themselves on top of Carmel,

From there I will search and take them;

Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,

From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;

4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies,

From there *Lev. 26:33I will command the sword,

And it shall slay them.

*Lev. 17:10; Jer. 21:10; 39:16; 44:11I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good."

5 The Lord God of hosts,

He who touches the earth and it *Ps. 104:32; 144:5; Is. 64:1; Mic. 1:4melts,

*Amos 8:8And all who dwell there mourn;

All of it shall swell like the River,

And subside like the River of Egypt.

6 He who builds His *Ps. 104:3, 13layers in the sky,

And has founded His strata in the earth;

Who *Amos 5:8calls for the waters of the sea,

And pours them out on the face of the earth—

*Amos 4:13; 5:27The Lordis His name.

7 "Are you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me,

O children of Israel?" says the Lord.

"Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,

The *Jer. 47:4Philistines from *Deut. 2:23Caphtor,

And the Syrians from *Amos 1:5Kir?

8 "Behold, *Jer. 44:27; Amos 9:4the eyes of the Lord Godare on the sinful kingdom,

And I *Jer. 5:10; 30:11; (Joel 2:32); Amos 3:12; (Obad. 16, 17)will destroy it from the face of the earth;

Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,"

Says the Lord.

9 "For surely I will command,

And will sift the house of Israel among all nations,

As grain is sifted in a sieve;

*(Is. 65:8–16)Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.

10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,

*(Is. 28:15); Jer. 5:12; Amos 6:3Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’

Israel Will Be Restored

11 "On*Acts 15:16–18 that day I will raise up

The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,

And repair its damages;

I will raise up its ruins,

And rebuild it as in the days of old;

12 *Obad. 19That they may possess the remnant of *Num. 24:18; Is. 11:14Edom,

And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,"

Says the Lord who does this thing.

13 "Behold, *Lev. 26:5the days are coming," says the Lord,

"When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,

And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;

*Joel 3:18The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,

And all the hills shall flow withit.

14 *Ps. 53:6; Is. 60:4; Jer. 30:3, 18I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;

*Is. 61:4They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;

They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;

They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.

15 I will plant them in their land,

*Is. 60:21; Ezek. 34:28; 37:25And no longer shall they be pulled up

From the land I have given them,"

Says the Lord your God.