7 “Are you not like the Ethiopians to me,

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?

8 Behold, 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,”

says the Lord.

9 “For lo, I will command,

and shake the house of Israel among all the nations

as one shakes with a sieve,

but no pebble shall fall upon the earth.

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

who say, ‘Evil shall not overtake or meet us.’