Amos 9

Chapter 9

God’s Judgment Unavoidable

¹I saw the Lord standing beside the ^aaltar, and He said,

“Smite the capitals so that the ^bthresholds will shake,

And ^cbreak them on the heads of them all!

Then I will ^dslay the rest of them with the sword;

They will ^enot have a fugitive who will flee,

Or a refugee who will escape.

²“Though they dig into ^aSheol,

From there will My hand take them;

And though they ^bascend to heaven,

From there will I bring them down.

³“Though they hide on the summit of Carmel,

I will ^asearch them out and take them from there;

And though they ^bconceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea,

From there I will command the ^cserpent and it will bite them.

⁴“And though they go into ^acaptivity before their enemies,

From there I will command the sword that it slay them,

And I will ^bset My eyes against them for evil and not for good.”

⁵The Lord ¹God of hosts,

The One who ^atouches the land so that it melts,

And ^ball those who dwell in it mourn,

And all of it rises up like the Nile

And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;

⁶The One who builds His ^1aupper chambers in the heavens

And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth,

He who ^bcalls for the waters of the sea

And ^cpours them out on the face of the earth,

^dThe Lord is His name.

⁷“Are you not as the sons of ^aEthiopia to Me,

O sons of Israel?” declares the Lord.

“Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt,

And the ^bPhilistines from Caphtor and the ^cArameans from ^dKir?

⁸“Behold, the ^aeyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,

And I will ^bdestroy it from the face of the earth;

Nevertheless, I will ^cnot totally destroy the house of Jacob,”

Declares the Lord.

⁹“For behold, I am commanding,

And I will ^ashake the house of Israel among all nations

As grain is shaken in a sieve,

But not a ¹kernel will fall to the ground.

¹⁰“All the ^asinners of My people will die by the sword,

Those who say, ‘^bThe calamity will not overtake or confront us.’

The Restoration of Israel

¹¹“In that day I will ^araise up the fallen ^1bbooth of David,

And wall up its ^cbreaches;

I will also raise up its ruins

And rebuild it as in the ^ddays of old;

^12aThat they may possess the remnant of ^bEdom

And all the ¹nations who are ^ccalled by My name,”

Declares the Lord who does this.

¹³“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord,

“When the ^aplowman will overtake the reaper

And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;

When the ^bmountains will drip sweet ^cwine

And all the hills will be dissolved.

¹⁴“Also I will ^arestore the ¹captivity of My people Israel,

And they will ^brebuild the ruined cities and live in them;

They will also ^cplant vineyards and drink their wine,

And make gardens and eat their fruit.

¹⁵“I will also plant them on their land,

And ^athey will not again be rooted out from their land

Which I have given them,”

Says the Lord your God.