Amos 9

The Destruction of Israel

9I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:

“Strike the ¹doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,

And ^abreak them on the heads of them all.

I will slay the last of them with the sword.

^bHe who flees from them shall not get away,

And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.

²“Though ^cthey dig into ²hell,

From there My hand shall take them;

^dThough they climb up to heaven,

From there I will bring them down;

³And though they ^ehide 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;

⁴Though they go into captivity before their enemies,

From there ^fI will command the sword,

And it shall slay them.

^gI will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”

⁵The Lord God of hosts,

He who touches the earth and it ^hmelts,

ⁱAnd all who dwell there mourn;

All of it shall swell like ³the River,

And subside like the River of Egypt.

⁶He who builds His ^jlayers ⁴in the sky,

And has founded His strata in the earth;

Who ^kcalls for the waters of the sea,

And pours them out on the face of the earth—

^lThe Lord is His name.

⁷“Are you not like the ⁵people of Ethiopia to Me,

O children of Israel?” says the Lord.

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

The ^mPhilistines from ⁿCaphtor, ⁶

And the Syrians from ^oKir?

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

And I ^qwill 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 ⁷sift the house of Israel among all nations,

As grain is sifted in a sieve;

^rYet not the smallest ⁸grain shall fall to the ground.

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

^sWho say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’

Israel Will Be Restored

¹¹“On ^tthat day I will raise up

The ⁹tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,

And ¹repair its damages;

I will raise up its ruins,

And rebuild it as in the days of old;

^12uThat they may possess the remnant of ^vEdom, ²

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

Says the Lord who does this thing.

¹³“Behold, ^wthe days are coming,” says the Lord,

“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,

And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;

^xThe mountains shall drip with sweet wine,

And all the hills shall flow with it.

^14yI will bring back the captives of My people Israel;

^zThey 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.

¹⁵I will plant them in their land,

^aAnd no longer shall they be pulled up

From the land I have given them,”

Says the Lord your God.