Amos 9:8–15

⁸Behold, 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.

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

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

¹¹“In that day I will raise up

the booth of David that is fallen

and repair its breaches,

and raise up its ruins,

and rebuild it as in the days of old;

¹²that they may possess the remnant of Edom

and all the nations who are called by my name,”

says the Lord who does this.

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

“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper

and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;

the mountains shall drip sweet wine,

and all the hills shall flow with it.

¹⁴I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,

and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;

they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,

and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

¹⁵I will plant them upon their land,

and they shall never again be plucked up

out of the land which I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.