Amos 9:8–15

⁸“Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord

are on the sinful kingdom.

I will destroy^j it

from the face of the earth.

Yet I will not totally destroy

the descendants of Jacob,”

declares the Lord.^k

⁹“For I will give the command,

and I will shake the people of Israel

among all the nations

as grain^l is shaken in a sieve,^m

and not a pebble will reach the ground.ⁿ

¹⁰All the sinners among my people

will die by the sword,^o

all those who say,

‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’^p

Israel’s Restoration

¹¹“In that day

“I will restore David’s^q fallen shelter^r—

I will repair its broken walls

and restore its ruins^s—

and will rebuild it as it used to be,^t

¹²so that they may possess the remnant of Edom^u

and all the nations that bear my name,^ev”

declares the Lord, who will do these things.^w

¹³“The days are coming,”^x declares the Lord,

“when the reaper^y will be overtaken by the plowman^z

and the planter by the one treading^a grapes.

New wine^b will drip from the mountains

and flow from all the hills,^c

¹⁴and I will bring^d my people Israel back from exile.^fe

“They will rebuild the ruined cities^f and live in them.

They will plant vineyards^g and drink their wine;

they will make gardens and eat their fruit.^h

¹⁵I will plantⁱ Israel in their own land,^j

never again to be uprooted^k

from the land I have given them,”^l

says the Lord your God.^m