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Amos 9

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I saw the Lord standing beside the altar , and He said : “Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake . Topple them on the heads of all the people , and I will kill the rest with the sword . None of those who flee will get away ; none of the fugitives will escape .
I saw the LORD standing upon the altar : and he said , Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake : and cut them in the head , all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword : he that fleeth of them shall not flee away , and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered .
Though they dig down to Sheol , from there My hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will pull them down .
Though they dig into hell , thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down :
Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, there I will track them and seize them; and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them .
And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence ; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent , and he shall bite them :
Though they are driven by their enemies into captivity, there I will command the sword to slay them . I will fix My eyes upon them for harm and not for good. ”
And though they go into captivity before their enemies , thence will I command the sword , and it shall slay them : and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.
The Lord GOD of Hosts , He who touches the earth and it melts , and all its dwellers mourn — all the land rises like the Nile , then sinks like the river of Egypt —
And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt , and all that dwell therein shall mourn : and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned , as by the flood of Egypt .
He builds His upper rooms in the heavens and founds His vault upon the earth . He summons the waters of the sea and pours them over the face of the earth . The LORD is His name.
It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth ; he that calleth for the waters of the sea , and poureth them out upon the face of the earth : The LORD is his name.
“ Are you not like the Cushites to Me, O children of Israel? ” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt , the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Arameans from Kir?
Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt ? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth . Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, ” declares the LORD.
Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth ; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
“ For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve ; but not a pebble will reach the ground .
For , lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations , like as corn is sifted in a sieve , yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth .
All the sinners among My people will die by the sword — all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us. ’”
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword , which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
“ In that day I will restore the fallen tent of David . I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins, and rebuild it as in the days of old ,
In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old :
that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear My name, ” declares the LORD , who will do this.
That they may possess the remnant of Edom , and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.
“ Behold, the days are coming , ” declares the LORD, “when the plowman will overtake the reaper and the treader of grapes , the sower of seed . The mountains will drip with sweet wine, with which all the hills will flow .
Behold, the days come , saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper , and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed ; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt .
I will restore My people Israel from captivity; they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities . They will plant vineyards and drink their wine; they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel , and they shall build the waste cities , and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards , and drink the wine thereof ; they shall also make gardens , and eat the fruit of them .
I will firmly plant them in their own land, never again to be uprooted from the land that I have given them, ” says the LORD your God.
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the LORD thy God.

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