Amos 9
1
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the
thresholds may shake; and break them in pieces on the head of all of them; and I will
slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there
shall not one of them escape.
2
Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb
up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
3
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 it shall bite them.
4
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.
5
For the Lord, YHWH of hosts, [is] he who touches the land and it melts, and all that
dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink
again, like the River of Egypt;
6
[it is] he who builds his chambers in the heavens, and has founded his vault upon
the earth; he who calls" for the waters of the sea, and pours them out upon the face
of the earth; YHWH is his name.
7
Are you not as the children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says YHWH.
Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor,
and the Syrians from Kir?
8
Behold, the eyes of the Lord YHWH are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy
it from off the face of the earth; save that I will not utterly destroy the house
of Jacob, says YHWH.
9
For, behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations,
like as [grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least kernel fall upon the
earth.
10
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake
nor meet us.
11
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 its ruins, and I will build it as in the days
of old;
12
that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations that are called by
my name, says YHWH that does this.
13
Behold, the days come, says YHWH, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and
the treader of grapes him whom sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine,
and all the hills shall melt.
14
And I will bring back the captivity of my people 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.
15
And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of
their land which I have given them, says YHWH your God.