Amos, 9

¹ I saw Jehovah stationed above the altar, and he said: “Strike the head of the pillar, and the thresholds will shake. Cut them off at the head, and I will kill the last of them with the sword. No one who flees will get away, and no one trying to escape will succeed.

² If they dig down into the Grave,^*1 From there my hand will take them; And if they go up to the heavens, From there I will bring them down.

³ And if they hide themselves on the top of Carʹmel, From there I will search them out and take them. If they conceal themselves from my eyes on the bottom of the sea, There I will command the serpent to bite them.

⁴ If they go into captivity before their enemies, From there I will command the sword, and it will kill them; I will fix my eyes on them for bad, and not for good.

⁵ For the Sovereign Lord, Jehovah of the armies, is the One who touches the land,^*1 So that it melts, and all its inhabitants will mourn; And all of it will rise like the Nile, And sink down like the Nile of Egypt.

⁶ ‘The one who builds his stairs in the heavens And establishes his structure^*1 over the earth; The one who summons the waters of the sea, To pour them out on the surface of the earth —Jehovah is his name.’

⁷ ‘Are you not like the sons of the Cushʹites to me, O people of Israel?’ declares Jehovah. ‘Did I not bring Israel up out of the land of Egypt, The Phi·lisʹtines out of Crete, and Syria out of Kir?’

⁸ ‘Look! The eyes of the Sovereign Lord Jehovah are on the sinful kingdom, And he will annihilate it from the surface of the land. But I will not completely annihilate the house of Jacob,’ declares Jehovah.

⁹ ‘For look! I am giving the command, And I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations, Just as one shakes a sieve, And not a pebble falls to the ground.

¹⁰ They will die by the sword, all the sinners of my people, Those who are saying, “The calamity will not come near us or reach us.”’

¹¹ ‘In that day I will raise up the booth^*1 of David that is fallen, I will repair the^*2 breaches, And I will restore its ruins; I will rebuild it as in the days of long ago,

¹² So that they may take possession of what is remaining of Eʹdom, And all the nations on whom my name has been called,’ declares Jehovah, who is doing this.

¹³ ‘Look! The days are coming,’ declares Jehovah, ‘When the plowman will overtake the harvester, And the treader of grapes, the one carrying seed; And the mountains will drip with sweet wine, And all the hills will flow with it.^*1

¹⁴ I will gather back the captives of my people Israel, And they will rebuild the desolated cities and inhabit them; They will plant vineyards and drink their wine, And make gardens and eat their fruit.’

¹⁵ ‘I will plant them on their land, And they will never again be uprooted From their land that I have given them,’ says Jehovah your God.”