Amos 9

¹I saw the Lord standing beside the altar , and he said : Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake , and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword ; not one of them shall flee away ; not one of them shall escape .

²If they dig into Sheol , from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven , from there I will bring them down .

³If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel , from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea , there I will command the serpent , and it shall bite them.

⁴And if they go into captivity before their enemies , there I will command the sword , and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good .

⁵The Lord God of hosts , he who touches the earth and it melts , and all who dwell in it mourn , and all of it rises like the Nile , and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt ;

⁶who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth ; who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth — the Lord is his name .

⁷Are you not like the Cushites to me, O people of Israel ? declares the Lord. Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt , and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir ?

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 , declares the Lord.

⁹For behold , I will command , and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve , but no pebble shall fall to the earth .

¹⁰All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword , who say , Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.

¹¹In 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 , declares the Lord who does this .

¹³Behold , the days are coming , declares 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 on their land , and they shall never again be uprooted out of the land that I have given them, says the Lord your God .