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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 have seen the Lord standing by the altar, and He saith : `Smite the knob, and the thresholds shake , And cut them off by the head -- all of them , And their posterity with a sword I do slay, Not flee to them doth the fleer, Nor escape to them doth a fugitive .

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.

If they dig through into sheol, From thence doth My hand take them , And if they go up the heavens , From thence I cause them to come 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 if they be hid in the top of Carmel, From thence I search out, and have taken them , And if they be hid from Mine eyes in the bottom of the sea, From thence I command the serpent , And it hath bitten 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 if they go into captivity before their enemies , From thence I command the sword , And it hath slain them , And I have set Mine eye on 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 `it is' the Lord , Jehovah of Hosts, Who is striking against the land, and it melteth , And mourned have all the inhabitants in it , And come up as a flood hath all of it, And it hath sunk -- like 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.

Who is building in the heavens His upper chambers; As to His troop, Upon earth He hath founded it, Who is calling for the waters of the sea , And poureth them out on the face of the land, Jehovah ` 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?

As sons of Cushim are ye not to Me ? O sons of Israel -- an affirmation of Jehovah . Israel did I not bring up out of the land of Egypt ? And the Philistines from Caphtor, and Aram 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 .

Lo, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah ` are ' on the sinful kingdom, And I have destroyed it from off the face of the ground, Only, I destroy not utterly the house of Jacob, An affirmation of Jehovah .

“ 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 am commanding , And I have shaken among all the nations the house of Israel, As `one' doth shake with a sieve , And there falleth not a grain `to' 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 . ’”

By sword die do all sinners of My people , Who are saying , `Not overtake, or go before, For our sakes, doth evil . '

“ 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 I raise the tabernacle of David , that is fallen, And I have repaired their breaches , And its ruins I do raise up , And I have built it up as in 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.

So that they possess the remnant of Edom , And all the nations on whom My name is called , An affirmation of Jehovah -- doer of 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 .

Lo , days are coming -- an affirmation of Jehovah , And come nigh hath the ploughman to the reaper , And the treader of grapes to the scatterer of seed , And the mountains have dropt juice , And all the hills do 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 have turned back `to' the captivity of My people Israel , And they have built desolate cities, and inhabited, And have planted vineyards , and drunk their wine , And made gardens , and eaten their fruit.

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 have planted them on their own ground , And they are not plucked up any more from off their own ground, That I have given to them, said Jehovah thy God !

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