Amos 9
9
The Destruction of Israel
1I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:
“Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
And #Ps. 68:21; Hab. 3:13break them on the heads of them all.
I will slay the last of them with the sword.
#Amos 2:14He who flees from them shall not get away,
And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.
2“Though#Ps. 139:8; Jer. 23:24 they dig into hell,
From there My hand shall take them;
#Job 20:6; Jer. 51:53; Obad. 4; Matt. 11:23Though they climb up to heaven,
From there I will bring them down;
3And though they #Jer. 23:24hide themselves on top of Carmel,
From there I will search and take them;
Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
4Though they go into captivity before their enemies,
From there #Lev. 26:33I will command the sword,
And it shall slay them.
#Lev. 17:10; Jer. 21:10; 39:16; 44:11I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”
5The Lord God of hosts,
He who touches the earth and it #Ps. 104:32; 144:5; Is. 64:1; Mic. 1:4melts,
#Amos 8:8And all who dwell there mourn;
All of it shall swell like the River,
And subside like the River of Egypt.
6He who builds His #Ps. 104:3, 13layers in the sky,
And has founded His strata in the earth;
Who #Amos 5:8calls for the waters of the sea,
And pours them out on the face of the earth—
#Amos 4:13; 5:27The Lord is His name.
7“Are you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me,
O children of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
The #Jer. 47:4Philistines from #Deut. 2:23Caphtor,
And the Syrians from #Amos 1:5Kir?
8“Behold, #Jer. 44:27; Amos 9:4the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I #Jer. 5:10; 30:11; (Joel 2:32); Amos 3:12; (Obad. 16, 17)will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord.
9“For surely I will command,
And will sift the house of Israel among all nations,
As grain is sifted in a sieve;
#(Is. 65:8–16)Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.
10All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
#(Is. 28:15); Jer. 5:12; Amos 6:3Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’
Israel Will Be Restored
11“On#Acts 15:16–18 that day I will raise up
The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
And repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12#Obad. 19That they may possess the remnant of #Num. 24:18; Is. 11:14Edom,
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
Says the Lord who does this thing.
13“Behold, #Lev. 26:5the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
#Joel 3:18The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,
And all the hills shall flow with it.
14#Ps. 53:6; Is. 60:4; Jer. 30:3, 18I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
#Is. 61:4They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
15I will plant them in their land,
#Is. 60:21; Ezek. 34:28; 37:25And no longer shall they be pulled up
From the land I have given them,”
Says the Lord your God.
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Amos 9
9
Vision of the Lord Standing by the Altar
1I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said,
“Hit the top of the columns,
and shake them to the ground.
Push them and they will fall
on everyone’s head.
As for those who survive,
I will kill them with a sword.
None of them will run away.
None of them will escape.
2If they dig deep into the ground,#9:2 ground Literally, “Sheol, the place of the dead.”
I will pull them from there.
If they go up into the skies,#9:2 skies Or “heaven.”
I will bring them down from there.
3If they hide at the top of Mount Carmel,#9:3 Mount Carmel A mountain in northern Israel. This name means “God’s vineyard.” This shows that it was a very fertile hill.
I will find them there and take them from that place.
If they try to hide from me at the bottom of the sea,
I will command the snake, and it will bite them.
4If they are captured and taken away by their enemies,
I will command the sword,
and it will kill them there.
Yes, I will watch over them,
but I will watch for ways to give them troubles,
not for ways to do good things.”
Punishment Will Destroy the People
5The Lord GOD All-Powerful will touch the land,
and the land will melt.
Then all the people who live in the land will cry for the dead.
The land will rise and fall
like the Nile River in Egypt.
6He built his upper rooms above the skies.
He put his skies#9:6 skies Literally, “dome” or “vault.” over the earth.
He calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out as rain on the land.
YAHWEH is his name.
The Lord Promises Destruction for Israel
7This is what the Lord says:
“Israel, you are like the Ethiopians to me.
I brought Israel out of the land of Egypt,
the Philistines from Caphtor,#9:7 Caphtor An island west of Israel, probably Crete or Cyprus.
and the Arameans from Kir.#9:7 Kir Where the Arameans came from and where the Assyrians sent them in exile. There are several places with this name.”
8The Lord GOD is watching this sinful kingdom.
The Lord says,
“I will wipe Israel off the face of the earth,
but I will never completely destroy Jacob’s family.
9I am giving the command
to scatter the people of Israel among all nations.
But it will be like someone sifting flour.
A person shakes flour through a sifter.#9:9 sifter Something like a cup with a screen on its bottom. A sifter is used for removing large lumps from the good flour.
The good flour falls through, but the bad lumps are caught.
10“Sinners among my people say,
‘Nothing bad will happen to us.’
But all of them will be killed with swords.”
God Promises to Restore the Kingdom
11“David’s tent#9:11 David’s tent This probably means the city of Jerusalem or the country of Judah. has fallen,
but at that time I will set it up again.
I will fix its holes and repair its ruined parts.
I will set it up as it was before.
12Then the people left alive in Edom,
and all the people called by my name, will look to me for help.”
This is what the Lord said,
and he will make it happen.
13The Lord says, “A time of great blessing is coming.
Workers will still be harvesting
when it is time to plow the fields again.
They will still be trampling the grapes
when it is time for a new crop.
Sweet wine will drip from the mountains
and pour from the hills.
14I will bring my people, Israel,
back from captivity.
They will rebuild the ruined cities,
and they will live in them.
They will plant vineyards
and drink the wine they produce.
They will plant gardens
and eat the crops they produce.
15I will plant my people on their land,
and never again will they be pulled up out of the land that I gave them.”
This is what the Lord your God said.
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