Amos 9:1-10

I saw the Lord standing over the altar, and he gave the command: “Smash the top of the pillars so that the foundations shake! Shatter the pillars and make them crumble upon the heads of all the worshipers. And any survivors I will kill by the sword. Whoever runs away will not go far. Whoever tries to escape will not make it. Even if they were to dig their way down to the underworld, my hand would haul them out. Even if they were to climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there. If they were to hide on top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and snatch them. If they were to try to hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea, I would order the serpent there to bite them. If their enemies were to herd them into captivity, even there I would order the sword to kill them. Yes, I will fix my eyes on them to destroy them and not to help them.” Lord YAHWEH, Commander of Angel Armies, you touch the earth and it melts, and everyone on earth mourns. All of the land will rise up like the river Nile— inundated and stirred up by floodwaters— and then subside, just like the river of Egypt. You build your lofty stairway in the heavens and suspend your superdome over the earth. You summon the waters of the sea and pour them over the face of the earth: YAHWEH is your name! YAHWEH “Israel, I think as much of the Ethiopians as I do of you; you’re all the same to me,” declares YAHWEH. “Yes, I brought you out from Egypt. But didn’t I also bring out the Philistines from Crete and the Syrians from Kir? Behold, the eyes of Lord YAHWEH are on the sinful kingdom of Israel. I will wipe it off the face of the earth. Yet I will not completely destroy the descendants of Jacob,” declares YAHWEH. “Behold, I will speak the command to scatter the people of Israel among all the nations. I will sift them the way sand is shaken in a sieve, through which not a single pebble falls to the ground. All the sinners of my people will die by the sword who say, ‘Nothing bad could ever happen to us.’ ”