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AMOS ยท Chapter 9
9:1 I saw the LORD standing upon the altar: and he said, Strike the
lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head,
all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that flees
of them shall not flee away, and he that escapes of them shall not be delivered.
9:2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though
they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:
9:3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search
and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom
of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:
9:4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence
will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes
upon them for evil, and not for good.
9:5 And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that touches the land, and it shall
melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly
like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
9:6 It is he that builds his stories in the heaven, and has founded
his troop in the earth; he that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours
them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD is his name.
9:7 Are all of you not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children
of Israel? says the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land
of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
9:8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and
I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not
utterly destroy the house of Jacob, says the LORD.
9:9 For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among
all nations, like corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain
fall upon the earth.
9:10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say,
The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
9:11 In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen,
and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I
will build it as in the days of old:
9:12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen,
which are called by my name, says the LORD that does this.
9:13 Behold, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake
the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains
shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.
9:14 And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and
they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they shall plant
vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and
eat the fruit of them.
9:15 And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more
be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your
God.
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