Jubilee2000 - Amos - 9

9:1  I saw the Lord standing upon the altar, and he said, Smite the threshold and shake the doors and cut the head of them all into pieces; and I will slay the last of them with the sword; there shall be none of them [left] to flee away or to escape.

9:2  Though they dig unto Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down;

9:3  and though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out of there; and though they hide from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there will I command the serpent, and he shall bite them:

9:4  and though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.

9:5  The Lord GOD of the hosts [is] he that touches the earth, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall all rise up like [a] river and shall be sunk, as the river of Egypt.

9:6  He that built his degrees in the heaven and has founded his gathering upon the earth; he that calls the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name.

9:7  O sons of Israel, [Are] ye not as sons of the Ethiopians unto me, said the LORD? Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Palestinians from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

9:8  Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] against 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, said the LORD.

9:9  For, behold, I will command, and I will cause the house of Israel to be sifted among all the Gentiles like as [the grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall to the earth.

9:10  All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, For our sake the evil shall not come near nor overtake us.

9:11  In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen and close up its breaches; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:

9:12  that those who are called by my name may possess the remnant of Edom and all the Gentiles, said the LORD that does this.

9:13  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall catch up with the reaper, and the treader of grapes with him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop new wine, and all the hills shall melt.

9:14  And I will turn 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  For I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, said the LORD thy God.: