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