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Amos 9 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

God’s Judgment Unavoidable

9 I saw the Lord standing beside the ^(A)altar, and He said,

“Strike the pillar capitals so that the ^(B)thresholds will shake,
And ^(C)break them on the heads of them all!
Then I will ^(D)put to death the rest of them with the sword;
They will ^(E)not have a fugitive who will flee,
Nor a survivor who will escape.
²Though they dig into ^(F)Sheol,
From there My hand will take them;
And though they ^(G)ascend to heaven,
From there I will bring them down.
³And though they hide on the summit of Carmel,
I will ^(H)track them down and take them from there;
And though they ^(I)hide themselves from My sight on the bottom of the sea,
I will command the ^(J)serpent from there, and it will bite them.
⁴And though they go into ^(K)captivity before their enemies,
From there I will command the sword and it will kill them,
And I will ^(L)set My eyes against them for harm and not for good.”

⁵The Lord ^[a]God of armies,
The One who ^(M)touches the land so that it quakes,
And ^(N)all those who live in it mourn,
And all of it rises up like the Nile
And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;
⁶The One who builds His ^(O)upper chambers in the heavens
And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth,
He who ^(P)calls for the waters of the sea
And ^(Q)pours them out on the face of the earth,
^(R)The Lord is His name.

⁷“Are you not as the sons of ^(S)Ethiopia to Me,
You sons of Israel?” declares the Lord.
“Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt,
And the ^(T)Philistines from Caphtor and the ^(U)Arameans from ^(V)Kir?
⁸Behold, the ^(W)eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I will ^(X)eliminate it from the face of the earth;
Nevertheless, I will ^(Y)not totally eliminate the house of Jacob,”
Declares the Lord.
⁹“For behold, I am commanding,
And I will ^(Z)shake the house of Israel among all nations
As grain is shaken in a sieve,
But not a pebble will fall to the ground.
¹⁰All the ^(AA)sinners of My people will die by the sword,
Those who say, ‘^(AB)The catastrophe will not overtake or confront us.’

The Restoration of Israel

¹¹“On that day I will ^(AC)raise up the fallen ^[b]^(AD)shelter of David,
And wall up its ^(AE)gaps;
I will also raise up its ruins
And rebuild it as in the ^(AF)days of old;
¹²^(AG)So that they may ^[c]possess the remnant of ^(AH)Edom
And all the ^[d]nations who are ^(AI)called by My name,”
Declares the Lord who does this.

¹³“Behold, days are coming,” declares the Lord,
“When the ^(AJ)plowman will overtake the reaper,
And the one who treads grapes will overtake him who sows the seed;
When the ^(AK)mountains will drip grape juice,
And all the hills will come apart.
¹⁴I will also ^(AL)restore the fortunes of My people Israel,
And they will ^(AM)rebuild the desolated cities and live in them;
They will also ^(AN)plant vineyards and drink their wine,
And make gardens and eat their fruit.
¹⁵I will also plant them on their land,
And ^(AO)they will not be uprooted again from their land
Which I have given them,”
Says the Lord your God.

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