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Amos 9 New King James Version (NKJV)

The Destruction of Israel

9 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:

“Strike the ^[a]doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
And ^(A)break them on the heads of them all.
I will slay the last of them with the sword.
^(B)He who flees from them shall not get away,
And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.

²“Though^(C) they dig into ^[b]hell,
From there My hand shall take them;
^(D)Though they climb up to heaven,
From there I will bring them down;
³And though they ^(E)hide themselves on top of Carmel,
From there I will search and take them;
Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
⁴Though they go into captivity before their enemies,
From there ^(F)I will command the sword,
And it shall slay them.
^(G)I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”

⁵The Lord God of hosts,
He who touches the earth and it ^(H)melts,
^(I)And all who dwell there mourn;
All of it shall swell like ^[c]the River,
And subside like the River of Egypt.
⁶He who builds His ^(J)layers^[d] in the sky,
And has founded His strata in the earth;
Who ^(K)calls for the waters of the sea,
And pours them out on the face of the earth—
^(L)The Lord is His name.

⁷“Are you not like the ^[e]people of Ethiopia to Me,
O children of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
The ^(M)Philistines from ^(N)Caphtor,^[f]
And the Syrians from ^(O)Kir?

⁸“Behold, ^(P)the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I ^(Q)will destroy it from the face of the earth;
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
Says the Lord.

⁹“For surely I will command,
And will ^[g]sift the house of Israel among all nations,
As grain is sifted in a sieve;
^(R)Yet not the smallest ^[h]grain shall fall to the ground.
¹⁰All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
^(S)Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’

Israel Will Be Restored

¹¹“On^(T) that day I will raise up
The ^[i]tabernacle of David, which has fallen down,
And ^[j]repair its damages;
I will raise up its ruins,
And rebuild it as in the days of old;
¹²^(U)That they may possess the remnant of ^(V)Edom,^[k]
And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
Says the Lord who does this thing.

¹³“Behold, ^(W)the days are coming,” says the Lord,
“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
^(X)The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,
And all the hills shall flow with it.
¹⁴^(Y)I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
^(Z)They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
¹⁵I will plant them in their land,
^(AA)And no longer shall they be pulled up
From the land I have given them,”
Says the Lord your God.

New King James Version (NKJV)