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Amos 9

9 In another vision, I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said,

“Strike the tops of the pillars of the temple so hard that the thresholds shake,

and shatter them so that the pieces fall down on all the people there and crush them.

I will cause enemies to kill with swords anyone who survives.

None of them will be able to run away and escape.

2 Even if they dig down to the place where dead people go as they try to escape from me,

I will reach down there and seize them.

Even if they climb up to the sky,

I will bring them down from there.

3 Even if they hide themselves on the top of Mount Carmel,

I will search for them there and capture them.

Even if they hide from me at the bottom of the sea,

I will command the sea snake there to bite them.

4 Even if their enemies capture them and force them to march away as exiles,

I will command those enemies to kill them there with their swords.

I will continually do things to harm them,

not to help them.”

5 Yahweh our Lord, the commander of the heavenly armies,

is the one who can make the earth melt by touching it,

so that everyone who lives in it mourns.

He can make the whole land rise up and then sink down again,

just as the Nile River in Egypt rises and falls.

6 He made the stairway to his palace in the sky,

and he set his dome of the sky firmly in place above the earth.

He gathers up the water from the sea

and pours it out as rain on the surface of the ground.

The name of the one who does all this is Yahweh!

7 Yahweh declares this: “You people of Israel, you are just like the people of Cush to me.

It is true that I brought your ancestors out of the land of Egypt,

but I also brought the Philistines from the land of Caphtor and the Arameans from the region of Kir.

8 Listen! I, Yahweh your Lord, am fully aware of how sinful you people are in the kingdom of Israel,

so I will destroy your kingdom and remove it from existing on the earth.

However, I will not completely destroy all of the descendants of Jacob.”

That is what Yahweh declares.

9 Yahweh also says, “Listen! This will happen because I am giving the command

to send you people of Israel to live among all the nations,

and there it will be as though I am shaking you in a sieveto sort you out into those who are faithful and those who are not faithful, just as a farmer shakes a sieve to separate grain from the stones.

It will be as though not one pebble slips through the sieve and falls to the ground,

because not one of the unfaithful people among you will escape.

10 All of the sinful ones among my people will die as enemies kill them with swords.

They are the ones who say that nothing bad will ever happen to them.

11 At that time I will restore

the kingdom that King David once ruled, the kingdom that sinners have ruined.

I will repair it and rebuild it,

and I will cause it to prosper again, as it did long ago,

12 so that the kingdom of my people may contain those who remain in Edom

and those who belong to me in all of the nations.”

That is what Yahweh declares, and he is the one who will do it.

13 Yahweh declares this: “Listen! The time is coming when your crops will grow so well it will be as if

those who plow the ground will catch up with those who are still harvesting the grain,

and those who tread on the grapes will still be working when the sowers are ready to start planting the seed.

There will be so much sweet wine

that it will seem as if it will flow down from the mountains and that all of the hills will melt with it.

14 I will bring back those of my people Israel who had been captives in other nations.

They will rebuild the cities that now lie in ruins, and they will live in them.

They will plant vineyards and drink the wine that comes from them,

and they will plant gardens and eat the fruit that grows in them.

15 I will settle my people securely in their own land,

and no one will ever remove them again from the land that I gave to them.”

That is what Yahweh your God says.

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