The In-Dept Study of the Bible
Amos 09
1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar,
and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars,
thatthe thresholds may shake. Break them
in pieces on the head of all of them. I will
kill the last of them with the sword. Not
one ofthem will flee away. Not one ofthem
will escape.
2 Though they dig into Sheol,† there my
hand will take them; and though they
climb up to heaven, there I will bring them
down.
3 Though they hide themselves in the top
of Carmel, I will search and take them out
from there; and though they be hidden
from my sight in the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent, and it
will bite them.
4 Though they go into captivity before
their enemies, there I will command the
sword, and it will kill them. I will set my
eyes on them for evil, and not for good.
5 For the Lord, Yahweh of Armies, is he
who touches the land and it melts, and
all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will
rise up wholly like the River, and will sink
again, like the River of Egypt.
6 It is he who builds his rooms in the
heavens, and has founded his vault on the
earth; he who calls for the waters of the
sea, and pours them out on the surface of
the earth—Yahweh is his name.
7 Are you not like the children of the
Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says
Yahweh. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out
of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines
from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8 Behold, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh
are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy
it from off the surface of the earth,
except that I will not utterly destroy the
house of Jacob,” says Yahweh.
9 “For behold, I will command, and I
will sift the house of Israel among all the
nations as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not
the least kernel will fall on the earth.
10 All the sinners of my people will die
by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake
nor meet us.’
11 In that day I will raise up the tent
of David who 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,
12 that they may possess the remnant of
Edom and allthe nations who are called by
my name,” says Yahweh who does this.
13 “Behold, the days come,” says Yahweh,
“that the plowman shall overtake the
reaper, and the one treading grapes him who
sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the
mountains, and flow from the hills.
14 I will bring my people Israel back from
captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities,
and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and
drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens,
and eat their fruit.
15 I will plant them on their land,
and they will no more be plucked up
out of their land which I have given
them, says Yahweh your God.