Amos 9:3-13

3 "Though they hide on the summit of Carmel, I will ¹search them out and take them from there; And though they ²conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea, From there I will command the ³serpent and it will bite them.

4 "And though they go into ⁴captivity before their enemies, From there I will command the sword that it slay them, And I will ⁵set My eyes against them for evil and not for good."

5 The Lord GOD of hosts, The One who ⁶touches the land so that it melts, And ⁷all those who dwell in it mourn, And all of it rises up like the Nile And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;

6 The One who builds His ⁸upper chambers in the heavens And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth, He who ⁹calls for the waters of the sea And ¹⁰pours them out on the face of the earth, ¹¹The LORD is His name.

7 "Are you not as the sons of ¹²Ethiopia to Me, O sons of Israel?" declares the LORD. "Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt, And the ¹³Philistines from Caphtor and the ¹⁴Arameans from ¹⁵Kir?

8 "Behold, the ¹⁶eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, And I will ¹⁷destroy it from the face of the earth; Nevertheless *, I will ¹⁸not totally destroy the house of Jacob," Declares the LORD.

9 "For behold, I am commanding, And I will ¹⁹shake the house of Israel among all nations As grain is shaken in a sieve, But not a kernel will fall to the ground.

10 "All the ²⁰sinners of My people will die by the sword, Those who say, '²¹The calamity will not overtake or confront us.'

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11 "In that day I will ²²raise up the fallen ²³booth of David, And wall up its ²⁴breaches; I will also raise up its ruins And rebuild it as in the ²⁵days of old;

12 ²⁶That they may possess the remnant of ²⁷Edom And all the nations who are ²⁸called by My name," Declares the LORD who does this.

13 "Behold, days are coming," declares the LORD, "When the ²⁹plowman will overtake the reaper And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; When the ³⁰mountains will drip sweet ³¹wine And all the hills will be dissolved.

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Amos 9:3-13 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO AMOS 9

This chapter contains the fifth and last vision the prophet saw; which represents the certain desolation of the land, city, and temple, and the slaughter of all sorts of persons, high and low, none should escape it, Am 9:1; be they where they would, they should be found out, whether in hell or heaven, on the tops of the highest mountains, or in the bottom of the sea, or in a foreign land, since the eyes of the Lord were upon them for evil, Am 9:2-4; nor could they hope to escape, when they considered his greatness and his power, and what he could do, and had done; and how they had behaved towards him, even though they were the people he had brought out of Egypt, Am 9:5-7; but though the sinful kingdom should be destroyed, yet not utterly, a remnant should be saved, Am 9:8-10; and the chapter is concluded with gracious promises of raising up the tabernacle of David fallen down, and of the return of the people of Israel to their own land; and of their settlement and continuance in it, never more to depart from it, Am 9:11-15.

Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible

Cross References 31

1. Jeremiah 16:16
2. Job 34:22; Psalms 139:9, 10
3. Isaiah 27:1
4. Leviticus 26:33
5. Leviticus 17:10; Jeremiah 21:10; Jeremiah 39:16; Jeremiah 44:11
6. Psalms 104:32; Psalms 144:5; Isaiah 64:1; Micah 1:4
7. Amos 8:8
8. Psalms 104:3, 13
9. Amos 5:8
10. Psalms 104:6
11. Amos 4:13
12. 2 Chronicles 14:9, 12; Isaiah 20:4; Isaiah 43:3
13. Deuteronomy 2:23; Jeremiah 47:4
14. Amos 1:5
15. 2 Kings 16:9; Isaiah 22:6
16. Jeremiah 44:27; Amos 9:4
17. Amos 7:17; Amos 9:10
18. Jeremiah 5:10; Jeremiah 30:11; Jeremiah 31:35, 36; Joel 2:32; Amos 3:12; Obadiah 17
19. Isaiah 30:28; Luke 22:31
20. Isaiah 33:14; Zechariah 13:8
21. Amos 6:3
22. Acts 15:16-18
23. Isaiah 16:5
24. Psalms 80:12
25. Isaiah 63:11; Jeremiah 46:26
26. Obadiah 19
27. Numbers 24:18; Isaiah 11:14
28. Isaiah 43:7
29. Leviticus 26:5
30. Joel 3:18
31. Genesis 49:11

Footnotes 5

[a]. Heb "YHWH," usually rendered LORD, and so throughout the ch
[b]. Or "stairs"
[c]. Or "pebble"
[d]. Or "shelter" or "tabernacle"
[e]. Or "Gentiles"