Amos 9:2-12

2 Though they dig down to the depths below, from there my hand will take them. Though they climb up to the heavens above, from there I will bring them down.
3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, there I will hunt them down and seize them. Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent to bite them.
4 Though they are driven into exile by their enemies, there I will command the sword to slay them. “I will keep my eye on them for harm and not for good.”
5 The Lord, the LORD Almighty— he touches the earth and it melts, and all who live in it mourn; the whole land rises like the Nile, then sinks like the river of Egypt;
6 he builds his lofty palace[a] in the heavens and sets its foundation[b] on the earth; he calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out over the face of the land— the LORD is his name.
7 “Are not you Israelites the same to me as the Cushites[c] ?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor[d]and the Arameans from Kir?
8 “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign LORDare on the sinful kingdom. I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not totally destroy the descendants of Jacob,” declares the LORD.
9 “For I will give the command, and I will shake the people of Israel among all the nations as grain is shaken in a sieve, and not a pebble will reach the ground.
10 All the sinners among my people will die by the sword, all those who say, ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’

Israel’s Restoration

11 “In that day I will restore David’s fallen shelter— I will repair its broken walls and restore its ruins— and will rebuild it as it used to be,
12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations that bear my name,[e] ” declares the LORD, who will do these things.

Cross References 35

  • 1. S Job 7:9; S Ezekiel 26:20; Psalms 139:8
  • 2. Jeremiah 51:53
  • 3. Obadiah 1:4
  • 4. Amos 1:2
  • 5. Psalms 139:8-10
  • 6. Psalms 68:22
  • 7. Isaiah 27:1
  • 8. Jeremiah 16:16-17
  • 9. S Genesis 49:17; S Job 11:20
  • 10. S Leviticus 26:33; S Ezekiel 5:12
  • 11. S Jeremiah 21:10
  • 12. Jeremiah 39:16; S Ezekiel 15:7
  • 13. S Jeremiah 44:11
  • 14. S Psalms 46:2; Micah 1:4
  • 15. S Amos 8:8
  • 16. Jeremiah 43:9
  • 17. Ps 104:1-3,5-6,13; S Amos 5:8
  • 18. S 2 Chronicles 12:3; Isaiah 20:4; Isaiah 43:3
  • 19. S Genesis 10:14
  • 20. S Deuteronomy 2:23; Jeremiah 47:4
  • 21. S 2 Kings 16:9; S Isaiah 22:6; S Amos 1:5; Amos 2:10
  • 22. S Jeremiah 4:27
  • 23. S Jeremiah 44:27
  • 24. Luke 22:31
  • 25. Isaiah 30:28
  • 26. S Jeremiah 31:36; S Daniel 9:7
  • 27. Jeremiah 49:37
  • 28. Jeremiah 5:12; S Jeremiah 23:17; S Ezekiel 20:38; S Amos 6:3
  • 29. S Isaiah 7:2
  • 30. S Genesis 26:22
  • 31. Psalms 53:6; S Isaiah 49:8
  • 32. Psalms 80:12; S Ezekiel 17:24; Micah 7:8,11; Zechariah 12:7; Zechariah 14:10
  • 33. S Numbers 24:18
  • 34. Isaiah 43:7; Jeremiah 25:29
  • 35. Acts 15:16-17*

Footnotes 5

  • [a]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this phrase is uncertain.
  • [b]. The meaning of the Hebrew for this word is uncertain.
  • [c]. That is, people from the upper Nile region
  • [d]. That is, Crete
  • [e]. Hebrew; Septuagint "so that the remnant of people" / "and all the nations that bear my name may seek me"
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