Amos 7-9

New International Version

⁹ “The high places^(Q) of Isaac will be destroyed
    and the sanctuaries^(R) of Israel will be ruined;
    with my sword I will rise against the house of Jeroboam.^(S)”

“‘Jeroboam will die by the sword,
    and Israel will surely go into exile,^(X)
    away from their native land.’”^(Y)

“‘Do not prophesy against^(AL) Israel,
    and stop preaching against the descendants of Isaac.’

“‘Your wife will become a prostitute^(AM) in the city,
    and your sons and daughters will fall by the sword.
Your land will be measured and divided up,
    and you yourself will die in a pagan^[c] country.
And Israel will surely go into exile,^(AN)
    away from their native land.^(AO)’”

⁴ Hear this, you who trample the needy
    and do away with the poor^(AW) of the land,^(AX)

“When will the New Moon^(AY) be over
    that we may sell grain,
and the Sabbath be ended
    that we may market^(AZ) wheat?”^(BA)—
skimping on the measure,
    boosting the price
    and cheating^(BB) with dishonest scales,^(BC)
6 buying the poor^(BD) with silver
    and the needy for a pair of sandals,
    selling even the sweepings with the wheat.^(BE)

⁸ “Will not the land tremble^(BI) for this,
    and all who live in it mourn?
The whole land will rise like the Nile;
    it will be stirred up and then sink
    like the river of Egypt.^(BJ)

“I will make the sun go down at noon
    and darken the earth in broad daylight.^(BK)
10 I will turn your religious festivals^(BL) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.^(BM)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth^(BN)
    and shave^(BO) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son^(BP)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.^(BQ)

¹¹ “The days are coming,”^(BR) declares the Sovereign Lord,
    “when I will send a famine through the land—
not a famine of food or a thirst for water,
    but a famine^(BS) of hearing the words of the Lord.^(BT)
12 People will stagger from sea to sea
    and wander from north to east,
searching for the word of the Lord,
    but they will not find it.^(BU)

“the lovely young women and strong young men^(BV)
    will faint because of thirst.^(BW)
14 Those who swear by the sin of Samaria^(BX)—
    who say, ‘As surely as your god lives, Dan,’^(BY)
    or, ‘As surely as the god^[e] of Beersheba^(BZ) lives’—
    they will fall,^(CA) never to rise again.^(CB)”

“Strike the tops of the pillars
    so that the thresholds shake.
Bring them down on the heads^(CC) of all the people;
    those who are left I will kill with the sword.
Not one will get away,
    none will escape.^(CD)
2 Though they dig down to the depths below,^(CE)
    from there my hand will take them.
Though they climb up to the heavens above,^(CF)
    from there I will bring them down.^(CG)
3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,^(CH)
    there I will hunt them down and seize them.^(CI)
Though they hide from my eyes at the bottom of the sea,^(CJ)
    there I will command the serpent^(CK) to bite them.^(CL)
4 Though they are driven into exile by their enemies,
    there I will command the sword^(CM) to slay them.

“I will keep my eye on them
    for harm^(CN) and not for good.^(CO)”^(CP)

⁵ The Lord, the Lord Almighty—
he touches the earth and it melts,^(CQ)
    and all who live in it mourn;
the whole land rises like the Nile,
    then sinks like the river of Egypt;^(CR)
6 he builds his lofty palace^[f](CS) in the heavens
    and sets its foundation^[g] 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.^(CT)

⁷ “Are not you Israelites
    the same to me as the Cushites^[h]?”^(CU)
declares the Lord.
“Did I not bring Israel up from Egypt,
    the Philistines^(CV) from Caphtor^[i](CW)
    and the Arameans from Kir?^(CX)

⁸ “Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lord
    are on the sinful kingdom.
I will destroy^(CY) it
    from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not totally destroy
    the descendants of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.^(CZ)
9 “For I will give the command,
    and I will shake the people of Israel
    among all the nations
as grain^(DA) is shaken in a sieve,^(DB)
    and not a pebble will reach the ground.^(DC)
10 All the sinners among my people
    will die by the sword,^(DD)
all those who say,
    ‘Disaster will not overtake or meet us.’^(DE)

“I will restore David’s^(DF) fallen shelter^(DG)—
    I will repair its broken walls
    and restore its ruins^(DH)—
    and will rebuild it as it used to be,^(DI)
12 so that they may possess the remnant of Edom^(DJ)
    and all the nations that bear my name,^[j](DK)”
declares the Lord, who will do these things.^(DL)

“when the reaper^(DN) will be overtaken by the plowman^(DO)
    and the planter by the one treading^(DP) grapes.
New wine^(DQ) will drip from the mountains
    and flow from all the hills,^(DR)
14     and I will bring^(DS) my people Israel back from exile.^[k](DT)

“They will rebuild the ruined cities^(DU) and live in them.
    They will plant vineyards^(DV) and drink their wine;
    they will make gardens and eat their fruit.^(DW)
15 I will plant^(DX) Israel in their own land,^(DY)
    never again to be uprooted^(DZ)
    from the land I have given them,”^(EA)

says the Lord your God.^(EB)