Amos 9:7-15

New Living Translation

⁷“Are you Israelites more important to me
    than the Ethiopians?^[a]” asks the Lord.
“I brought Israel out of Egypt,
    but I also brought the Philistines from Crete^[b]
    and led the Arameans out of Kir.

⁸“I, the Sovereign Lord,
    am watching this sinful nation of Israel.
I will destroy it
    from the face of the earth.
But I will never completely destroy the family of Israel,^[c]”
    says the Lord.
⁹“For I will give the command
    and will shake Israel along with the other nations
as grain is shaken in a sieve,
    yet not one true kernel will be lost.
¹⁰But all the sinners will die by the sword—
    all those who say, ‘Nothing bad will happen to us.’

A Promise of Restoration

¹¹“In that day I will restore the fallen house^[d] of David.
    I will repair its damaged walls.
From the ruins I will rebuild it
    and restore its former glory.
¹²And Israel will possess what is left of Edom
    and all the nations I have called to be mine.^[e]”
The Lord has spoken,
    and he will do these things.

¹³“The time will come,” says the Lord,
“when the grain and grapes will grow faster
    than they can be harvested.
Then the terraced vineyards on the hills of Israel
    will drip with sweet wine!
¹⁴I will bring my exiled people of Israel
    back from distant lands,
and they will rebuild their ruined cities
    and live in them again.
They will plant vineyards and gardens;
    they will eat their crops and drink their wine.
¹⁵I will firmly plant them there
    in their own land.
They will never again be uprooted
    from the land I have given them,”
    says the Lord your God.

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Footnotes

9:7a Hebrew the Cushites?
9:7b Hebrew Caphtor.
9:8 Hebrew the house of Jacob. See note on 3:13.
9:11a Or kingdom; Hebrew reads tent.
9:11b-12 Greek version reads and restore its former glory, / so that the rest of humanity, including the Gentiles— / all those I have called to be mine—might seek me. Compare Acts 15:16-17.