^(A)“Strike the capitals until ^(B)the thresholds ^(C)shake,
    ^(D)and shatter them on the heads of all the people;^[b]
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
    ^(E)not one of them shall flee away;
    not one of them shall escape.
^2 (F)“If they dig into Sheol,
    from there shall my hand take them;
^(G)if they climb up to heaven,
    from there I will bring them down.
³ If they hide themselves on ^(H)the top of Carmel,
    from there I will search them out and take them;
^(I)and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
    there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
^4 (J)And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
    there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
^(K)and I will fix my eyes upon them
    for evil and not for good.”
⁵ The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and ^(L)it melts,
    and all who dwell in it mourn,
^(M)and all of it rises like the Nile,
    ^(N)and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
^6 (O)who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and founds his vault upon the earth;
^(P)who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
^(Q)the Lord is his name.
⁷ “Are you not like ^(R)the Cushites to me,
    O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
^(S)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and ^(T)the Philistines from ^(U)Caphtor and the Syrians from ^(V)Kir?
⁸ Behold, ^(W)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
    and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
    ^(X)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.
⁹ “For behold, I will command,
    ^(Y)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
¹⁰ All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
    who say, ^(Z)‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

¹¹ “In that day ^(AA)I will raise up
    the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches,
    and raise up its ruins
    and rebuild it as in the days of old,
^12 (AB)that they may possess the remnant of Edom
    and ^(AC)all the nations who are called by my name,”^[c]
    declares the Lord who does this.
¹³ “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    ^(AD)“when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper
    and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
^(AE)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and all the hills shall flow with it.
^14 (AF)I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
    and ^(AG)they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
^(AH)they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
    and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
^15 (AI)I will plant them on their land,
    ^(AJ)and they shall never again be uprooted
    out of the land ^(AK)that I have given them,”
says the Lord your God.