Amos 9:1-10

Modern English Version

Strike the capitals
    so that the thresholds shake;
break them off onto the heads of all of them.
    Those who remain I will slay with the sword.
Not one of them will get away;
    not one fugitive will survive.
² Though they dig down to Sheol,
    from there My hand will capture them;
though they climb up to the heavens,
    from there I will bring them down;
³ though they hide on the top of Carmel,
    from there I will search and catch them;
though they hide from My sight on the bottom of the sea,
    from there will I command the serpent to bite them;
⁴ and though they go into captivity before their enemies,
    from there will I command the sword to slay them.

I will set My eyes upon them
    for evil and not for good.

⁵ The Lord God of Hosts,
    He who touches the earth and it melts,
    and all who live on it mourn;
it all rises up like the Nile,
    and subsides like the river of Egypt;
⁶ who builds His chambers in the heavens,
    and founds His vault over the earth;
who summons the waters of the sea,
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
    the Lord is His name.

⁷ Are you not like the Ethiopians to Me,
    O children of Israel?
    says the Lord.
Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt,
    but also the Philistines from Caphtor,
    and the Arameans from Kir?

⁸ The eyes of the Lord God
    are upon the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it
    from off the face of the earth,
though I will not completely destroy
    the house of Jacob,
    says the Lord.
⁹ See, I am giving the command,
    and I will sift the house of Israel
    among all the nations,
as one sifts with a sieve,
    and not a pebble falls to the ground.
¹⁰ All the sinners of My people
    will die by the sword,
those who say,
    “Never will disaster reach or overtake us.”