11 “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord God,
    “when (A)I will send a famine on the land—
not a famine of bread, nor a thirst for water,
    (B)but of hearing the words of the Lord.
12 (C)They shall wander from sea to sea,
    and from north to east;
they shall run to and fro, to seek the word of the Lord,
    (D)but they shall not find it.

13 (E)“In that day the lovely virgins and the young men
    shall (F)faint for thirst.
14 Those who swear by (G)the Guilt of Samaria,
    and say, ‘As your god lives, O Dan,’
and, ‘As (H)the Way of (I)Beersheba lives,’
    they shall fall, and never rise again.”

The Destruction of Israel

I saw the Lord standing beside[a] the altar, and he said:

(J)“Strike the capitals until (K)the thresholds (L)shake,
    (M)and shatter them on the heads of all the people;[b]
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
    (N)not one of them shall flee away;
    not one of them shall escape.

(O)“If they dig into Sheol,
    from there shall my hand take them;
(P)if they climb up to heaven,
    from there I will bring them down.
If they hide themselves on (Q)the top of Carmel,
    from there I will search them out and take them;
(R)and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
    there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
(S)And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
    there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
(T)and I will fix my eyes upon them
    for evil and not for good.”

The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and (U)it melts,
    and all who dwell in it mourn,
(V)and all of it rises like the Nile,
    (W)and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
(X)who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and founds his vault upon the earth;
(Y)who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
(Z)the Lord is his name.

“Are you not like (AA)the Cushites to me,
    O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
(AB)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and (AC)the Philistines from (AD)Caphtor and the Syrians from (AE)Kir?
Behold, (AF)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
    and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
    (AG)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.

“For behold, I will command,
    (AH)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, (AI)‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

The Restoration of Israel

11 “In that day (AJ)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,

Footnotes

  1. Amos 9:1 Or on
  2. Amos 9:1 Hebrew all of them

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