Amos 9:5-15

English Standard Version

⁵The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and ^(A)it melts,
    and all who dwell in it mourn,
^(B)and all of it rises like the Nile,
    ^(C)and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
⁶^(D)who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and founds his vault upon the earth;
^(E)who calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
^(F)the Lord is his name.

⁷“Are you not like ^(G)the Cushites to me,
    O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
^(H)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and ^(I)the Philistines from ^(J)Caphtor and the Syrians from ^(K)Kir?
⁸Behold, ^(L)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
    and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
    ^(M)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.

⁹“For behold, I will command,
    ^(N)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
¹⁰All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
    who say, ^(O)‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

The Restoration of Israel

¹¹“In that day ^(P)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^(Q)that they may possess the remnant of Edom
    and ^(R)all the nations who are called by my name,”^[a]
    declares the Lord who does this.

¹³“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    ^(S)“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
    and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
^(T)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and all the hills shall flow with it.
¹⁴^(U)I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
    and ^(V)they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
^(W)they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
    and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
¹⁵^(X)I will plant them on their land,
    ^(Y)and they shall never again be uprooted
    out of the land ^(Z)that I have given them,”
says the Lord your God.