Berean Standard Bible

Amos 9:7-15

7“Are you not like the Cushites1 to Me, O children of Israel?” declares the LORD. “Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt, the Philistines from Caphtor,2 and the Arameans from Kir?8Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.9“For surely I will give the command, and I will shake the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve; but not a pebble will reach the ground.10All the sinners among My people will die by the sword— all those who say, ‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”

11“In that day I will restorethe fallen tent of David.I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins,and rebuild it as in the days of old,12that they may possess the remnant of Edomand all the nations that bear My name,”3declares the LORD, who will do this.13“Behold, the days are coming,”declares the LORD,“when the plowman will overtake the reaperand the treader of grapes, the sower of seed.The mountains will drip with sweet wine,with which all the hills will flow.14I will restore My people Israel from captivity;4they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities.They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;they will make gardens and eat their fruit.15I will firmly plant them in their own land,never again to be uprootedfrom the land that I have given them,”says the LORD your God.

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1. Amos 9:7 That is, people from the upper Nile region ↩
2. Amos 9:7 That is, Crete ↩
3. Amos 9:12 Hebrew; LXX that the remnant of men, and all the nations that bear My name, may earnestly seek Me; cited in Acts 15:16–18 ↩
4. Amos 9:14 Or restore the fortunes of My people Israel ↩

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