New American Standard Bible 1995

Amos 9:2-10

2Though they dig into 1Sheol, From there will My hand take them; And though they 2ascend to heaven, From there will I bring them down.3Though they hide on the summit of Carmel, I will 3search them out and take them from there; And though they 4conceal themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea, From there I will command the 5serpent and it will bite them.4And though they go into 6captivity before their enemies, From there I will command the sword that it slay them, And I will 7set My eyes against them for evil and not for good.”

5The Lord 8God of hosts, The One who 9touches the land so that it melts, And 10all those who dwell in it mourn, And all of it rises up like the Nile And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;6The One who builds His 11 12upper chambers in the heavens And has founded His vaulted dome over the earth, He who 13calls for the waters of the sea And 14pours them out on the face of the earth, 15The Lord is His name.

7“Are you not as the sons of 16Ethiopia to Me, O sons of Israel?” declares the Lord. “Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt, And the 17Philistines from Caphtor and the 18Arameans from 19Kir?8Behold, the 20eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom, And I will 21destroy it from the face of the earth; Nevertheless, I will 22not totally destroy the house of Jacob,” Declares the Lord.9“For behold, I am commanding, And I will 23shake the house of Israel among all nations As grain is shaken in a sieve, But not a 24kernel will fall to the ground.10All the 25sinners of My people will die by the sword, Those who say, ‘26The calamity will not overtake or confront us.’

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Notes

1. Amos 9:2 Ps 139:8 ↩
2. Amos 9:2 Jer 51:53; Obad 4 ↩
3. Amos 9:3 Jer 16:16 ↩
4. Amos 9:3 Job 34:22; Ps 139:9, 10 ↩
5. Amos 9:3 Is 27:1 ↩
6. Amos 9:4 Lev 26:33 ↩
7. Amos 9:4 Lev 17:10; Jer 21:10; 39:16; 44:11 ↩
8. Amos 9:5 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch ↩
9. Amos 9:5 Ps 104:32; 144:5; Is 64:1; Mic 1:4 ↩
10. Amos 9:5 Amos 8:8 ↩
11. Amos 9:6 Or stairs ↩
12. Amos 9:6 Ps 104:3, 13 ↩
13. Amos 9:6 Amos 5:8 ↩
14. Amos 9:6 Ps 104:6 ↩
15. Amos 9:6 Amos 4:13 ↩
16. Amos 9:7 2 Chr 14:9, 12; Is 20:4; 43:3 ↩
17. Amos 9:7 Deut 2:23; Jer 47:4 ↩
18. Amos 9:7 Amos 1:5 ↩
19. Amos 9:7 2 Kin 16:9; Is 22:6 ↩
20. Amos 9:8 Jer 44:27; Amos 9:4 ↩
21. Amos 9:8 Amos 7:17; 9:10 ↩
22. Amos 9:8 Jer 5:10; 30:11; 31:35, 36; Joel 2:32; Amos 3:12; Obad 17 ↩
23. Amos 9:9 Is 30:28; Luke 22:31 ↩
24. Amos 9:9 Or pebble ↩
25. Amos 9:10 Is 33:14; Zech 13:8 ↩
26. Amos 9:10 Amos 6:3 ↩

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