New American Standard Bible 2020

Amos 9:2-10

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

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

7“Are you not as the sons of 15Ethiopia to Me, You sons of Israel?” declares the Lord. “Have I not brought up Israel from the land of Egypt, And the 16Philistines from Caphtor and the 17Arameans from 18Kir?8Behold, the 19eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom, And I will 20eliminate it from the face of the earth; Nevertheless, I will 21not totally eliminate the house of Jacob,” Declares the Lord.9“For behold, I am commanding, And I will 22shake the house of Israel among all nations As grain is shaken in a sieve, But not a pebble will fall to the ground.10All the 23sinners of My people will die by the sword, Those who say, ‘24The catastrophe 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 Ps 104:3, 13 ↩
12. Amos 9:6 Amos 5:8 ↩
13. Amos 9:6 Ps 104:6 ↩
14. Amos 9:6 Amos 4:13 ↩
15. Amos 9:7 2 Chr 14:9, 12; Is 20:4; 43:3 ↩
16. Amos 9:7 Deut 2:23; Jer 47:4 ↩
17. Amos 9:7 Amos 1:5 ↩
18. Amos 9:7 2 Kin 16:9; Is 22:6 ↩
19. Amos 9:8 Jer 44:27; Amos 9:4 ↩
20. Amos 9:8 Amos 7:17; 9:10 ↩
21. Amos 9:8 Jer 5:10; 30:11; 31:35, 36; Joel 2:32; Amos 3:12; Obad 17 ↩
22. Amos 9:9 Is 30:28; Luke 22:31 ↩
23. Amos 9:10 Is 33:14; Zech 13:8 ↩
24. Amos 9:10 Amos 6:3 ↩

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