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          DASV: Amos 9

1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar. He said,
     "Strike the tops of the pillars,
           so that the thresholds shake;
      shatter them on the heads of all the people.
      Those left I will kill with the sword,
          not one of them will get away,
           not one of them will escape.
2 Though they dig down into Sheol,
     my hand will pull them up out of there;
      though they climb up to heaven,
     from there will I bring them down.
3 Though they hide themselves on the top of Mount Carmel,
      I will search and capture them from there;
      though they attempt to hide from my sight in the bottom of the sea,
I will command the serpent and it will bite them.
4 Though they go into exile before their enemies,
     there I will command the sword,
     and it will kill them;
      I will fix my eyes on them for disaster
     and not for good."

5 The sovereign LORD of hosts,
     he who touches the earth and it melts,
           and all who dwell in it will mourn;
           all the land rises up like the Nile River,
      and then it sinks again, like the River of Egypt.
6 He builds his upper chambers in the heavens,
     and has founded its foundation on the earth;
      he calls for the waters of the sea,
     and pours them out on the surface of the earth;
     the LORD is his name.
7 "Are you not just like the Ethiopians to me, O Israelites?"
     says the LORD.
      "Have I not brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt,
     and the Philistines from Crete,
     and the Arameans from Kir?
8 Look, the eyes of the sovereign LORD are on the sinful kingdom,
     I will destroy it from the face of the earth;
      except I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob,"
               says the LORD.
9 "For look, I will command,
     and I will shake a sieve with the house of Israel among all the nations,
     yet not the smallest kernel will fall to the ground.
10 All the sinners of my people will die by the sword,
     those who say, 'Disaster will never overtake or happen to us.'

11 In that day I will raise up the fallen hut of David,
     and close up its breaches;
           I will raise up its ruins,
          and I will rebuild it as in days of old.
12 Then they will possess what is left of Edom,
     and all the nations who are called by my name,"
     says the LORD who will do this.
13 "Look, the days are coming," says the LORD,
     "that the one who plows will catch up with the one reaping,
     and the one who treads grapes,
     with the one who sows seed.
           The mountains will drip sweet wine,
          and it will flow down all the hills.
14 I will bring back my exiled people Israel,
     and they will rebuild the ruined cities,
          and inhabit them;
           they will plant vineyards,
          and drink their wine;
           they will also plant gardens,
          and eat their fruit.
15 Then I will plant them on their land,
     and they will no more be plucked up out of their land
     which I have given them,"
           says the LORD your God.
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