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Amos 9 :: New King James Version (NKJV)

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CHAPTER 9
The Destruction of Israel
The LORD’s Judgments Inescapable
1 I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said:
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​​“Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake,
​​And break them on the heads of them all.
​​I will slay the last of them with the sword.
​​He who flees from them shall not get away,
​​And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.
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2 ​​“Though they dig into hell,[fn]
​​From there My hand shall take them;
​​Though they climb up to heaven,
​​From there I will bring them down;
3 ​​And though they hide themselves on top of Carmel,
​​From there I will search and take them;
​​Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,
​​From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
4 ​​Though they go into captivity before their enemies,
​​From there I will command the sword,
​​And it shall slay them.
​​I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”
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5 ​​The Lord GOD of hosts,
​​He who touches the earth and it melts,
​​And all who dwell there mourn;
​​All of it shall swell like the River,[fn]
​​And subside like the River of Egypt.
6 ​​He who builds His layers in the sky,
​​And has founded His strata in the earth;
​​Who calls for the waters of the sea,
​​And pours them out on the face of the earth—
​​The LORD is His name.
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7 ​​“Are you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me,
​​O children of Israel?” says the LORD.
​​“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
​​The Philistines from Caphtor,
​​And the Syrians from Kir?
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8 ​​“Behold, 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,”
​​Says the LORD.
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9 ​​“For surely I will command,
​​And will sift the house of Israel among all nations,
​​As grain is sifted in a sieve;
​​Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.
10 ​​All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
​​Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’
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Israel Will Be Restored
(cf. Acts 15:16, 17 )
11 ​​“On that day I will raise up
​​The tabernacle[fn] of David, which has fallen down,
​​And repair its damages;
​​I will raise up its ruins,
​​And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12 ​​That they may possess the remnant of Edom,[fn]
​​And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,”
​​Says the LORD who does this thing.
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13 ​​“Behold, the days are coming,” says the LORD,
​​“When the plowman shall overtake the reaper,
​​And the treader of grapes him who sows seed;
​​The mountains shall drip with sweet wine,
​​And all the hills shall flow with it.
14 ​​I will bring back the captives of My people Israel;
​​They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them;
​​They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them;
​​They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
15 ​​I will plant them in their land,
​​And no longer shall they be pulled up
​​From the land I have given them,”
​​Says the LORD your God.
See the NKJV Preface (Especially for Parenthesis, Brackets, & Asterisks).
NKJV Footnotes
Or Sheol
That is, the Nile
Literally booth, figure of a deposed dynasty
Septuagint reads mankind.
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