Amos 9:7-15

English Standard Version

⁷“Are you not like ^(A)the Cushites to me,
    O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
^(B)“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and ^(C)the Philistines from ^(D)Caphtor and the Syrians from ^(E)Kir?
⁸Behold, ^(F)the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
    and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
    ^(G)except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the Lord.

⁹“For behold, I will command,
    ^(H)and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
¹⁰All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
    who say, ^(I)‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

The Restoration of Israel

¹¹“In that day ^(J)I will raise up
    the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches,
    and raise up its ruins
    and rebuild it as in the days of old,
¹²^(K)that they may possess the remnant of Edom
    and ^(L)all the nations who are called by my name,”^[a]
    declares the Lord who does this.

¹³“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,
    ^(M)“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
    and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
^(N)the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
    and all the hills shall flow with it.
¹⁴^(O)I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
    and ^(P)they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
^(Q)they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
    and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
¹⁵^(R)I will plant them on their land,
    ^(S)and they shall never again be uprooted
    out of the land ^(T)that I have given them,”
says the Lord your God.