Amos 9:1-5

English Standard Version

The Destruction of Israel

9 I saw the Lord standing beside^[a] the altar, and he said:

^(A)“Strike the capitals until ^(B)the thresholds ^(C)shake,
    ^(D)and shatter them on the heads of all the people;^[b]
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
    ^(E)not one of them shall flee away;
    not one of them shall escape.

²^(F)“If they dig into Sheol,
    from there shall my hand take them;
^(G)if they climb up to heaven,
    from there I will bring them down.
³If they hide themselves on ^(H)the top of Carmel,
    from there I will search them out and take them;
^(I)and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
    there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
⁴^(J)And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
    there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
^(K)and I will fix my eyes upon them
    for evil and not for good.”

⁵The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and ^(L)it melts,
and all who dwell in it mourn,
^(M)and all of it rises like the Nile,
^(N)and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;