Amos 9:7-9

International Standard Version

⁷ “Aren’t you people of Israel like the people of Cush to me?”
    declares the Lord.
“I brought Israel up from the land of Egypt, did I not,
    as well as the Philistines from Caphtor^[a]
        and the Arameans from Kir?
⁸ Look! The eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom.
    I will destroy it from the face of the earth;
but I will not totally destroy the house of Jacob,”
    declares the Lord.
⁹ “Look! I’m giving the order:
    I will sift the house of Israel throughout all the nations,
        as one sifts with a sieve,
    yet not a single kernel will reach the ground!