Amos 9
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I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said:
e "Strike the capitals until e the thresholds f shake,
g and shatter them on the heads of all the people;
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
h not one of them shall flee away;
not one of them shall escape.
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i "If they dig into Sheol,
from there shall my hand take them;
i if they climb up to heaven,
from there I will bring them down.
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If they hide themselves on j the top of Carmel,
from there I will search them out and take them;
k and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
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l And if they go into captivity before their enemies,
there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
m and I will fix my eyes upon them
for evil and not for good."
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The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and n it melts,
and all who dwell in it mourn,
o and all of it rises like the Nile,
o and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
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p who builds his upper chambers in the heavens
and founds his vault upon the earth;
q who calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth -
r the Lord is his name.
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"Are you not like s the Cushites to me,
O people of Israel?" declares the Lord.
t "Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
and u the Philistines from v Caphtor and the Syrians from w Kir?
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Behold, x the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
y except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,"
declares the Lord.
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"For behold, I will command,
z and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
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All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
who say, a 'Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.'
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"In that day b 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,
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c that they may possess the remnant of Edom
and d all the nations who are called by my name,"
declares the Lord who does this.
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"Behold, the days are coming," declares the Lord,
e "when the plowman shall overtake the reaper
and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;
f the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
and all the hills shall flow with it.
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g I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
and h they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
i they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
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j I will plant them on their land,
k and they shall never again be uprooted
out of the land l that I have given them,"
says the Lord your God.
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Cross References
Zephaniah 2:14
Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
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Zephaniah 2:14
Herds shall lie down in her midst, all kinds of beasts; even the owl and the hedgehog shall lodge in her capitals; a voice shall hoot in the window; devastation will be on the threshold; for her cedar work will be laid bare.
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Isaiah 6:4
And the foundations of the thresholds shook at the voice of him who called, and the house was filled with smoke.
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Judges 16:26 - 30
And Samson said to the young man who held him by the hand, "Let me feel the pillars on which the house rests, that I may lean against them.
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Amos 2:14
Flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not retain his strength, nor shall the mighty save his life.
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Psalms 139:8 - 10
If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
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Psalms 139:8 - 10
If I ascend to heaven, you are there! If I make my bed in Sheol, you are there!
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Amos 1:2
And he said: "The Lord roars from Zion and utters his voice from Jerusalem; the pastures of the shepherds mourn, and the top of Carmel withers.
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Job 26:5
The dead tremble under the waters and their inhabitants.
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Deuteronomy 28:65
And among these nations you shall find no respite, and there shall be no resting place for the sole of your foot, but the Lord will give you there a trembling heart and failing eyes and a languishing soul.
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Jeremiah 21:10
For I have set my face against this city for harm and not for good, declares the Lord : it shall be given into the hand of the king of Babylon, and he shall burn it with fire.
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Psalms 46:6
The nations rage, the kingdoms totter; he utters his voice, the earth melts.
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Amos 8:8
Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?
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Amos 8:8
Shall not the land tremble on this account, and everyone mourn who dwells in it, and all of it rise like the Nile, and be tossed about and sink again, like the Nile of Egypt?
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Psalms 104:3
He lays the beams of his chambers on the waters; he makes the clouds his chariot; he rides on the wings of the wind.
Psalms 104:5
He set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be moved.
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Amos 5:8
He who made the Pleiades and Orion, and turns deep darkness into the morning and darkens the day into night, who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the surface of the earth, the Lord is his name.
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Amos 4:13
For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads on the heights of the earth - the Lord, the God of hosts, is his name!
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Zephaniah 3:10
From beyond the rivers of Cush my worshipers, the daughter of my dispersed ones, shall bring my offering.
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Exodus 20:2
I am the Lord your God, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of slavery.
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Jeremiah 47:4
Because of the day that is coming to destroy all the Philistines, to cut off from Tyre and Sidon every helper that remains. For the Lord is destroying the Philistines, the remnant of the coastland of Caphtor.
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Genesis 10:14
Pathrusim, Casluhim (from whom the Philistines came), and Caphtorim.
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Amos 1:5
I will break the gate-bar of Damascus, and cut off the inhabitants from the Valley of Aven, and him who holds the scepter from Beth-eden; and the people of Syria shall go into exile to Kir," says the Lord.
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Amos 9:4
And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.
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Jeremiah 30:11
For I am with you to save you, declares the Lord ; I will make a full end of all the nations among whom I scattered you, but of you I will not make a full end. I will discipline you in just measure, and I will by no means leave you unpunished.
Obadiah 1:17
But in Mount Zion there shall be those who escape, and it shall be holy, and the house of Jacob shall possess their own possessions.
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Jeremiah 15:7
I have winnowed them with a winnowing fork in the gates of the land; I have bereaved them; I have destroyed my people; they did not turn from their ways.
Matthew 3:12
His winnowing fork is in his hand, and he will clear his threshing floor and gather his wheat into the barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
Luke 3:17
His winnowing fork is in his hand, to clear his threshing floor and to gather the wheat into his barn, but the chaff he will burn with unquenchable fire.
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Amos 6:3
O you who put far away the day of disaster and bring near the seat of violence?
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Acts 15:16
'After this I will return, and I will rebuild the tent of David that has fallen; I will rebuild its ruins, and I will restore it.
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Obadiah 1:19
Those of the Negeb shall possess Mount Esau, and those of the Shephelah shall possess the land of the Philistines; they shall possess the land of Ephraim and the land of Samaria, and Benjamin shall possess Gilead.
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Acts 15:17 - 18
That the remnant of mankind may seek the Lord, and all the Gentiles who are called by my name, says the Lord, who makes these things
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Leviticus 26:5
Your threshing shall last to the time of the grape harvest, and the grape harvest shall last to the time for sowing. And you shall eat your bread to the full and dwell in your land securely.
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Joel 3:18
And in that day the mountains shall drip sweet wine, and the hills shall flow with milk, and all the streambeds of Judah shall flow with water; and a fountain shall come forth from the house of the Lord and water the Valley of Shittim.
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Jeremiah 30:3
For behold, days are coming, declares the Lord, when I will restore the fortunes of my people, Israel and Judah, says the Lord, and I will bring them back to the land that I gave to their fathers, and they shall take possession of it.
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Isaiah 61:4
They shall build up the ancient ruins; they shall raise up the former devastations; they shall repair the ruined cities, the devastations of many generations.
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Jeremiah 31:5
Again you shall plant vineyards on the mountains of Samaria; the planters shall plant and shall enjoy the fruit.
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Jeremiah 24:6
I will set my eyes on them for good, and I will bring them back to this land. I will build them up, and not tear them down; I will plant them, and not uproot them.
Ezekiel 34:29
And I will provide for them renowned plantations so that they shall no more be consumed with hunger in the land, and no longer suffer the reproach of the nations.
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Joel 3:20
But Judah shall be inhabited forever, and Jerusalem to all generations.
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Jeremiah 3:18
In those days the house of Judah shall join the house of Israel, and together they shall come from the land of the north to the land that I gave your fathers for a heritage.
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