Amo 9:1-10 | ESV | STEP | I saw the Lord standing beside the altar , and he said : Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake , and shatter them on the heads of all the people; and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword ; not one of them shall flee away ; not one of them shall escape .

Amos 9:1-10

The Destruction of Israel

1 I saw the Lord standing beside ^{▼▼Or on} the altar, and he said:

^b“Strike the capitals until ^cthe thresholds ^dshake,
^eand shatter them on the heads of all the people; ^{▼▼Hebrew all of them}
and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;
^gnot one of them shall flee away;
not one of them shall escape.
2 ^h“If they dig into Sheol,
from there shall my hand take them;
ⁱif they climb up to heaven,
from there I will bring them down.
3 If they hide themselves on ^jthe top of Carmel,
from there I will search them out and take them;
^kand if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
4 ^lAnd if they go into captivity before their enemies,
there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;
^mand I will fix my eyes upon them
for evil and not for good.”
5 The Lord God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and ⁿit melts,
and all who dwell in it mourn,
^oand all of it rises like the Nile,
^pand sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
6 ^qwho builds his upper chambers in the heavens
and founds his vault upon the earth;
^rwho calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—
^sthe Lord is his name.
7 “Are you not like ^tthe Cushites to me,
O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.
^u“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
and ^vthe Philistines from ^wCaphtor and the Syrians from ^xKir?
8 Behold, ^ythe eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,
^zexcept that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”

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