CINXE.COM

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1" /><title>Amos 9 ESV</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/amos/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/amos/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">ESV</a> > Amos 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../amos/8.htm" title="Amos 8">◄</a> Amos 9 <a href="../obadiah/1.htm" title="Obadiah 1">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/amos/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">The Destruction of Israel</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>I saw the Lord standing beside<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Or on">a</a></sup></span> the altar, and he said:</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="ln-group">“Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake,</span><br /><span class="indent">and shatter them on the heads of all the people;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew all of them">b</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="ln-group">and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;</span><br /><span class="indent">not one of them shall flee away;</span><br /><span class="indent">not one of them shall escape.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“If they dig into Sheol,</span><br /><span class="indent">from there shall my hand take them;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">if they climb up to heaven,</span><br /><span class="indent">from there I will bring them down.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,</span><br /><span class="indent">from there I will search them out and take them;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,</span><br /><span class="indent">there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">And if they go into captivity before their enemies,</span><br /><span class="indent">there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and I will fix my eyes upon them</span><br /><span class="indent">for evil and not for good.”</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">The Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> of hosts,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">he who touches the earth and it melts,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all who dwell in it mourn,</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and all of it rises like the Nile,</span><br /><span class="indent">and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">who builds his upper chambers in the heavens</span><br /><span class="indent">and founds his vault upon the earth;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">who calls for the waters of the sea</span><br /><span class="indent">and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> is his name.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Are you not like the Cushites to me,</span><br /><span class="indent">O people of Israel?” declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span><br /><span class="ln-group">“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,</span><br /><span class="indent">and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">Behold, the eyes of the Lord <span class="divine-name">God</span> are upon the sinful kingdom,</span><br /><span class="indent">and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,</span><br /><span class="indent">except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“For behold, I will command,</span><br /><span class="indent">and shake the house of Israel among all the nations</span><br /><span class="ln-group">as one shakes with a sieve,</span><br /><span class="indent">but no pebble shall fall to the earth.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,</span><br /><span class="indent">who say, ‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’</span></p> <p class="heading">The Restoration of Israel</p><span class="block-indent"><p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“In that day I will raise up</span><br /><span class="indent">the booth of David that is fallen</span><br /><span class="ln-group">and repair its breaches,</span><br /><span class="indent">and raise up its ruins</span><br /><span class="indent">and rebuild it as in the days of old,</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">that they may possess the remnant of Edom</span><br /><span class="indent">and all the nations who are called by my name,”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Hebrew; Septuagint (compare Acts 15:17) that the remnant of mankind and all the nations who are called by my name may seek the Lord">c</a></sup></span></span><br /><span class="indent">declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> who does this.</span></p> <p class="line-group"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">“Behold, the days are coming,” declares the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span>,</span><br /><span class="indent">“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper</span><br /><span class="indent">and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">the mountains shall drip sweet wine,</span><br /><span class="indent">and all the hills shall flow with it.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;</span><br /><span class="ln-group">they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.</span><br /> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/amos/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span><span class="ln-group">I will plant them on their land,</span><br /><span class="indent">and they shall never again be uprooted</span><br /><span class="indent">out of the land that I have given them,”</span><br /><begin-line class="declares"/>says the <span class="divine-name">Lord</span> your God.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Or <i>on</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">1</span> Hebrew <i><span class="catch-word">all</span> of them</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">12</span> Hebrew; Septuagint (compare Acts 15:17) <i><span class="catch-word">that</span> the remnant of mankind and all the nations who are called by my name may seek the Lord</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. The ESV® text has been reproduced in cooperation with and by permission of Good News Publishers. Unauthorized reproduction of this publication is prohibited. All rights reserved.<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) is adapted from the Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U.S.A. All rights reserved.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/">Bible Hub</a></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../amos/8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="Amos 8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="Amos 8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../obadiah/1.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="Obadiah 1"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="Obadiah 1" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="rightbox"><div class="padright"><div id="pic"><iframe width="100%" height="860" scrolling="no" src="//biblescan.com/mpc/amos/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></div></div><div id="rightbox4"><div class="padright2"><div id="spons1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tr><td class="sp1"><iframe width="122" height="860" scrolling="no" src="../sidemenu.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchap.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>