AM-9:1  I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said,

Smite the lintel

of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head,

all of them;

and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth

of them shall

not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be

delivered.

AM-9:2  Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take

them; though

they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:

AM-9:3  And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I

will search

and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight

in the bottom

of the sea, thence will I command the serpent, and he shall bite

them:

AM-9:4  And though they go into captivity before their enemies,

thence will I

command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine

eyes upon them

for evil, and not for good.

AM-9:5  And the Lord GOD of hosts [is] he that toucheth the land,

 and it shall

melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise

up wholly like

a flood; and shall be drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt.

AM-9:6  [It is] he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and

hath founded

his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the

sea, and poureth

them out upon the face of the earth: The LORD [is] his name.

AM-9:7  [Are] ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O

children of

Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the

land of Egypt?

and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?

AM-9:8  Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD [are] upon the sinful

kingdom, and I

will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I

will not utterly

destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.

AM-9:9  For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of

Israel among all

nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the

least grain

fall upon the earth.

AM-9:10  All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,

which say, The

evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.

AM-9:11  In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David

that is fallen,

and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins,

 and I will

build it as in the days of old:

AM-9:12  That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all

the heathen,

which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.

AM-9:13  Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman

shall

overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth

seed; and the

mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.

AM-9:14  And I will bring again the captivity of my people of

Israel, and they

shall build the waste cities, and inhabit [them]; and they shall

plant

vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make

gardens, and eat

the fruit of them.

AM-9:15  And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall

no more be

pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the

LORD thy God.

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