the Week of Proper 28 / Ordinary 33
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Amos 9
1 I saw the Lord standing beside the altar: and he said, Smite the capitals, that the thresholds may shake; and break them to pieces on the head of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: there shall not one of them flee away, and there shall not one of them escape.2 Though they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.3 And though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they are hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.4 And though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there I will command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.5 For the Lord, Yahweh of hosts, [is] he that touches the land and it melts, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink again, like the River of Egypt;6 [it is] he that builds his staircase in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth; Yahweh is his name.7 Are you not as the sons of the Ethiopians to me, O sons of Israel? says Yahweh. Haven't I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?8 Look, the eyes of the Lord Yahweh are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; save that I will not completely destroy the house of Jacob, says Yahweh.9 For, look, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations, like [grain] is sifted in a sieve, yet the least kernel shall not fall on the earth.10 All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, The evil shall not overtake nor meet us.
11 In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David that has fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old;12 that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all the nations that are called by my name, says Yahweh that does this.13 Look, the days come, says Yahweh, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.14 And I will bring back the captivity of my people 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.15 And I will plant them on their land, and they shall no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them, says Yahweh your God.
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