7.
The plague of the fifth sign — the Lord standing upon the altar, signifying that the Lord is ready to destroy Israel
9:1-10
Amos 9
:1
9:1
I asaw the Lord
1standing upon the altar. And He said,
Strike the capitals
of the pillars That the thresholds may shake.
And break them off upon the heads of them all,
And the last of them I will slay with the sword:
Any one of them who flees will not flee away,
And any one of them who escapes will not slip by.
Amos 9
:2
9:2
aThough they dig into
1Sheol,
From there My hand will take them;
And though they go up into
bheaven,
From there I will bring them down.
Amos 9
:3
9:3
And though they hide at the top of Carmel,
From there I will seek
them and take them.
And though they hide themselves from My sight on the floor of the sea,
There I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
Amos 9
:4
9:4
And though they go into captivity before their enemies,
There I will command the sword, and it will slay them;
And I will set My eyes upon them
For evil and not for good.
Amos 9
:5
9:5
For the Lord Jehovah of hosts
Is the One who touches the land and it melts,
And all those who dwell in it mourn;
And all of it
arises like the
1River,
And it sinks like the river of Egypt.
Amos 9
:6
9:6
He is the One who builds His
aupper stories in the heavens
And has founded His vault over the earth;
He is the One who calls for the
bwater of the sea
And pours it upon the surface of the earth;
Jehovah is His name.
Amos 9
:7
9:7
Are you not like the children of the
1Cushites To Me, O children of Israel?
Declares Jehovah.
Have I not brought up Israel
Out from the land of Egypt,
And the Philistines out from
2Caphtor,
And
3Aram out from Kir?
Amos 9
:8
9:8
Yes, the eyes of the Lord Jehovah
Are on the sinful kingdom,
And I will destroy it
From off the face of the earth,
Except that I will
anot 1utterly destroy the house of Jacob,
Declares Jehovah.
Amos 9
:9
9:9
For I will command
And
ashake the house of Israel among all the nations,
As
grain is shaken in the sieve;
Yet a kernel will not fall to the ground.
Amos 9
:10
9:10
All the sinners of My people
Will die by the sword,
Those who say, Evil will not overtake us
Nor come before us on all sides.
V.
The restoration of the house of Israel, with the rebuilding of the fallen tabernacle of David for the kingdom of Christ
9:11-15
Amos 9
:11
9:11
aIn that day I will raise up
The fallen
1btabernacle of David,
And I will wall up its breaches
And raise up its ruins
And build it up as
it was in the days of old;
Amos 9
:12
9:12
That they may possess the
aremnant of Edom and all the nations which are called by My name, declares Jehovah who does this.
Amos 9
:13
9:13
Indeed days are coming,
Declares Jehovah,
When the plowman will overtake the reaper,
And the grape treader, him who sows the seed;
And the mountains will drip sweet
awine,
And all the hills will melt.
Amos 9
:14
9:14
And I will
aturn the captivity of My people Israel,
And they will build the
bdesolated cities and inhabit
them;
And they will plant vineyards and drink the wine from them,
And make gardens and eat the fruit from them.
Amos 9
:15
9:15
And I will
aplant them upon their land, and they will
bnot be plucked up again from their land, which I have given to them, says Jehovah your God.
