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The Destruction of Israel
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|Amós 9:1| I saw the Lord standing beside 1 the altar, and he said:a “Strike the capitals until b the thresholds c shake, d and shatter them on the heads of all the people; 2 and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword; e not one of them shall flee away; not one of them shall escape.
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|Amós 9:2|f “If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; g if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down.
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|Amós 9:3|If they hide themselves on h the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; i and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
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|Amós 9:4|j And if they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them; k and I will fix my eyes upon them for evil and not for good.”
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|Amós 9:5|The Lord GOD of hosts, he who touches the earth and l it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn, m and all of it rises like the Nile, n and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
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|Amós 9:6|o who builds his upper chambers in the heavens and founds his vault upon the earth; p who calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out upon the surface of the earth — q the LORD is his name.
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|Amós 9:7|“Are you not like r the Cushites to me, O people of Israel?” declares the LORD. s “Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, and t the Philistines from u Caphtor and the Syrians from v Kir?
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|Amós 9:8|Behold, w the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground, x except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” declares the LORD.
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|Amós 9:9|“For behold, I will command, y and shake the house of Israel among all the nations as one shakes with a sieve, but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
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|Amós 9:10|All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, who say, z ‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’
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