Amos 9:3-5

Contemporary English Version

³ If they escape to the peaks
of Mount Carmel,
    I'll search and find them.
And if they hide from me
    at the bottom of the ocean,
I'll command a sea monster
    to bite them.
⁴ I'll send a sword to kill them,
wherever their enemies
    drag them off as captives.
I'm determined to hurt them,
    not to help them.”

⁵ When the Lord God All-Powerful
touches the earth, it melts,
    and its people mourn.
God makes the earth rise
and then fall,
    just like the Nile River.