Amos 9:4-6

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⁴ If they are captured and taken away by their enemies,
    I will command the sword,
    and it will kill them there.
Yes, I will watch over them,
    but I will watch for ways to give them troubles,
    not for ways to do good things.”

⁵ The Lord God All-Powerful will touch the land,
    and the land will melt.
    Then all the people who live in the land will cry for the dead.
The land will rise and fall
    like the Nile River in Egypt.
⁶ He built his upper rooms above the skies.
    He put his skies^[a] over the earth.
He calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out as rain on the land.
    Yahweh is his name.