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Amos 9:7-9
Evangelical Heritage Version
Amos 9:7-9
Evangelical Heritage Version
The Final Judgment
7 Are you not like Cushites[a] to me, you children of Israel?
declares the Lord.
Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt
and the Philistines from Caphtor[b]
and the Arameans from Kir?[c]
8 Look, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from the face of the earth.
But I will never completely destroy the house of Jacob,
declares the Lord.
9 Listen! I am giving a command,
and among all the nations I will shake the house of Israel
as the contents of a sieve are shaken,
and not even one pebble[d] will fall out to the ground.[e]
Footnotes
- Amos 9:7 Cushites are black Africans from south of Egypt, from the territory that today is Sudan.
- Amos 9:7 That is, Crete or some other location in the Mediterranean
- Amos 9:7 The location of Kir is unknown. It is probably far to the north.
- Amos 9:9 Or kernel of grain
- Amos 9:9 The people of Israel are being sorted through a sieve. It is not clear whether those kept in the sieve are the pebbles that cannot escape judgment or the grains that are being separated from the chaff, which will be burned. The judgment is the same in either case.
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