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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.
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[a] will fall out to the ground.[b]
10 By a sword, all the sinners among my people will die,
    those who are saying, “Disaster will not overtake us. It will not confront us.”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 9:9 Or kernel of grain
  2. 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.