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Amos 9

The fifth and final vision is the bleakest: the LORD stands by the altar and orders it struck so the temple collapses on the worshippers' heads. No hiding place works — not Sheol, not heaven, not Carmel's heights, not the sea floor where a serpent waits. God who shaped Israel's exodus also brought Philistines and Syrians from afar, so Israel claims no special immunity. Read to the turn, where unrelenting judgment becomes a promise of restoration.

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Amos 9 (WEB)

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I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and he said, “Strike the tops of the pillars, that the thresholds may shake. Break them in pieces on the head of all of them. I will kill the last of them with the sword. Not one of them will flee away. Not one of them will escape.
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Though they dig into Sheol, there my hand will take them; and though they climb up to heaven, there I will bring them down.
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Though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out from there; and though they be hidden from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it will bite them.
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Though they go into captivity before their enemies, there I will command the sword, and it will kill them. I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good.
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For the Lord, the GOD of Armies, is he who touches the land and it melts, and all who dwell in it will mourn; and it will rise up wholly like the River, and will sink again, like the River of Egypt.
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It is he who builds his rooms in the heavens, and has founded his vault on the earth; he who calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the surface of the earth—the LORD is his name.
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Are you not like the children of the Ethiopians to me, children of Israel?” says the LORD. “Haven’t I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
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Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the surface of the earth, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” says the LORD.
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“For behold, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all the nations as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet not the least kernel will fall on the earth.
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All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, who say, ‘Evil won’t overtake nor meet us.’
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In that day I will raise up the tent of David who is fallen and close up its breaches, and I will raise up its ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old,
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that they may possess the remnant of Edom and all the nations who are called by my name,” says the LORD who does this.
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“Behold, the days come,” says the LORD, “that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the one treading grapes him who sows seed; and sweet wine will drip from the mountains, and flow from the hills.
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I will bring my people Israel back from captivity, and they will rebuild the ruined cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink wine from them. They shall also make gardens, and eat their fruit.
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I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be plucked up out of their land which I have given them,” says the LORD your God.

Amós 9 (WPB)

1
Eu vi o Senhor em pé junto ao altar, e ele disse: “Bata nos capitéis das colunas, para que os umbrais tremam. Quebre-os em pedaços sobre a cabeça de todos eles. Eu matarei o último deles à espada. Nenhum deles fugirá. Nenhum deles escapará.
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Ainda que cavem até o Seol, de lá a minha mão os tirará; e ainda que subam ao céu, de lá os farei descer.
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Ainda que se escondam no cume do Carmelo, eu os procurarei e os tirarei de lá; e ainda que se ocultem da minha vista no fundo do mar, lá darei ordem à serpente, e ela os morderá.
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Ainda que vão para o cativeiro diante de seus inimigos, lá darei ordem à espada, e ela os matará. Fixarei os meus olhos neles para o mal, e não para o bem.
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Pois o Senhor, o DEUS dos Exércitos, é aquele que toca a terra e ela se derrete, e todos os que nela habitam prantearão; e toda ela se levantará como o Rio, e baixará novamente, como o Rio do Egito.
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É ele quem constrói as suas câmaras nos céus, e fundou a sua abóbada na terra; ele quem chama pelas águas do mar, e as derrama sobre a superfície da terra — o SENHOR é o seu nome.
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“Acaso vocês não são para mim como os filhos dos etíopes, ó filhos de Israel?” diz o SENHOR. “Não fiz eu Israel subir da terra do Egito, e os filisteus de Caftor, e os sírios de Quir?
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Eis que os olhos do Senhor DEUS estão sobre o reino pecador, e eu o destruirei da superfície da terra, exceto que não destruirei totalmente a casa de Jacó”, diz o SENHOR.
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“Pois eis que darei ordem, e peneirarei a casa de Israel entre todas as nações, assim como o grão é peneirado em uma peneira, contudo nem o menor grão cairá na terra.
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Todos os pecadores do meu povo morrerão à espada, os quais dizem: ‘O mal não nos alcançará nem virá ao nosso encontro.’
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Naquele dia eu levantarei a tenda de Davi, que está caída, e fecharei as suas brechas, e levantarei as suas ruínas, e a edificarei como nos dias da antiguidade,
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para que possuam o remanescente de Edom e todas as nações que são chamadas pelo meu nome”, diz o SENHOR, que faz isso.
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“Eis que vêm os dias”, diz o SENHOR, “em que o lavrador alcançará o ceifeiro, e o que pisa as uvas, àquele que lança a semente; e vinho doce gotejará dos montes, e fluirá das colinas.
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Trarei o meu povo Israel de volta do cativeiro, e eles reconstruirão as cidades em ruínas, e as habitarão; e plantarão vinhas, e beberão do seu vinho. Também farão jardins, e comerão do seu fruto.
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Eu os plantarei na sua terra, e eles não serão mais arrancados da sua terra que lhes dei,” diz o SENHOR, o seu Deus.

The sieve and the rebuilt tent

Verses 8-9 hold the book's central mercy: God will destroy the "sinful kingdom" yet not utterly destroy Jacob, sifting Israel among the nations "yet not the least kernel will fall." The closing reversal raises up the fallen "tent of David," with the plowman overtaking the reaper and mountains dripping sweet wine — a replanting so secure they will "no more be plucked up out of their land."

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