Amos 9 (NET)

Amos 9:1¹I saw the Lord standing by the altar and he said, “Strike the tops of the support pillars, so the thresholds shake! Knock them down on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the survivors with the sword. No one will be able to run away; no one will be able to escape.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Ps 68:21Amos 3:14Hab 3:13Isa 6:1Isa 6:3-4John 1:18Rev 1:172 Chr 18:18Amos 2:14-15Ezek 1:28

Amos 9:2²Even if they could dig down into the netherworld, my hand would pull them up from there. Even if they could climb up to heaven, I would drag them down from there.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 51:53Ps 139:7-10Obad 1:4Ezek 28:13-16Isa 14:13-16Isa 2:19Jer 49:16Job 20:6Job 26:6Luke 10:18

Amos 9:3³Even if they were to hide on the top of Mount Carmel, I would hunt them down and take them from there. Even if they tried to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, from there I would command the Sea Serpent to bite them.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 16:16Isa 27:1Jer 23:23-24Job 34:22Amos 1:2Ps 139:9-11

Amos 9:4⁴Even when their enemies drive them into captivity, from there I will command the sword to kill them. I will not let them out of my sight; they will experience disaster, not prosperity.”Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Lev 26:33Jer 21:10Jer 44:11Deut 28:63-65Ezek 5:12Jer 39:16Lev 17:102 Chr 16:9Ezek 5:2Jer 24:6

Amos 9:5⁵The Sovereign Lord of Heaven’s Armies will do this. He touches the earth and it dissolves; all who live on it mourn. The whole earth rises like the Nile River, and then grows calm like the Nile in Egypt.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 8:8Ps 46:6Isa 64:1Mic 1:3-4Rev 20:11Hab 3:10Hos 4:3Jer 12:4Matt 7:27Nah 1:6

Amos 9:6⁶He builds the upper rooms of his palace in heaven and sets its foundation supports on the earth. He summons the water of the sea and pours it out on the earth’s surface. The Lord is his name.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 5:8Ps 104:3Amos 4:13Ps 104:13Jer 5:22Exod 3:14-15Gen 2:1Gen 7:11-19Ps 104:5-6

Amos 9:7⁷“You Israelites are just like the Ethiopians in my sight,” says the Lord. “Certainly I brought Israel up from the land of Egypt, but I also brought the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 47:42 Kgs 16:9Deut 2:23Amos 1:5Amos 2:10Jer 9:25-26Hos 12:13Isa 20:4Isa 22:6Jer 13:23

Amos 9:8⁸Look, the Sovereign Lord is watching the sinful nation, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. But I will not completely destroy the family of Jacob,” says the Lord.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 30:11Amos 9:4Jer 44:27Jer 5:101 Kgs 13:34Deut 4:31Deut 6:15Gen 6:7Gen 7:4Hos 1:6

Amos 9:9⁹“For look, I am giving a command and I will shake the family of Israel together with all the nations. It will resemble a sieve being shaken, when not even a pebble falls to the ground.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 22:31Deut 28:64Isa 30:28Lev 26:33

Amos 9:10¹⁰All the sinners among my people will die by the sword— the ones who say, ‘Disaster will not come near, it will not confront us.’Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Amos 6:3Isa 33:14Matt 13:49-50Amos 6:1Eccl 8:11Ezek 34:16-17Isa 28:14-15Isa 5:19Isa 56:12Jer 18:18

Amos 9:11¹¹“In that day I will rebuild the collapsing hut of David. I will seal its gaps, repair its ruins, and restore it to what it was like in days gone by.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 15:15-17Jer 33:14-16Isa 16:5Jer 23:5-6Ps 80:12Ezek 17:24Isa 63:11Jer 46:26Ezek 34:23-24Ezek 36:11

Amos 9:12¹²As a result they will conquer those left in Edom and all the nations subject to my rule.” The Lord, who is about to do this, is speaking.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 43:7Acts 15:17Isa 65:1Dan 9:18-19Isa 63:19Jer 14:9Isa 14:1-2Num 24:17-18Gen 27:29Gen 27:37

Amos 9:13¹³“Be sure of this, the time is coming,” says the Lord, “when the plowman will catch up to the reaper, and the one who stomps the grapes will overtake the planter. Juice will run down the slopes; it will flow down all the hillsides.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Joel 3:18John 4:35Isa 55:13Lev 26:5Isa 35:1-2Ezek 36:35Hos 2:21-23Joel 3:20Judg 5:5Ps 97:5

Amos 9:14¹⁴I will bring back my people, Israel; they will rebuild the cities lying in rubble and settle down. They will plant vineyards and drink the wine they produce; they will grow orchards and eat the fruit they produce.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 61:4Jer 30:3Jer 30:18Ezek 28:26Jer 31:28Isa 65:21Ps 53:6Ezek 37:25-28Ezek 16:53Ezek 36:33-36

Amos 9:15¹⁵I will plant them on their land, and they will never again be uprooted from the land I have given them,” says the Lord your God.Copy LinkCopy VerseKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Jer 24:6Ezek 37:25Isa 60:21Ezek 34:28Joel 3:20Jer 32:41Mic 4:4