4. If they are captured and taken away by their enemies,I will command the sword to kill them.I will keep watch over them,but I will keep watch to give them trouble, not to do them good.”
5. The Lord God All-Powerful touches the land,and the land shakes.Then everyone who lives in the land cries for the dead.The whole land rises like the Nile Riverand falls like the river of Egypt.
6. The Lord builds his upper rooms above the skies;he sets their foundations on the earth.He calls for the waters of the seaand pours them out on the land.The Lord is his name.
7. The Lord says,“Israel, you are no different to me than the people of Cush.I brought Israel out of the land of Egypt,and the Philistines from Crete,and the Arameans from Kir.
8. I, the Lord God, am watching the sinful kingdom Israel.I will destroy itfrom off the earth,but I will not completely destroyJacob’s descendants,” says the Lord.
9. “I am giving the commandto scatter the nation of Israel among all nations.It will be like someone shaking grain through a strainer,but not even a tiny stone falls through.
10. All the sinners among my peoplewill die by the sword—those who say,‘Nothing bad will happen to us.’
11. “The kingdom of David is like a fallen tent,but in that day I will set it up againand mend its broken places.I will rebuild its ruinsas it was before.
12. Then Israel will take over what is left of Edomand the other nations that belong to me,”says the Lord,who will make it happen.