8. ‘Surely the eyes of the Sovereign Lordare on the sinful kingdom.I will destroy itfrom the face of the earth.Yet I will not totally destroythe descendants of Jacob,’declares the Lord.
9. ‘For I will give the command,and I will shake the people of Israelamong all the nationsas grain is shaken in a sieve,and not a pebble will reach the ground.
10. All the sinners among my peoplewill die by the sword,all those who say,“Disaster will not overtake or meet us.”
11. ‘In that day‘I will restore David’s fallen shelter –I will repair its broken wallsand restore its ruins –and will rebuild it as it used to be,
12. so that they may possess the remnant of Edomand all the nations that bear my name,’declares the Lord, who will do these things.
13. ‘The days are coming,’ declares the Lord,‘when the reaper will be overtaken by the ploughmanand the planter by the one treading grapes.New wine will drip from the mountainsand flow from all the hills,
14. and I will bring my people Israel back from exile.‘They will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them.They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
15. I will plant Israel in their own land,never again to be uprootedfrom the land I have given them,’says the Lord your God.Footnotes for the Book of Amosa 2 Or of her citiesb 4 Or by liesc 4 Or liesa 2 Or away in baskets, / the last of you in fish basketsb 3 Masoretic Text; with a different word division of the Hebrew (see Septuagint) out, you mountain of oppressionc 4 Or daysa 10 Or to make a funeral fire in honour of the deadb 12 With a different word division of the Hebrew; Masoretic Text plough therec 13 Lo Debar means nothing.d 13 Karnaim means horns; horn here symbolises strength.a 3 Or ‘the temple singers will wailb 14 Hebrew the way