Amos 9:7-9

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

⁷ “Are you not like the Ethiopians to me,
    O people of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
    and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Syrians from Kir?
⁸ Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
    and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground;
    except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
                says the Lord.

⁹ “For lo, I will command,
    and shake the house of Israel among all the nations
as one shakes with a sieve,
    but no pebble shall fall upon the earth.