Amos 9:5-7

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Punishment Will Destroy the People

⁵The Lord God All-Powerful will touch the land,
    and the land will melt.
    Then all the people who live in the land will cry for the dead.
The land will rise and fall
    like the Nile River in Egypt.
⁶He built his upper rooms above the skies.
    He put his skies^[a] over the earth.
He calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out as rain on the land.
    Yahweh is his name.

The Lord Promises Destruction for Israel

⁷This is what the Lord says:

“Israel, you are like the Ethiopians to me.
    I brought Israel out of the land of Egypt,
    the Philistines from Caphtor,^[b]
    and the Arameans from Kir.^[c]”

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Footnotes

Amos 9:6 skies Literally, “dome” or “vault.”
Amos 9:7 Caphtor An island west of Israel, probably Crete or Cyprus.
Amos 9:7 Kir Where the Arameans came from and where the Assyrians sent them in exile. There are several places with this name.