Who is this that (A)rises like the Nile,
Like the rivers whose waters surge about?
Egypt rises like the Nile,
Even like the rivers whose waters surge about;
And He has said, “I will (B)rise and cover that land;
I will surely (C)destroy the city and its inhabitants.”

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The Lord [a]God of hosts,
The One who (A)touches the land so that it melts,
And (B)all those who dwell in it mourn,
And all of it rises up like the Nile
And subsides like the Nile of Egypt;

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 9:5 Heb YHWH, usually rendered Lord, and so throughout the ch