1 The Destruction of Israel I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and He said: “Strike the doorposts, that the thresholds may shake, And Ps. 68:21; Hab. 3:13 break them on the heads of them all. I will slay the last of them with the sword. Amos 2:14 He who flees from them shall not get away, And he who escapes from them shall not be delivered.
2 “Though Ps. 139:8; Jer. 23:24 they dig into hell, From there My hand shall take them; Job 20:6; Jer. 51:53; Obad. 4; Matt. 11:23 Though they climb up to heaven, From there I will bring them down;
3 And though they Jer. 23:24 hide themselves on top of Carmel, From there I will search and take them; Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea, From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies, From there Lev. 26:33 I will command the sword, And it shall slay them. Lev. 17:10; Jer. 21:10; 39:16; 44:11 I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”
5 The Lord God of hosts, He who touches the earth and it Ps. 104:32; 144:5; Is. 64:1; Mic. 1:4 melts, Amos 8:8 And all who dwell there mourn; All of it shall swell like the River, And subside like the River of Egypt.
6 He who builds His Ps. 104:3, 13 layers in the sky, And has founded His strata in the earth; Who Amos 5:8 calls for the waters of the sea, And pours them out on the face of the earth— Amos 4:13; 5:27 The Lord is His name.
7 “ Are you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me, O children of Israel?” says the Lord . “Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt, The Jer. 47:4 Philistines from Deut. 2:23 Caphtor, And the Syrians from Amos 1:5 Kir?
8 “Behold, Jer. 44:27; Amos 9:4 the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom, And I Jer. 5:10; 30:11; (Joel 2:32); Amos 3:12; (Obad. 16, 17) will destroy it from the face of the earth; Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,” Says the Lord .
9 “For surely I will command, And will sift the house of Israel among all nations, As grain is sifted in a sieve; (Is. 65:8–16) Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.
10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword, (Is. 28:15); Jer. 5:12; Amos 6:3 Who say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’
11 Israel Will Be Restored “On Acts 15:16–18 that day I will raise up The tabernacle of David, which has fallen down, And repair its damages; I will raise up its ruins, And rebuild it as in the days of old;
12 Obad. 19 That they may possess the remnant of Num. 24:18; Is. 11:14 Edom, And all the Gentiles who are called by My name,” Says the Lord who does this thing.
13 “Behold, Lev. 26:5 the days are coming,” says the Lord , “When the plowman shall overtake the reaper, And the treader of grapes him who sows seed; Joel 3:18 The mountains shall drip with sweet wine, And all the hills shall flow with it.
14 Ps. 53:6; Is. 60:4; Jer. 30:3, 18 I will bring back the captives of My people Israel; Is. 61:4 They shall build the waste cities and inhabit them; They shall plant vineyards and drink wine from them; They shall also make gardens and eat fruit from them.
15 I will plant them in their land, Is. 60:21; Ezek. 34:28; 37:25 And no longer shall they be pulled up From the land I have given them,” Says the Lord your God.