(KJV) Amos 91

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⥃The Destruction of Israel

[1] I saw2 the Lord standing upon3 the altar: and he said, Smite4 the lintel5 of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them6 in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee7 away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered. [2] Though8 they dig9 into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb10 up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: [3] And though they hid11e12 themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, thence will I command the serpent13, and he shall bite them: [4] And though they go14 into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set15 mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good. [5] And the Lord God of hosts [is] he that toucheth16 the land, and it shall melt, and all17 that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise18 up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as [by] the flood of Egypt. [6] [It is] he that buildeth19 his stories20 in the heaven, and hath founded his troop21 in the earth; he that calleth22 for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord23 [is] his name. [7] [Are] ye not24 as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord. Have not25 I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines26 from Caphtor, and the Syrians27 from Kir? [8] Behold, the eyes28 of the Lord God [are] upon the sinful kingdom, and I29 will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving30 that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord. [9] For, lo, I will command, and I31 will sift32 the house of Israel among all nations, like as [corn] is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain33 fall upon the earth. [10] All the sinners34 of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil35 shall not overtake nor prevent us.

⥃A Promise of Restoration [ Acts 15:5–21 ]

[11] In that day36 will I raise37 up the tabernacle38 of David that is fallen, and close39 up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in40 the days of old: [12] That they may possess41 the remnant of Edom42, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name43, saith the Lord that doeth this. [13] Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman44 shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth45 seed; and the mountains46 shall drop sweet wine47, and all the hills48 shall melt. [14] And I will bring49 again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build50 the waste cities, and inhabit [them]; and they shall plant51 vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. [15] And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall52 no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

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  1. Amos 9:1, The certainty of the desolation; Amos 9:11, The restoring of the tabernacle of David. ↩

  2. 2Chr 18:18; Isa 6:1; Ezek 1:28; John 1:18, John 1:32; Acts 26:13; Rev 1:17 ↩

  3. Amos 3:14; Ezek 9:2, Ezek 10:4 ↩

  4. Isa 6:3-4; Zech 11:1-2 ↩

  5. or, chapiter, or knop ↩

  6. or, wound them, in the head. Ps 68:21; Hab 3:13 ↩

  7. Amos 2:14-15; Isa 24:17-18, Isa 30:16; Jer 48:44 ↩

  8. All these energetic expressions were intended to shew the utter impossibility of escape. ↩

  9. Job 26:6; Ps 139:7-10; Isa 2:19 ↩

  10. Job 20:6; Isa 14:13-16; Jer 49:16, Jer 51:53; Ezek 28:13-16; Obad 1:4; Luke 10:18 ↩

  11. Job 34:22; Jer 23:23-24 ↩

  12. Ps 139:9-11; Jer 16:16 ↩

  13. Isa 27:1 ↩

  14. Lev 26:33, Lev 26:36-39; Deut 28:64-65; Ezek 5:2, Ezek 5:12; Zech 13:8-9 ↩

  15. Lev 17:10; Deut 28:63; 2Chr 16:9; Ps 34:15-16; Jer 24:6, Jer 44:11 ↩

  16. Ps 46:6, Ps 144:5; Isa 64:1; Mic 1:3; Nah 1:6; Hab 3:10; Rev 20:11 ↩

  17. Amos 8:8; Jer 12:4; Hos 4:3 ↩

  18. Ps 32:6, Ps 93:3-4; Isa 8:7-8; Matt 7:27 ↩

  19. Ps 104:3, Ps 104:13 ↩

  20. or, spheres, Heb. ascensions, Maaloth "upper chambers," which in eastern houses are the principal apartments. Perhaps there is a reference here to the various systems which God has created in illimitable space, transcending each other as the planets do in our system. ↩

  21. or, bundle, Gen 2:1 Aguddah probably is the same as the Arabic ijad "an arch, vault," and may here denote the vault of heaven, or atmosphere, which God "hath founded, or established, upon, or over, al the earth," and into which "he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth." ↩

  22. Amos 5:8; Gen 7:11-19; Jer 5:22 ↩

  23. Amos 4:13; Exod 3:14-15 ↩

  24. Jer 9:25-26, Jer 13:23 ↩

  25. Amos 2:10; Exod 12:51; Hos 12:13 ↩

  26. Deut 2:23; Jer 47:4 ↩

  27. Amos 1:5; 2Kgs 16:9 ↩

  28. Amos 9:4; Ps 11:4-6; Prov 5:21, Prov 15:3; Jer 44:27 ↩

  29. Gen 6:7, Gen 7:4; Deut 6:15; 1Kgs 13:34; Hos 1:6, Hos 9:11-17, Hos 13:15-16 ↩

  30. Deut 4:31; Isa 27:7-8; Jer 5:10, Jer 30:11, Jer 31:35-36, Jer 33:24-26; Joel 2:32; Obad 1:16-17; Rom 11:1-7, Rom 11:28-29 ↩

  31. Lev 26:33; Deut 28:64 ↩

  32. Heb. cause to move ↩

  33. Heb. stone ↩

  34. Isa 33:14; Ezek 20:38, Ezek 34:16-17; Zeph 3:11-13; Zech 13:8-9; Mal 3:2-5; Mal 4:1; Matt 3:10-12, Matt 13:41-42, Matt 13:49-50 ↩

  35. Amos 6:1, Amos 6:3; Ps 10:11; Eccl 8:11; Isa 5:19, Isa 28:14-15, Isa 56:12; Jer 18:18; Mal 3:15 ↩

  36. Acts 15:15-17 ↩

  37. Isa 9:6-7, Isa 11:1-10; Jer 23:5-6, Jer 30:9, Jer 33:14-16, Jer 33:20-26; Ezek 17:24; Ezek 34:23-24, Ezek 37:24-25; Hos 3:5; Mic 5:2; Luke 1:31-33, Luke 1:69-70; Acts 2:30-36 ↩

  38. Isa 16:5; Ezek 21:25-27 ↩

  39. Heb. hedge, or wall, Job 1:10; Ps 80:12, Ps 89:40; Isa 5:5 ↩

  40. Ps 143:5; Isa 63:11; Jer 46:26; Lam 5:21; Ezek 36:11; Mic 7:14 ↩

  41. Isa 11:14, Isa 14:1-2; Joel 3:8; Obad 1:18-21 ↩

  42. Gen 27:29, Gen 27:37; Num 24:17; Ps 60:8; Mal 1:4 ↩

  43. Heb. upon whom my name is called, Isa 43:7, Isa 63:19, Isa 65:1; Jer 14:9, Jer 15:16; Dan 9:18-19 ↩

  44. Lev 26:5; Ezek 36:35; Hos 2:21-23; John 4:35 ↩

  45. Heb. draweth forth ↩

  46. Isa 35:1-2, Isa 55:13; Joel 3:18, Joel 3:20 ↩

  47. or, new wine ↩

  48. Amos 9:5; Judg 5:5; Ps 97:5 ↩

  49. Ps 53:6; Jer 30:3, Jer 30:18, Jer 31:23; Ezek 16:53, Ezek 39:25; Joel 3:1-2 ↩

  50. Isa 61:4, Isa 65:21; Jer 30:18, Jer 31:38-40; Ezek 36:33-36, Ezek 37:25-28 ↩

  51. Amos 5:11; Isa 62:8-9; Ezek 28:26; Zeph 1:13 ↩

  52. As the Jews, after their return from Babylon, were driven from their land by the Romans, this can only refer to their future conversion and restoration, and to the security and peace of the church. Isa 60:21; Jer 24:6, Jer 32:41; Ezek 34:28, Ezek 37:25; Joel 3:20; Mic 4:4 ↩