Amos 9:7

Amos 9:7

5 The Lord God of hosts,
He who touches the earth and it ^amelts,
^bAnd all who dwell there mourn;
All of it shall swell like¹ the River,
And subside like the River of Egypt.

6 He who builds His ^alayers in the sky,
And has founded His strata in the earth;
Who ^bcalls for the waters of the sea,
And pours them out on the face of the earth—
^cThe Lord is His name.

7 “Are you not like the¹ people of Ethiopia to Me,
O children of Israel?” says the Lord.
“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,
The ^aPhilistines from ^bCaphtor,
And the Syrians from ^cKir?

8 “Behold, ^athe eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,
And I ^bwill 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 will¹ sift the house of Israel among all nations,
As grain is sifted in a sieve;
^aYet not the smallest¹ grain shall fall to the ground.

10 All the sinners of My people shall die by the sword,
^aWho say, ‘The calamity shall not overtake nor confront us.’

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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unto me—however great ye seem to yourselves. Do not rely on past privileges, and on My having delivered you from Egypt, as if therefore I never would remove you from Canaan. I make no more account of you than of "the Ethiopian" (compare Jeremiah 13:23). "Have not I (who) brought you out of Egypt," done as much for other peoples? For instance, did I not bring "the Philistines (see on Isaiah 14:29, etc.) from Caphtor (compare Deuteronomy 2:23; see on Jeremiah 47:4), where they had been bond-servants, and the Syrians from Kir?" It is appropriate, that as the Syrians migrated into Syria from Kir (compare Note, see on Isaiah 22:6), so they should be carried back captive into the same land (see on Amos 1:15; II Kings 16:9), just as elsewhere Israel is threatened with a return to Egypt whence they had been delivered. The "Ethiopians," Hebrew, "Cushites," were originally akin to the race that founded Babylon: the cuneiform inscriptions in this confirming independently the Scripture statement (Genesis 10:6, Genesis 10:8, Genesis 10:10).

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