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Chapter 9
1I saw my LORD standing by the altar, and He said: Strike the capitals so that the thresholds quake, and make an end of the first of them all. And I will slay the last of them with the sword; not one of them shall escape, and not one of them shall survive.
2If they burrow down to Sheol,From there My hand shall take them;And if they ascend to heaven,From there I will bring them down.
3If they hide on the top of Carmel,There I will search them out and seize them;And if they conceal themselves from My sightAt the bottom of the sea,There I will commandThe serpent to bite them.
4And if they go into captivityBefore their enemies,There I will commandThe sword to slay them.I will fix My eye on them for evilAnd not for good.
5It is my Lord the GOD of HostsAt whose touch the earth tremblesAnd all who dwell on it mourn,And all of it swells like the NileAnd subsides like the Nile of Egypt;
6Who built His chambers in heavenAnd founded His vault on the earth,Who summons the waters of the seaAnd pours them over the land—His name is the LORD.
7To Me, O Israelites, you areJust like the Cushites—declares the LORD.True, I brought Israel upFrom the land of Egypt,But also the Philistines from Caphtor✦And the Arameans from Kir.
8Behold, the Lord GOD has His eyeUpon the sinful kingdom:I will wipe it offThe face of the earth!But, I will not wholly wipe outThe House of Jacob—declares the LORD.
9For I will give the orderAnd shake the House of Israel—Through all the nations—As one shakes [sand] in a sieve,And not a pebble falls to the ground.
10All the sinners of My peopleShall perish by the sword,Who boast,“Never shall the evilOvertake us or come near us.”
11In that day,I will set up again the fallen booth of David:I will mend its breaches and set up its ruins anew.I will build it firm as in the days of old,
12So that they shall possess the rest of EdomAnd all the nations once attached to My name—declares the LORD who will bring this to pass.
13A time is coming—declares the LORD—When the plowman shall meet the reaper,And the treader of grapesHim who holds the [bag of] seed;When the mountains shall drip wineAnd all the hills shall wave [with grain].
14I will restore My people Israel.They shall rebuild ruined cities and inhabit them;They shall plant vineyards and drink their wine;They shall till gardens and eat their fruits.
15And I will plant them upon their soil,Nevermore to be uprootedFrom the soil I have given them—said the LORD your God.
Translation: Tanakh: The Holy Scriptures (Jewish Publication Society, 1985), via Sefaria, used under CC BY-NC.
Paragraph divisions follow the Masoretic text (Miqra according to the Masorah, CC BY-SA).