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Amos 9

Threatenings against the Temple, 2 And against Israél. 11 The restoring of the Church.
1.I saw the Lord standing upon the aaltar, and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in pieces, even the bheads of them all, & I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them, shal not flee away: and he that escapeth of them, shal not be delivered.
2.Though they dig into the hell, thence shal mine hand take them: though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down.
3.And though they hide them selves in the top of Carmél, 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 cserpent, and he shal bite them.
4.And though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shal slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil: and not for good.
5.And the Lord God of hostes shal touch the land, and it shal melt away, and all that dwell therein, shal mourn, and it shal rise up wholly like a flood, & shalbe drowned as by the flood of Egypt.
6.He buildeth his dspheres in the heaven, and hath laid the foundation of his globe of elements in the earth: he calleth the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the open earth: the Lord is his Name.
7.Are ye not as the Ethiopians eunto me, ô children of Israél, saith the Lord? have not I brought up Israél out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistims from fCaphtór, and Arám from Kir?
8.Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it clean out of the earth. Nevertheless I will not utterly gdestroy the house of Jaakób, saith the Lord.
9.For lo, I will command and I will sift the house of Israél among all nations, like as corn is sifted in the sieve: yet shal not the hleast stone fall upon the earth.
10.But all the sinners of my people shal die by the sword, which say, The evil shal not come, nor hasten for us.
11.In that day will I raise up the itabernacle of David, that is fallen down, and close up the breaches thereof, and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it, as in the days of old,
12.That they may possess the remnant of kEdóm, and of all the heathen, because my Name is called upon them, saith the Lord, that doeth this.
13.Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that the plowman shal ltouch the mower, & the treader of grapes him that soweth seed: & the mountains shal mdrop sweet wine, & all the hills shal melt.
14.nAnd I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israél: and they shal build the waste cities, and inhabit them, and they shal plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof: they shal also make gardens, and eat the fruits of them.
15.And I will plant them upon their land, and they shal no more be pulled up again out of their land, which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

Notes

1-a.
Which was at Jerusalem: for he appeared not in the idolatrous places of Israel.
1-b.
Both the chief of them and also the common people.
3-c.
He shows that God will declare himself enemy unto them in all places, and that his elements and all creatures shall be enemies to destroy them.
6-d.
He declares by the wonderful power of God, by the making of the heavens and the elements that it is not possible for man to escape his judgements when he punishes.
7-e.
Am I more bound to you then to the Ethiopians or blackmoors? yet have I bestowed upon you greater benefits.
7-f.
Read, Jer. 47.4.
8-g.
Though he destroy the rebellious multitude, yet he will ever reserve the remnant his Church to call upon his Name.
9-h.
Meaning, that none of his should perish in his wrath.
11-i.
I will send the Messiah promised, and restore by him the spiritual Israel, Acts 15.16.
12-k.
Meaning that the very enemies, as were the Edomites and others, should be joined with the Jews in one society and body, whereof Christ should be the head.
13-l.
Signifying that there shall be great plenty of all things so that when one kind of fruit is ripe, another should follow and every one in course, Lev. 26.5.
13-m.
Read Joel 3.18.
14-n.
The accomplishment hereof is under Christ, when they are planted in his Church, out of that which they can never be pulled, after they are once grafted therein.