Amos 9:1-5 Contemporary English Version Anglicised (CEVUK00)

1. I saw a vision of the Lordstanding by the temple altar,and he said,“Shake the columnsuntil the tops fall loose,and the doorposts crumble.Then make the pieces fallon the people below.I will take a sword and killanyone who escapes.

2. “If they dig deep into the earthor climb to the sky,I'll reach out and get them.

3. If they escape to the peaksof Mount Carmel,I'll search and find them.And if they hide from meat the bottom of the ocean,I'll command a sea monsterto bite them.

4. I'll send a sword to kill them,wherever their enemiesdrag them off as captives.I'm determined to hurt them,not to help them.”

5. When the Lord God All-Powerfultouches the earth, it melts,and its people mourn.God makes the earth riseand then fall,just like the River Nile.

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