1I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered.[ † ]Psalms 68:21Habakkuk 3:13Amos 2:14 2Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down:[ † ]Psalms 139:8Jeremiah 23:24Job 20:6Jeremiah 51:53Obadiah 4Matthew 11:23 3and though they hide 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 serpent, and he shall bite them:[ † ]Jeremiah 23:24 4and though they go into captivity before their enemies, thence will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.[ † ]Leviticus 26:33Leviticus 17:10Jeremiah 21:10Jeremiah 39:16Jeremiah 44:11
5And the Lord God of hosts is he that toucheth the land, and it shall melt, and all that dwell therein shall mourn: and it shall rise up wholly like a flood; and shall be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.[ † ]Psalms 104:32Psalms 144:5Isaiah 64:1Micah 1:4Amos 8:8 6It is he that buildeth his stories in the heaven, and hath founded his troop in the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: The Lord is his name.[ † ]Psalms 104:3-13Amos 5:8Amos 4:13Amos 5:27
7Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the Lord . Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?[ † ]Jeremiah 47:4Deuteronomy 2:23Amos 1:5 8Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the Lord .[ † ]Jeremiah 44:27Amos 9:4Jeremiah 5:10Jeremiah 30:11Joel 2:32Amos 3:12Obadiah 16, 17
9For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.[ † ]Isaiah 65:8-16 10All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.[ † ]Isaiah 28:15Jeremiah 5:12Amos 6:3
11In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:[ † ]Acts 15:16-18 12that they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doeth this.[ † ]Obadiah 19Numbers 24:18Isaiah 11:14
13Behold, the days come, saith the Lord , that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.[ † ]Leviticus 26:5Joel 3:18 14And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them ; and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine thereof; they shall also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them.[ † ]Psalms 53:6Isaiah 60:4Jeremiah 30:3-18Isaiah 61:4 15And I will plant them upon their land, and they shall no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.[ † ]Isaiah 60:21Ezekiel 34:28Ezekiel 37:25