Amos 9:14

And I will bring back the captives of My people Yisroel, 1 and they shall build the waste cities, and inhabit them; 1 and they shall plant kramim (vineyards), and drink the yayin thereof; 1 they shall also make gannot, and eat the p'ri of them. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

And 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.

In Context

13Hinei, the yamim are coming, saith Hashem, 1 that the plowman shall overtake the kotzer (reaper), 1 and the treader of grapes him that soweth zera; 1 and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, 1 and all the hills shall flow with it. 1

15And I will plant them upon their land, 1 and they shall no more be torn up 1 out of their land which I have given them, saith Hashem Eloheicha.

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Cross References

Isaiah 61:4And they shall rebuild charvot olam (the old ruins), 1 they shall raise up the shomemot rishonim (former desolations), 1 and they shall make new the cities of chorev (ruin), 1 the shomemot (desolations) dor vador. 1

Isaiah 65:21And they shall build batim (houses), and inhabit them; 1 and they shall plant kramim (vineyards), and eat the fruit of them. 1

Jeremiah 29:14And I will be found by you, saith Hashem; and I will bring you back from captivity, and I will gather you from all the Goyim, and from all the mekomot (places) where I have driven you, saith Hashem; and I will bring you back into the makom (place) from which I caused you to be carried away into the Golus.

Jeremiah 30:18Thus saith Hashem: 1 Hineni, I will bring back the captivity of Ya'akovʼs ohalim, 1 and have compassion on his dwelling places; 1 and the Ir shall be rebuilt upon her own ruins, 1 and the armon (citadel) shall stand on its rightful site. 1

Jeremiah 31:28In those days they shall say no more: 1 The Avot have eaten the sour grape, 1 and the shinayim (teeth) of the Banim are set on edge.

Jeremiah 33:7And I will cause the captives of Yehudah and the captives of Yisroel to return, and will rebuild those places, as at the first.

Matthew Henry on Amos 9:12-15

Promises of Mercy. ( b. c. 784.) 11 In 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: 12 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the Lord that doeth this. 13 Behold, 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,… Read the whole commentary →

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