Amos 9:9
For lo! I am giving command, and will sift, throughout all the nations, the house of Israel,—as grain is sifted in a sieve, yet shall there not fall a kernel, to the earth.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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Leviticus 26:33When, even you, I scatter among the nations, And make bare after you, a sword, Then shall your land become an astonishment, And your cities become a desolation.
Isaiah 27:12And it shall come to pass, in that day, That Yahweh will beat off his fruit from the stream of the River [="Euphrates"], unto the torrent-valley of Egypt,—And, ye, shall be picked up, one by one O sons of Israel.
Isaiah 30:28And, his breath like an overflowing torrent, even unto the neck, doth reach, To sift nations with a sieve of calamity,—A bridle leading to ruin, being upon the jaws of the peoples.
Ezekiel 39:28And they shall know that, I Yahweh, am their God, When I have carried them into exile among the nations, And shall then gather them upon their own soil,- And shall no more leave any of them there.
Matthew Henry on Amos 9:2-11
The Certainty of the Sinner's Doom. ( b. c. 784.) 1 I 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. 2 Though they dig into hell, thence shall mine hand take them; though they climb up to heaven, thence will I bring them down: 3 And though they hide themselves in the top of… Read the whole commentary →