Amos 9:5

Contemporary English Version 1995

When the Lord God All-Powerful touches the earth, it melts, and its people mourn. God makes the earth rise and then fall, just like the Nile River.

Cross References

Amos 8:8

Your country will tremble, and you will mourn. It will be like the Nile River that rises and overflows, then sinks back down.

Psalm 46:6

Nations rage! Kingdoms fall! But at the voice of God the earth itself melts.

Revelation 20:11

I saw a great white throne with someone sitting on it. Earth and heaven tried to run away, but there was no place for them to go.

Isaiah 64:1

Rip the heavens apart! Come down, Lord; make the mountains tremble.

Matthew 7:27

Rain poured down, rivers flooded, and the winds blew and beat against that house. Finally, it fell with a crash.

Habakkuk 3:10

mountains trembled at the sight of you; rain poured from the clouds; ocean waves roared and rose.

Nahum 1:6

Who can stand the heat of his furious anger? It flashes out like fire and shatters stones.

Hosea 4:3

And so your land is a desert. Every living creature is dying— people and wild animals, birds and fish.

Jeremiah 12:4

How long will the ground be dry and the pasturelands parched? The birds and animals are dead and gone. And all of this happened because the people are so sinful. They even brag, “God can't see the sins we commit.”

Psalm 144:5

Open the heavens like a curtain and come down, Lord. Touch the mountains and make them send up smoke.

Psalm 32:6

We worship you, Lord, and we should always pray whenever we find out that we have sinned. Then we won't be swept away by a raging flood.

Psalm 97:5

Mountains melt away like wax in the presence of the Lord of all the earth.

Psalm 104:32

You look at the earth, and it trembles. You touch the mountains, and smoke goes up.

Nahum 1:5

At the sight of the Lord, mountains and hills tremble and melt; the earth and its people shudder and shake.