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Amos 9:13

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

Look, the days are coming – this is the  Lord’s declaration – when the ploughman will overtake the reaper, and the one who treads grapes the sower of seed. The mountains will drip with sweet wine, and all the hills will flow with it.

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In that day the mountains will drip with sweet wine, and the hills will flow with milk. All the streams of Judah will flow with water, and a spring will issue from the  Lord’s house, watering the Valley of Acacias.  ,


‘Don’t you say, “There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest”? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open   your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready   for harvest.


Instead of the thorn bush, a cypress will come up, and instead of the briar, a myrtle will come up; this will stand as a monument for the Lord, an everlasting sign that will not be destroyed.


Your threshing will continue until grape harvest, and the grape harvest will continue until sowing time; you will have plenty of food to eat and live securely in your land.


They will say, ‘This land that was desolate has become like the garden of Eden.  The cities that were once ruined, desolate, and demolished are now fortified and inhabited.’


But Judah will be inhabited for ever, and Jerusalem from generation to generation.


The mountains melted before the  Lord, even Sinai,  before the  Lord, the God of Israel.


The Lord, the God of Armies – he touches the earth; it melts, and all who dwell in it mourn; all of it rises like the Nile and subsides like the Nile of Egypt.


He ties his donkey to a vine, and the colt of his donkey to the choice vine. He washes his clothes in wine and his robes in the blood of grapes.


Joy and rejoicing  have been removed from the orchard; no one is singing or shouting for joy in the vineyards. No one tramples grapes  in the winepresses. I have put an end to the shouting.


They will live there securely,  build houses, and plant vineyards.  They will live securely when I execute judgements  against all their neighbours who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the Lord their God.” ’


The threshing-floors will be full of grain, and the vats will overflow with new wine and fresh oil.





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