Amos 9:9

Good News Translation

“I will give the command and shake the people of Israel like grain in a sieve. I will shake them among the nations to remove all who are worthless.

Cross References

Isaiah 27:12

On that day, from the Euphrates to the Egyptian border, the Lord will gather his people one by one, as threshing separates the wheat from the chaff.

Isaiah 28:28

They do not ruin the wheat by threshing it endlessly, and they know how to thresh it by driving a cart over it without bruising the grains.

Isaiah 30:28

He sends the wind in front of him like a flood that carries everything away. It sweeps nations to destruction and puts an end to their evil plans.

Jeremiah 31:36

He promises that as long as the natural order lasts, so long will Israel be a nation.

Jeremiah 46:28

I will come to you and save you. I will destroy all the nations where I have scattered you, but I will not destroy you. I will not let you go unpunished; but when I punish you, I will be fair. I, the Lord, have spoken.”

Jeremiah 49:36

I will make winds blow against Elam from all directions, and I will scatter her people everywhere, until there is no country where her refugees have not gone.

Ezekiel 20:38

I will take away from among you those who are rebellious and sinful. I will take them out of the lands where they are living now, but I will not let them return to the land of Israel. Then you will know that I am the Lord.”

Ezekiel 36:19

I condemned them for the way they lived and acted, and I scattered them through foreign countries.

Ezekiel 39:28

Then my people will know that I am the Lord their God. They will know this, because I sent them into captivity and now gather them and bring them back into their own land, not leaving even one of them behind.

Ezekiel 5:10

As a result, parents in Jerusalem will eat their children, and children will eat their parents. I will punish you and scatter in every direction any who are left alive.

Ezekiel 5:12

A third of your people will die from sickness and hunger in the city; a third will be cut down by swords outside the city; and I will scatter the last third to the winds and pursue them with a sword.

Leviticus 26:33

I will bring war on you and scatter you in foreign lands. Your land will be deserted, and your cities left in ruins.

Luke 22:31

“Simon, Simon! Listen! Satan has received permission to test all of you, to separate the good from the bad, as a farmer separates the wheat from the chaff.

Deuteronomy 28:64

“The Lord will scatter you among all the nations, from one end of the earth to the other, and there you will serve gods made of wood and stone, gods that neither you nor your ancestors have ever worshiped before.