Amos 9 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

¹ For behold I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, as corn is sifted in a sieve: and there shall not a little stone fall to the ground.

² 0 All the sinners of my people shall fall by the sword: who say: The evils shall not approach, and shall not come upon us.

³ 1 In that day I will raise up the tabernacle of David, that is fallen: and I will close up the breaches of the walls thereof, and repair what was fallen: and I will rebuild it as in the days of old.

⁴ 2 That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and all nations, because my name is invoked upon them: saith the Lord that doth these things.

⁵ 3 Behold the days come, saith the Lord, when the ploughman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed: and the mountains shall drop sweetness, and every hill shall be tilled.

⁶ 4 And I will bring back the captivity of my people Israel: and they shall build the abandoned cities, and inhabit them: and they shall plant vineyards, and drink the wine of them: and shall make gardens, and eat the fruits of them.

⁷ 5 And I will plant them upon their own land: and I will no more pluck them out of their land which I have given them, saith the Lord thy God.

⁸ The vision of Abdias. Thus saith the Lord God to Edom: We have heard a rumour from the Lord, and he hath sent an ambassador to the nations: Arise, and let us rise up to battle against him.

⁹ Behold I have made thee small among the nations: thou art exceeding contemptible.

¹⁰ The pride of thy heart hath lifted thee up, who dwellest in the clefts of the rocks, and settest up thy throne on high: who sayest in thy heart: Who shall bring me down to the ground ?

¹¹ Though thou be exalted as an eagle, and though thou set thy nest among the stars: thence will I bring thee down, saith the Lord.

¹² If thieves had gone in to thee, if robbers by night, how wouldst thou have held thy peace? would they not have stolen till they had enough ? if the grapegatherers had come in to thee, would they not have left thee at the least a cluster?

¹³ How have they searched Esau, how have they sought out his hidden things?

¹⁴ They have sent thee out even to the border: all the men of thy confederacy have deceived thee: the men of thy peace have prevailed against thee: they that eat with thee shall lay snares under thee: there is no wisdom in him.

¹⁵ Shall not I in that day, saith the Lord, destroy the wise out of Edom, and understanding out of the mount of Esau ?