Amos 9:5-7

New Catholic Bible

⁵ The Lord, the God of hosts,
    touches the earth and it melts
    so that all who live on it mourn,
while the entire earth rises up like the Nile^[a]
    and then subsides like the River of Egypt.
⁶ He builds his upper chambers in the heavens
    and establishes his vault of the sky over the earth—
    the Lord is his name.

Are you not like the Ethiopians to me,
    O people of Israel?
Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt,
    and the Philistines from Caphtor,
    and the Arameans from Kir?