Amos 9:6-8

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⁶ The Lord builds his ·upper rooms [or steps] ·above the skies [in the heavens];
    he sets their foundations on the earth.
He calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out on the ·land [^Lface of the earth/land; ^Cas rain].
    The Lord is his name.
⁷ The Lord says,
“Israel, you are no different to me than the people of Cush [^CEthiopia].
·I brought [^LDid I not bring…?] Israel out of the land of Egypt,
    and the Philistines from ·Crete [^LCaphtor],
    and the Arameans [^CSyrians] from Kir.
⁸ [^LLook; ^TBehold] I, the Lord God, am watching the sinful kingdom [^CIsrael].
I will destroy it
    from ·off [^Lthe face of] the earth,
but I will not completely destroy
    ·Jacob’s descendants [^Lthe house of Jacob],” says the Lord.