Amos 9:6-8

Good News Translation

⁶The Lord builds his home in the heavens,
and over the earth he puts the dome of the sky.
He calls for the waters of the sea
and pours them out on the earth.
His name is the Lord!

⁷The Lord says, “People of Israel, I think as much of the people of Ethiopia^[a] as I do of you. I brought the Philistines from Crete and the Syrians from Kir, just as I brought you from Egypt. ⁸I, the Sovereign Lord, am watching this sinful kingdom of Israel, and I will destroy it from the face of the earth. But I will not destroy all the descendants of Jacob.

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Footnotes

Amos 9:7 Hebrew Cush: Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman times, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).