“Strike the capitals until the thresholds shake,

and shatter them on the heads of all the people;²

and those who are left of them I will kill with the sword;

not one of them shall flee away;

not one of them shall escape.

2  ^h“If they dig into Sheol,

from there shall my hand take them;

ⁱif they climb up to heaven,

from there I will bring them down.

3  If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel,

from there I will search them out and take them;

and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea,

there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.

4  And if they go into captivity before their enemies,

there I will command the sword, and it shall kill them;

and I will fix my eyes upon them

^jfor evil and not for good.”

5  The Lord God of hosts,

he who touches the earth and it melts,

and ^kall who dwell in it mourn,

and all of it rises like the Nile,

and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;

6  who builds his upper chambers in the heavens

and founds his vault upon the earth;

^lwho calls for the waters of the sea

and pours them out upon the surface of the earth—

the Lord is his name.

7  “Are you not like the Cushites to me,

O people of Israel?” declares the Lord.

“Did I not bring up ^mIsrael from the land of Egypt,

and the Philistines from ⁿCaphtor and the Syrians from ^oKir?

8  Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,

and I will destroy it from the surface of the ground,

except that ^pI will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”

declares the Lord.

9  “For behold, I will command,

and shake the house of Israel among all the nations

as one shakes with a ^qsieve,

but no pebble shall fall to the earth.

10  All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,

^rwho say, ^s‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’

11  ^t“In that day I will raise up

the booth of David that is fallen

and repair its breaches,

and raise up its ruins

and ^urebuild it as in the days of old,

12  that they may possess the remnant of Edom

and all the nations who are ^vcalled by my name,”³

declares the Lord who does this.

13  “Behold, the days are coming,” declares the Lord,

^w“when the plowman shall overtake the reaper

and the treader of grapes him who sows the seed;

^xthe mountains shall drip sweet wine,

and all the hills shall flow with it.

14  ^yI will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,

and they shall rebuild the ^zruined cities and inhabit them;

they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,

and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.

15  ^aI will plant them on their land,

and they shall never again be uprooted

out of the land that I have given them,”

says the Lord your God.