The Destruction of Israel
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: Psa 68:21Amo 3:14Hab 3:13Isa 6:1Isa 6:3-4Jhn 1:18Rev 1:172Ch 18:18
“Strike the tops of the pillars
so that the thresholds shake.
Topple them on the heads of all the people,
and I will kill the rest with the sword.
None of those who flee will get away;
none of the fugitives will escape.
Though they dig down to Sheol, Jer 51:53Psa 139:7-10Oba 1:4Ezk 28:13-16Isa 14:13-16Isa 2:19Jer 49:16Job 20:6
from there My hand will take them;
and though they climb up to heaven,
from there I will pull them down.
Though they hide themselves atop Carmel, Jer 16:16Isa 27:1Jer 23:23-24Job 34:22Amo 1:2Psa 139:9-11
there I will track them and seize them;
and though they hide from Me at the bottom of the sea,
there I will command the serpent 1to bite them.
Though they are driven by their enemies into captivity, Lev 26:33Jer 21:10Jer 44:11Deu 28:63-65Ezk 5:12Jer 39:16Lev 17:102Ch 16:9
there I will command the sword to slay them.
I will fix My eyes upon them
for harm and not for good.”
The Lord GOD of Hosts, Amo 8:8Psa 46:6Isa 64:1Mic 1:3-4Rev 20:11Hab 3:10Hos 4:3Jer 12:4
He who touches the earth and it melts,
and all its dwellers mourn—
all the land rises like the Nile,
then sinks like the river of Egypt—
He builds His upper rooms in the heavens Amo 5:8Psa 104:3Amo 4:13Psa 104:13Jer 5:22Exo 3:14-15Gen 2:1Gen 7:11-19
and founds His vault upon the earth.
He summons the waters of the sea
and pours them over the face of the earth.
The LORD is His name.
“Are you not like the Cushites 2to Me, Jer 47:42Ki 16:9Deu 2:23Amo 1:5Amo 2:10Jer 9:25-26Hos 12:13Isa 20:4
O children of Israel?”
declares the LORD.
“Did I not bring Israel
up from the land of Egypt,
the Philistines from Caphtor, 3
and the Arameans from Kir?
Surely the eyes of the Lord GOD Jer 30:11Amo 9:4Jer 44:27Jer 5:101Ki 13:34Deu 4:31Deu 6:15Gen 6:7
are on the sinful kingdom,
and I will destroy it from the face of the earth.
Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”
declares the LORD.
“For surely I will give the command, Luk 22:31Deu 28:64Isa 30:28Lev 26:33
and I will shake the house of Israel
among all the nations
as grain is sifted in a sieve;
but not a pebble will reach the ground.
All the sinners among My people Amo 6:3Isa 33:14Mat 13:49-50Amo 6:1Ecc 8:11Ezk 34:16-17Isa 28:14-15Isa 5:19
will die by the sword—
all those who say,
‘Disaster will never draw near or confront us.’”
A Promise of Restoration
(Acts 15:5–21)
“In that day I will restore Act 15:15-17Jer 33:14-16Isa 16:5Jer 23:5-6Psa 80:12Ezk 17:24Hos 3:5Isa 63:11
the fallen tent of David.
I will repair its gaps, restore its ruins,
and rebuild it as in the days of old,
that they may possess the remnant of Edom Isa 43:7Act 15:17Isa 65:1Dan 9:18-19Isa 63:19Jer 14:9Isa 14:1-2Num 24:17-18
and all the nations that bear My name,” 4
declares the LORD, who will do this.
“Behold, the days are coming,” Jol 3:18Jhn 4:35Isa 55:13Lev 26:5Isa 35:1-2Ezk 36:35Hos 2:21-23Jol 3:20
declares the LORD,
“when the plowman will overtake the reaper
and the treader of grapes, the sower of seed.
The mountains will drip with sweet wine,
with which all the hills will flow.
I will restore My people Israel from captivity; 5 Isa 61:4Jer 30:3Jer 30:18Ezk 28:26Jer 31:28Isa 65:21Psa 53:6Ezk 37:25-28
they will rebuild and inhabit the ruined cities.
They will plant vineyards and drink their wine;
they will make gardens and eat their fruit.
I will firmly plant them in their own land, Jer 24:6Ezk 37:25Isa 60:21Ezk 34:28Jol 3:20Jer 32:41Mic 4:4
never again to be uprooted
from the land that I have given them,”
says the LORD your God.