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Read Full Chapter (Amos 9) Amos 9:10 KJV
"All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us."
Amos Chapter 9, Verse 10
Amos 9:10 in Context (Verses 7–13 KJV)
7
Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians unto me, O children of Israel? saith the LORD. Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt? and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?
8
Behold, the eyes of the Lord GOD are upon the sinful kingdom, and I will destroy it from off the face of the earth; saving that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob, saith the LORD.
9
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.**
10
All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword, which say, The evil shall not overtake nor prevent us.
11
¶ In that day will I raise up the tabernacle of David that is fallen, and close up the breaches thereof; and I will raise up his ruins, and I will build it as in the days of old:*
12
That they may possess the remnant of Edom, and of all the heathen, which are called by my name, saith the LORD that doeth this.*
13
Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that the plowman shall overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that soweth seed; and the mountains shall drop sweet wine, and all the hills shall melt.**