¹ I saw the Lord standing on the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will kill the last of them with the sword: he that flees of them will not flee away, and he that escapes of them will not be delivered. ² though they dig into hell, from there will mine hand take them; even though they climb up to heaven, from there will I bring them down ³ And even though they hide themselves in the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out From there; and even though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, from there will I command the serpent, and he will bite them ⁴ And even though they go into captivity before their enemies, from there will I command the sword, and it will kill them: and I will set my eyes on them for evil, and not for good. ⁵ And the Lord GOD of hosts is he that touches the land, and it will melt, and all that dwell in it will mourn: and it will rise up wholly like a flood; and will be drowned, as by the flood of Egypt. ⁶ It is he that builds his stories in the heaven, and has founded his troop in the earth; he that calls for the waters of the sea, and pours them out on the face of the earth: The LORD is his name. ⁷ Are you not as children of the Ethiopians to me, O children of Israel? says 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 See, the eyes of the Lord GOD are on 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, says 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 will not the least grain fall on the earth. ¹⁰ All the sinners of my people will die by the sword, which say, The evil will 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 of it; 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, says the LORD that does this. ¹³ See, the days come, says the LORD, that the plowman will overtake the reaper, and the treader of grapes him that sows seed; and the mountains will drop sweet wine, and all the hills will melt. ¹⁴ And I will bring again the captivity of my people of Israel, and they will build the waste cities, and inhabit them; and they will plant vineyards, and drink the wine of it; they will also make gardens, and eat the fruit of them. ¹⁵ And I will plant them on their land, and they will no more be pulled up out of their land which I have given them, says the LORD your God.