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9:1  I saw the Lord standing by the altar, and he said: “·Smash [Strike] the top of the pillars so that even the ·bottom of the doors [thresholds] will shake. ·Make the pillars fall [L Strike/Shatter them] on the people’s heads; anyone left alive I will kill with a sword. Not one person will get away; no one will escape.
9:2  If they dig down ·as deep as the place of the dead [or into the depths of the earth; L into Sheol], ·I [L My hand] will pull them up from there. If they climb up into heaven, I will bring them down from there.
9:3  If they hide at the top of Mount Carmel, I will ·find them [hunt them down] and ·take them away [seize them]. If they try to hide from me at the bottom of the sea, I will command ·a snake [or the serpent; C perhaps the mythological beast symbolic of chaos] to bite them.
9:4  If they are ·captured and taken away [driven into exile] by their enemies, I will command the sword to ·kill [slay] them. I will ·keep watch over them [fix my eyes on them], but ·I will keep watch to give them trouble, not to do them good [L for evil/harm, not for good/prosperity].”
9:5  The Lord God ·All-Powerful [Almighty; of Heaven’s Armies; T of hosts] touches the land, and the land ·shakes [dissolves; melts]. Then everyone who lives in the land ·cries for the dead [mourns]. The whole ·land [or earth] rises like the Nile River and ·falls [sinks; subsides] like the river of Egypt [8:8].
9:6  The Lord builds his ·upper rooms [or steps] ·above the skies [in the heavens]; he sets their foundations on the earth. He calls for the waters of the sea and pours them out on the ·land [L face of the earth/land; C as rain]. The Lord is his name.
9:7  The Lord says, “Israel, you are no different to me than the people of Cush [C Ethiopia]. ·I brought [L Did I not bring…?] Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from ·Crete [L Caphtor], and the Arameans [C Syrians] from Kir.
9:8  [L Look; T Behold] I, the Lord God, am watching the sinful kingdom [C Israel]. I will destroy it from ·off [L the face of] the earth, but I will not completely destroy ·Jacob’s descendants [L the house of Jacob],” says the Lord.
9:9  “[L For look/T behold] I am giving the command to ·scatter [L shake] the nation of Israel among all nations. It will be like someone shaking grain through a ·strainer [sieve], but not even a ·tiny stone [pebble; or kernel of grain] falls ·through [L to the ground].
9:10  All the sinners among my people will die by the sword— those who say, ‘·Nothing bad will happen to us [L Disaster will not approach and meet us].’
9:11  In that day I will ·restore [rebuild; raise up] the ·tent [hut; shack; C referring to the weakened state of the Davidic dynasty] of David that has fallen, and ·mend [repair] its broken places. I will ·rebuild [restore; raise up] its ruins as it was ·before [in days long ago/of antiquity].
9:12  Then Israel ·will take over [possess; conquer] ·what is left [the remnant] of Edom and the other nations that ·belong to me [L are called by my name],” says the Lord, who will make it happen.
9:13  The Lord says, “The time is coming when there will be all kinds of food. ·People will still be harvesting crops when it’s time to plow again [L The plowman will overtake the reaper]. ·People will still be taking the juice from grapes when it’s time to plant again [L …and the treader of grapes (will overtake) the one who sows the seed]. Wine will drip from the mountains and pour from the hills [C symbols of great prosperity].
9:14  I will bring my people Israel back from ·captivity [exile]; they will build the ruined cities again, and they will live in them. They will plant vineyards and drink the wine from them; they will plant ·gardens [or orchards] and eat their fruit.
9:15  I will plant my people on their land, and they will not be ·pulled out again [uprooted] from the land which I have given them,” says the Lord your God.