Kedoshim

This translation was taken from the JPS Tanakh

Amos 9:7-15

Sepharadim read Ezekiel 20:1-20

⁷ To Me, O Israelites, you are
Just like the Ethiopians

— declares the Lord —

True, I brought Israel up
From the land of Egypt,
But also the Philistines from Caphtor
And the Arameans from Kir.
⁸ Behold, the Lord God has His eye
Upon the sinful kingdom:
I will wipe it off
The face of the earth!

But, I will not wholly wipe out
The House of Jacob

— declares the Lord —

⁹ For I will give the order
And shake the House of Israel — 
Through all the nations — 
As one shakes [sand] in a sieve,
And not a pebble falls to the ground.
¹⁰ All the sinners of My people
Shall perish by the sword,
Who boast,
“Never shall the evil
Overtake us or come near us.”

¹¹ In that day,
I will set up again the fallen booth of David:
I will mend its breaches and set up its ruins anew.
I will build it firm as in the days of old,
¹² So that they shall possess the rest of Edom
And all the nations once attached to My name
— declares the Lord who will bring this to pass. ¹³ A time is coming

— declares the Lord —

When the plowman shall meet the reaper,
And the treader of grapes
Him who holds the [bag of] seed;
When the mountains shall drip wine
And all the hills shall wave [with grain].

¹⁴ I will restore My people Israel.
They shall rebuild ruined cities and inhabit them;
They shall plant vineyards and drink their wine;
They shall till gardens and eat their fruits.
¹⁵ And I will plant them upon their soil,
Nevermore to be uprooted
From the soil I have given them

— declares the Lord —

Taken from Tanakh, The Holy Scriptures, (Philadelphia, Jerusalem: Jewish Publication Society) 1985.
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