Amos 9:5-7

Good News Translation

⁵The Sovereign Lord Almighty touches the earth,
    and it quakes;
    all who live there mourn.
The whole world rises and falls like the Nile River.
⁶The Lord builds his home in the heavens,
    and over the earth he puts the dome of the sky.
He calls for the waters of the sea
    and pours them out on the earth.
His name is the Lord!

⁷The Lord says, “People of Israel, I think as much of the people of Ethiopia^[a] as I do of you. I brought the Philistines from Crete and the Syrians from Kir, just as I brought you from Egypt.

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Footnotes

Amos 9:7 Hebrew Cush: Cush is the ancient name of the extensive territory south of the First Cataract of the Nile River. This region was called Ethiopia in Graeco-Roman times, and included within its borders most of modern Sudan and some of present-day Ethiopia (Abyssinia).