5. The Lord God of hosts,he who touches the earth and it melts,and all who dwell in it mourn, and all of it rises like the Nile, and sinks again, like the Nile of Egypt;
6. who builds his upper chambers in the heavensand founds his vault upon the earth; who calls for the waters of the seaand pours them out upon the surface of the earth— the Lord is his name.
7. “Are you not like the Cushites to me,O people of Israel?” declares the Lord. “Did I not bring up Israel from 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 the surface of the ground, except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”declares the Lord.
9. “For behold, I will command, and shake the house of Israel among all the nationsas one shakes with a sieve,but no pebble shall fall to the earth.
10. All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,who say, ‘Disaster shall not overtake or meet us.’
11. “In that day I will raise upthe booth of David that is fallenand repair its breaches,and raise up its ruinsand rebuild it as in the days of old,