3 If they hide at the top of Mount Carmel,I will find them and take them away.If they try to hide from me at the bottom of the sea,I will command a snake to bite them.
4 If they are captured and taken away by their enemies,I will command the sword to kill them.I will keep watch over them,but I will keep watch to give them trouble, not to do them good.”
5 The Lord God All-Powerful touches the land,and the land shakes.Then everyone who lives in the land cries for the dead.The whole land rises like the Nile Riverand falls like the river of Egypt.
6 The Lord builds his upper rooms above the skies;he sets their foundations on the earth.He calls for the waters of the seaand pours them out on the land.The Lord is his name.
7 The Lord says,“Israel, you are no different to me than the people of Cush.I brought Israel out of the land of Egypt,and the Philistines from Crete,and the Arameans from Kir.
8 I, the Lord God, am watching the sinful kingdom Israel.I will destroy itfrom off the earth,but I will not completely destroyJacob’s descendants,” says the Lord.
9 “I am giving the commandto scatter the nation of Israel among all nations.It will be like someone shaking grain through a strainer,but not even a tiny stone falls through.