3 And though they hide themselves on top of Carmel,From there I will search and take them;Though they hide from My sight at the bottom of the sea,From there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them;
4 Though they go into captivity before their enemies,From there I will command the sword,And it shall slay them.I will set My eyes on them for harm and not for good.”
5 The Lord God of hosts,He who touches the earth and it melts,And all who dwell there mourn;All of it shall swell like the River,And subside like the River of Egypt.
6 He who builds His layers in the sky,And has founded His strata in the earth;Who calls for the waters of the sea,And pours them out on the face of the earth—The Lord is His name.
7 “Are you not like the people of Ethiopia to Me,O children of Israel?” says the Lord.“Did I not bring up Israel from the land of Egypt,The Philistines from Caphtor,And the Syrians from Kir?
8 “Behold, the eyes of the Lord God are on the sinful kingdom,And I will destroy it from the face of the earth;Yet I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,”Says the Lord.
9 “For surely I will command,And will sift the house of Israel among all nations,As grain is sifted in a sieve;Yet not the smallest grain shall fall to the ground.