Daily Bible Reading

⁵ The Lord, God of hosts,
he who touches the earth and it melts,
 and all who live 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 heavens
 and founds his vault upon the earth,
who calls for the waters of the sea
 and 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? says the Lord.
Did I not bring Israel up from the land of Egypt
 and the Philistines from Caphtor and the Arameans from Kir?
‍⁸ The eyes of the Lord God are upon the sinful kingdom,
 and I will destroy it from the face of the earth
 —except that I will not utterly destroy the house of Jacob,
says the Lord.

‍⁹ For I will command
 and shake the house of Israel among all the nations,
as one shakes with a sieve
 but no pebble shall fall to the ground.
‍¹⁰ All the sinners of my people shall die by the sword,
 who say, “Evil shall not overtake or meet us.”
‍¹¹ On that day I will raise up
 the booth of David that is fallen
and repair its breaches
 and raise up its ruins
 and rebuild it as in the days of old,
‍¹² in order that they may possess the remnant of Edom
 and all the nations who are called by my name,
 says the Lord who does this.
‍¹³ The time is surely coming, says the Lord,
 when the one who plows shall catch up with the one who reaps
 and the treader of grapes with the one who sows the seed;
the mountains shall drip sweet wine,
 and all the hills shall flow with it.
‍¹⁴ I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel,
 and they shall rebuild the ruined cities and inhabit them;
they shall plant vineyards and drink their wine,
 and they shall make gardens and eat their fruit.
‍¹⁵ I will plant them upon their land,
 and they shall never again be plucked up
 out of the land that I have given them,