Amos 9:9
For, lo, I will command, and tI will 5sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least 6grain fall upon the earth.
For, lo, I will command, and I will sift the house of Israel among all nations, like as corn is sifted in a sieve, yet shall not the least grain fall upon the earth.
t:
Leviticus 26:33 And I will scatter you among the heathen, and will draw out a sword after you: and your land shall be desolate, and your cities waste.
Deuteronomy 28:64 And the LORD shall scatter thee among all people, from the one end of the earth even unto the other; and there thou shalt serve other gods, which neither thou nor thy fathers have known, even wood and stone.
Matthew 3:12 Whose fan is in his hand, and he will throughly purge his floor, and gather his wheat into the garner; but he will burn up the chaff with unquenchable fire.
5:
Heb. cause to move.
6:
Heb. stone.
as this confirms what the 8th verse promiseth, so it requireth a very diligent and full attention of us.
or give a charge to all nations whither these exiled persons shall come, and they shall observe the charge, it shall as surely be done as it is spoken.
though Assyrians and other nations be the means and instruments, yet God’s hand is principal; whilst they would toss and scatter Israel with violence, yet God will hold the sieve, and guide their hands, and set bounds to their violence.
by a skilful and careful husbandman, who designs to separate the chaff from the corn; to preserve this, to tread the other under foot.
though covered under much chaff, though tumbled and tossed with the greatest violence, and without any regard to it, yet the smallest and least regarded good grain shall not be lost or destroyed with that fire which consumeth the chaff.
i.e. perish, or be lost; so the phrase 1Sa 26:20 2Sa 14:11 1Ki 1:52. Here is a promise of preservation as great and wonderful, and as hardly comprehended, as was the threatened punishment.