Beside the Altar — Amos 9:5–7

For the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, is he that toucheth the land and it melteth, and all that dwell therein shall mourn; and it shall rise up wholly like the River, and shall sink again, like the River of Egypt; it is he that buildeth his chambers in the heavens, and hath founded his vault upon the earth; he that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth; Jehovah is his name.

Are ye not as the children of the Ethiopians unto me,
O children of Israel? saith Jehovah.
Have not I brought up Israel out of the land of Egypt, and the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir?