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Amos 9:9
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. (Amos 9:9)
I will sift.
 Literally, “I will toss about,” or “I will cause to stagger,” the causative form of the verb nua‘ (see on ch. 8:12). Israel will be scattered “among all nations,” and there tossed about, as it were, in the “sieve” of affliction and persecution that it might be determined through this trial who will remain loyal followers of God and who will cleave to the heathen and refuse to return from captivity.