Amos 9:4

Even in captivity they would not be safe; they might escape the destruction of the foe, but the Divine sword should yet overtake them.

before their enemies Driven before them, like a flock of sheep: cf. Lamentations 1:5.

I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good To set the eye uponis elsewhere found always in a good sense = to keep watch over, take under one's care (see Jeremiah 24:6; Jeremiah 39:11). For evil and not for good, as Jeremiah 21:10 (with "to set the face against"), Jeremiah 39:16; and (with "watch over") Jeremiah 44:27. God's watchful care and love is transformed, through His people's sin, into hostility (cf. on Amos 6:8).