הֲל֣וֹא כִבְנֵי֩ כֻשִׁיִּ֨ים אַתֶּ֥ם לִ֛י בְּנֵ֥י יִשְׂרָאֵ֖ל נְאֻם־יְהוָ֑ה הֲל֣וֹא אֶת־יִשְׂרָאֵ֗ל הֶעֱלֵ֙יתִי֙ מֵאֶ֣רֶץ מִצְרַ֔יִם וּפְלִשְׁתִּיִּ֥ים מִכַּפְתּ֖וֹר וַאֲרָ֥ם מִקִּֽיר׃
פֿאַר װאָר, אַזױ װי די קינדער פֿון כּושים זײַט איר מיר, קינדער פֿון ישׂראל, זאָגט גאָט. פֿאַר װאָר, איך האָב אױפֿגעבראַכט ישׂראל פֿון לאַנד מִצרַיִם, און די פּלִשתּים פֿון כַּפֿתּוֹר, און אַרָם פֿון קיר.
Tze'enah Ure'enah
“To Me, O Israelites, you are just like the Ethiopians, declares the Lord” [9:7]. The prophet says: Israel are compared to the black Moors and are sold as slaves.1Radak, Amos, 9:7. It was just that they should be My servants because I took them out of Egypt. I have not done this for any other nation, to help them to be taken out of the exile in which they are found. The Ibn Ezra writes that the Ethiopian women were very promiscuous and nobody knew their father. However, you were previously the children of one father, not like the Philistines and Arameans who are intermingled.2Ibn Ezra, Amos, 9:7.
Rashi
Are you not like the children of the Cushites to Me—Why should I refrain from exacting retribution upon you since you do not return to Me? Have you not come from the sons of Noah like the other nations? Like the Cushites whom you resemble, as the matter is stated: (Jer. 13:22) “Will a Cushite change his skin…? So will you be able to improve.”
Abarbanel
The final prophecy begins in this pasuk and goes until the end of Sefer Amos. And it has two parts to it. The first "you are unto Me like the Cushite" and the second "behold days are coming". I have six questions.
Rashi
Did I not—Was it not out of My goodness, the beginning of My choosing you, My taking you out of the land of Egypt? Now what is that to Me? The Philistines, too, I took out of Caphtor in such a manner when the Caphtorites came upon the Avvites, as the matter is stated (Deut. 2:23) “And the Avvites who lived in open towns up to Gaza etc.” They vanquished also the people of Gaza and the remaining lords of the Philistines under them, and I took them out of their hands, and, even so, I did not make them My people.
Rashi
and Aram from Kir—And so am I destined to bring Aram up from Kir, where Sennacherib will exile them, and, at the end of days, when the kingdom of Assyria will terminate, they will go out.