Amos 9:7

Are ye not as children of the Ethiopians— Amos, to take away from the Israelites their false presumption, that the Lord was too much interested in their preservation to prevent their total ruin, says that, in consequence of their infidelity and revolt, God regards them no otherwise than as Ethiopians. "You have rendered yourselves unworthy the name of my people; you have renounced by your idolatry the privileges of that peculiar covenant which I entered into with your fathers; you have given up me, and I give you up in my turn. But, Lord, is it not thou who hast brought us out of Egypt? Yes, doubtless: but have I not also brought up the Philistines from Caphtor, and the Syrians from Kir? Yet, are they the more my servants and my people on this account?" See Calmet.