Amos 4:12

Therefore thus I will do to thee, O Israel, [and] because I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

In Context

11I have overthrown [cities] among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning. Yet ye have not returned to me, says LORD.

13For, lo, he who forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares to man what is his thought, who makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth--LORD, the God of hosts, is his name.

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Cross References

Isaiah 47:3Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.

Ezekiel 22:30And I sought for a man among them who should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it, but I found none.

Amos 2:14And flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, nor shall the mighty deliver himself.

Amos 5:4For thus says LORD to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live.

Matthew 5:25Be agreeing with thine opponent quickly, while thou are with him on the way, lest the opponent deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the subordinate, and thou will be cast into prison.

Mark 13:32But about that day or that hour no man knows, not even the agents in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.

Matthew Henry on Amos 4:7-13

Incorrigibleness of Israel; Judgments Called to Remembrance; Greater Judgments Threatened. ( b. c. 790.) 6 And I also have given you cleanness of teeth in all your cities, and want of bread in all your places: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord . 7 And also I have withholden the rain from you, when there were yet three months to the harvest: and I caused it to rain upon one city, and caused it not to rain upon another city: one piece was rained upon, and the piece whereupon it rained not withered. 8… Read the whole commentary →

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