Amos 4:12

Because of this, I will do these things to you, Israel. But after I have done these things to you, Israel, be prepared to meet your God.

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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 overturned you, just as God overturned Sodom and Gomorrah, and you became like an ember seized from the fire. And you did not return to me, says the Lord.

13For behold, he who forms the mountains and creates the wind and announces his speech to man, who makes the morning mist and steps over the heights of the earth: the Lord God of hosts is his name.

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Cross References

Isaiah 47:3Your disgrace will be revealed, and your shame will be seen. I will seize vengeance, and no man will withstand me.

Ezekiel 22:30And I sought among them for a man who might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land, so that I might not destroy it; and I found no one.

Amos 2:14And flight will perish from the swift, and the strong will not maintain his strength, and the healthy will not save his life.

Amos 5:4For thus says the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek me and you will live.

Matthew 5:25Be reconciled with your adversary quickly, while you are still on the way with him, lest perhaps the adversary may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you will be thrown in prison.

Mark 13:32But concerning that day or hour, no one knows, neither the Angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only 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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