Amos 4:12

Therefore I will do something terrible to you, Israel; 1 and because I will do something terrible to you, 1 prepare to meet your God, Israel! 1

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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 overthrew cities among you, 1 as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. 1 You were like a burning stick snatched out of the fire. 1 Yet you have not returned to me 1 —this is Yahweh's declaration. 1

13For, look, he who forms the mountains 1 also creates the wind, 1 reveals his thoughts to mankind, 1 makes the morning darkness, 1 and treads on the high places of the earth. 1 Yahweh, God of hosts, is his name.”

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Cross References

Isaiah 47:3Your nakedness will be uncovered, yes, your shame will be seen: 1 I will take vengeance and will not spare a man. 1

Ezekiel 22:30So I searched for a man from them who would build up a wall and who would stand before me in its breach for the land so I would not destroy it, but I found no one.

Amos 2:14The swift will find no escape; 1 the strong will not add to his own strength; 1 neither will the mighty save himself. 1

Amos 5:4For this is what Yahweh says to the house of Israel: 1 “Seek me and live! 1

Matthew 5:25Agree with your accuser quickly while you are with him on the way to court, or your accuser may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.

Mark 13:32But concerning that day or that hour, no one knows, not even the angels 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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