Amos 4:12

"Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel;because I will do this to you,prepare to meet your God, Israel.

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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

11"I have overthrown some of you,as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah,and you were like a burning stick plucked out of the fire;yet you haven't returned to me," says the Lord.

13For, behold, he who forms the mountains,and creates the wind,and declares to man what is his thought;who makes the morning darkness,and treads on the high places of the Earth:The Lord, the God of Hosts, is his name."

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Cross References

Isaiah 47:3Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man."

Ezekiel 22:30"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 2:14Flight will perish from the swift;and the strong won't strengthen his force;neither shall the mighty deliver himself;

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

Matthew 5:25Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.

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