Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version “Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.” New Living Translation “Therefore, I will bring upon you all the disasters I have announced. Prepare to meet your God in judgment, you people of Israel!” English Standard Version “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!” Berean Standard Bible “Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel! King James Bible Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. New King James Version “Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!” New American Standard Bible “Therefore so I will do to you, Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, Israel.” NASB 1995 “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.” NASB 1977 “Therefore, thus I will do to you, O Israel; Because I shall do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.” Legacy Standard Bible “Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.” Amplified Bible “Therefore this is what I shall do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God [in judgment], O Israel!” Christian Standard Bible Therefore, Israel, that is what I will do to you, and since I will do that to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God! Holman Christian Standard Bible Therefore, Israel, that is what I will do to you, and since I will do that to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God! American Standard 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. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Because of these things, in this way shall I do to you Israel; afterward, because I do this to you, be ready, Israel, that you will call to your God Brenton Septuagint Translation Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to thee, prepare to call on thy God, O Israel. Contemporary English Version Now, Israel, I myself will deal with you. Get ready to face your God! Douay-Rheims Bible Therefore I will do these things to thee, O Israel: and after I shall have done these things to thee, be prepared to meet thy God, O Israel. English Revised 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. GOD'S WORD® Translation This is what I will do to you, Israel. Prepare to meet your God. This is what I will do to you, Israel! Good News Translation "So then, people of Israel, I am going to punish you. And because I am going to do this, get ready to face my judgment!" International Standard Version "Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I am about to do this, prepare to be summoned to your God, Israel!" JPS Tanakh 1917 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; Because I will do this unto thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Literal Standard Version “Therefore, thus I do to you, O Israel, at last, | Because this I do to you, | Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.” Majority Standard Bible “Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel! New American Bible Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel: and since I will deal thus with you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel! NET Bible "Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel! New Revised Standard Version Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel! New Heart English Bible "Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel. Webster's Bible Translation Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: and because I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. World English Bible “Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel. Young's Literal Translation Therefore, thus I do to thee, O Israel, at last, Because this I do to thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context Punishment Brings No Repentance…11“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. 12“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel! 13For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”… Cross References Isaiah 32:11 Shudder, you ladies of leisure; tremble, you daughters of complacency. Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth around your waists. Isaiah 64:2 as fire kindles the brushwood and causes the water to boil, to make Your name known to Your enemies, so that the nations will tremble at Your presence! Jeremiah 5:22 Do you not fear Me?" declares the LORD. "Do you not tremble before Me, the One who set the sand as the boundary for the sea, an enduring barrier it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar but cannot cross it. Treasury of Scripture Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel. thus. Amos 4:2,3 The Lord GOD hath sworn by his holiness, that, lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks… Amos 2:14 Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: Amos 9:1-4 I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Smite the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and cut them in the head, all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that fleeth of them shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them shall not be delivered… prepare. Amos 5:4-15 For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: … Isaiah 47:3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man. Ezekiel 13:5 Ye have not gone up into the gaps, neither made up the hedge for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD. Jump to Previous Israel Last Meet Meeting Prepare ReadyJump to Next Israel Last Meet Meeting Prepare ReadyAmos 4 1. He reproves Israel for oppression,4. for idolatry, 6. and for their incorrigibleness. (12) Thus will I do.--What is he about to do? It is left in awful uncertainty, but the doom is wrapt up in the boundless possibilities of the Divine judgment involved in the drawing very near of the Lord Himself, to execute what He has said and sworn by His Holiness in Amos 4:2-3. All that had previously been done in famine, drought, blighting pestilence, and earthquake, was not final, and had failed in its effect. The summons to meet God in some other unknown form than these is very solemn.Verse 12. - Therefore. Because all previous judgments have been in vain, therefore will I send upon them something more terrible still. Thus. God says not how; he leaves the nature of the coming chastisement in mysterious uncertainty, that the very suspense may work fear and repentance. Because I will do this (pointing back to the mysterious "thus" above) unto thee; because I am ready to bring on thee still heavier punishment. Prepare to meet thy God; Septuagint, Ἐτοιμά Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew “Therefore,לָכֵ֕ן (lā·ḵên) Adverb Strong's 3651: So -- thus that is what כֹּ֥ה (kōh) Adverb Strong's 3541: Like this, thus, here, now I will do אֶעֱשֶׂה־ (’e·‘ĕ·śeh-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 6213: To do, make to you, לְּךָ֖ (lə·ḵā) Preposition | second person masculine singular Strong's Hebrew O Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc and since עֵ֚קֶב (‘ê·qeḇ) Conjunction Strong's 6118: A heel, the last of anything, result, compensation, on account of I will do אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־ (’e·‘ĕ·śeh-) Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular Strong's 6213: To do, make this זֹ֣את (zōṯ) Pronoun - feminine singular Strong's 2063: Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that, to you, לָּ֔ךְ (lāḵ) Preposition | second person feminine singular Strong's Hebrew prepare הִכּ֥וֹן (hik·kō·wn) Verb - Nifal - Imperative - masculine singular Strong's 3559: To be erect to meet לִקְרַאת־ (liq·raṯ-) Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct Strong's 7125: Against he come, help, meet, seek, to, in the way your God, אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ (’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā) Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular Strong's 430: gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative O Israel! יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc Links Amos 4:12 NIVAmos 4:12 NLT Amos 4:12 ESV Amos 4:12 NASB Amos 4:12 KJV Amos 4:12 BibleApps.com Amos 4:12 Biblia Paralela Amos 4:12 Chinese Bible Amos 4:12 French Bible Amos 4:12 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Amos 4:12 Therefore thus will I do to you (Amo. 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