Amos 4:12

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Summary

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

Thus

Amos 4:2

Amos 2:14

Amos 9:1

Prepare

General references

Ezekiel 38:7

Bible References

Thus

My Lord Yahweh has sworn by his holiness that, "Behold, the days are coming upon you {when they} will take you away with hooks, even the last of you with fishing hooks.

Flight will perish from [the] swift and [the] strong person will not muster his strength and [the] warrior will not save his life.

I saw my Lord standing by the altar and he said, "Strike the capitals so that the thresholds will shake, and shatter them on the head of all of them, and I will kill the rest of them with the sword. A fugitive belonging to them will not run away, and a survivor belonging to them will not escape.

Prepare

For thus says Yahweh to the house of Israel, "Seek me so that you may live."

Your nakedness shall be exposed; indeed, your shame shall become visible. I will take vengeance and I will not {spare} a person.

You did not go up into the breaches and repair a wall for the house of Israel to stand [firm] in the battle on the day of Yahweh.

And [so] I sought for them somebody, one repairing [the] wall and standing in the breach {before me} on behalf of the land not to destroy it, but I did not find [anyone],

I will attack them like a bear robbed of her offspring, and I will tear open the covering of their heart; there I will devour them like a lion, like an animal of the field would mutilate them.

{Settle the case quickly with your accuser} while you are with him on the way, lest your accuser hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you be thrown into prison.

For this [reason] you also must be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour that you do not think [he will come].

"Then the kingdom of heaven may be compared to ten virgins who took their lamps [and] went out to meet the bridegroom.

"But concerning that day or hour no one knows--not even the angels in heaven nor the Son--except the Father.

Or what king, going out to engage another king in battle, does not sit down first [and] deliberate whether he is able with ten thousand to oppose the one coming against him with twenty thousand.

And he said, "Truly I say to you that this poor widow put in more than all [of them].

for [you] yourselves well know that the day of the Lord is coming in the [same] way as a thief in the night.

From where [are] conflicts and from where [are] quarrels among you? [Is it] not from this, from your pleasures that wage war among your members?

Therefore remember how you have received and heard, and observe [it], and repent. If therefore you are not on the alert, I will come like a thief, and you will never know [at] what hour I will come against you.

General references

Be ready, and prepare {yourselves}, you and all of your assembly, the assembling around you, and you must be for them as a guard.