Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore, thus, will I do unto thee, O Israel, - Because this thing I will do unto thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
New American Standard Bible
Because I will do this to you,
Prepare to
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.
Holman Bible
and since I will do that to you,
Israel, prepare to meet your God!
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!"
A Conservative Version
Therefore thus I will do to thee, O Israel, [and] because I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
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.
Amplified
“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!”
Bible in Basic English
So this is what I will do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, be ready for a meeting with your God, O Israel.
Darby Translation
Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
Julia Smith Translation
For this, thus will I do to thee, O Israel: because that I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
King James 2000
Therefore thus will I do unto you, O Israel: and because I will do this unto you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.
Lexham Expanded Bible
"Therefore, thus I will do to you, Israel. Because I will do this to you, O Israel, prepare to meet your God!
Modern King James verseion
So I will do this to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
'Therefore thus will I handle thee again, O Israel: yea, even thus will I handle thee. Make thee ready then to meet thy 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 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
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 thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
Youngs 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.
Interlinear
Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 4:12
Prayers for Amos 4:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Discipline And Israel's Apostasy
11 I have made an overthrew among you, like the divine overthrow of Sodom arid Gomorrah, and ye have become like a brand snatched out of the burning, - Yet hate ye not returned unto me, Declareth Yahweh. 12 Therefore, thus, will I do unto thee, O Israel, - Because this thing I will do unto thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. 13 For lo! He that fashioned the mountains, and created the wind, and who telleth the son of earth what is his thought, who turneth dawn into darkness, and marcheth upon the high places of the earth, Yahweh, God of hosts, is his name!
Cross References
Isaiah 47:3
Bared shall be thy shame, Yea seen thy reproach, - An avenging, will I take, And will accept no son of earth.
Ezekiel 13:5
Ye have not gone up into the breaches, Nor but a wall about the house of Israel,- to stand in the battle in the day of Yahweh. s
Ezekiel 22:30
Then sought I from among them, a man Who could bud up a wall And stand in the breach before me in behalf of the land So that I might not destroy her, - But I found none.
Hosea 13:8
I will fall upon them as a bear bereaved, and will read asunder the enclosure of their heart, - that I may devour them there, like a lioness, the wild beast of the field, shall tear them in pieces.
Amos 2:14
Therefore shall flight, perish, from the swift, and, the mighty, shall not invigorate his strength, - nor shall, the hero, escape with his life;
Amos 4:2-3
Sworn hath My Lord, Yahweh, by his own holiness, That lo! days, are coming upon you, - when he will take you away with hooks, and your followers with fishhooks;
Amos 5:4-15
For, thus, saith Yahweh, to the house of Israel, - Seek me, and live;
Amos 9:1-4
I saw My Lord stationed by the altar, and he said - Smite the capital - that the sills, may tremble, Yea break them off on the head of them all, and, the last of them, with the sword, will I slay, - He that fleeth of them, shall not flee away, and he that escapeth of them, shall not make good his escape.
Matthew 5:25
Be making agreement with thine adversary, quickly, while thou art with him, in the way, - lest once thine adversary deliver thee up unto the judge, and the judge, unto the officer, and, into prison, thou be cast.
Matthew 24:44-13
Wherefore, ye also, be getting ready, because, in what hour ye are, not thinking, The Son of Man doth come.
Mark 13:32-37
But, concerning that day or hour, no one, knoweth, neither the messengers in heaven, nor the Son, - save the Father.
Luke 14:31-32
Or, what king, moving on to encounter, another king, in battle, will not sit down first and take counsel, whether he is able, with ten thousand, to meet him who, with twenty thousand, is coming against him.
Luke 21:3-36
and he said - Of a truth, I say unto you - This destitute widow, more than they all, hath cast in;
1 Thessalonians 5:2-4
For, ye yourselves, perfectly well know - that, the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so, cometh;
James 4:1-10
Whence wars and whence fightings among you? are they not from hence - due to your pleasures which are taking the field in your members?
Revelation 3:3
Remember, therefore, how thou hast received, and didst hear, and keep it and repent. If then thou shall not watch, I will have come as a thief, and in nowise shalt thou get to know, during what sort of hour, I will have come upon thee.