Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Images Amos 4:12
Prayers for Amos 4:12
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Discipline And Israel's Apostasy
11 I overthrew among you as God overthrows Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye shall be as a fire-brand snatched from the burning: and ye turned not back even to me, says Jehovah. 12 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. 13 For behold, he forming the mountains and creating the wind, and announcing to man his meditation, making the morning darkness and treading upon the heights of the earth, Jehovah, God of armies his name
Cross References
Isaiah 47:3
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, also thy reproach shall be seen: I will take vengeance, I will not make peace with man.
Ezekiel 13:5
Ye went not up into the breaches, and ye will wall in the wall upon the house of Israel to stand in the war in the day of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought from them a man to wall in the wall, and to stand in the breach before my face for the land, not to destroy it: and I found not
Hosea 13:8
I will fall upon them as a bear bereaved, and I will rend the enclosure of their heart, and devour them there as a lion: the beast of the field shall cleave them asunder.
Amos 2:14
And flight perished from the swift; and the strong shall not strengthen his power, and the mighty shall not save his soul.
Amos 4:2-3
The Lord Jehovah sware by his holiness, that behold, the days coming upon you and he took you away with hooks, and your last part with thorns of the fish.
Amos 5:4-15
For thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye me and live:
Amos 9:1-4
I saw Jehovah standing upon the altar: and he will say, Strike the crown, and the thresholds shall tremble: and dash them in pieces upon the head of them all; and the last of them I will slay with the sword: the fleeing to them shall not flee, and he escaping to them shall not escape.
Matthew 5:25
Be kindly disposed to thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, lest thy opponent should deliver thee to the judge, and the judge should deliver thee to the assistant, and thou be cast into prison.
Matthew 24:44-13
Therefore be ye also prepared: for what hour ye think not, the Son of man comes.
Mark 13:32-37
And concerning that day and hour none knows, nor the messengers in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Luke 14:31-32
Or what king, going to fight with another king in war, not, having sat down first, consults, if he be able with ten thousand to meet him coming with twenty thousand against him?
Luke 21:3-36
And he said, Truly I say to you, that this poor widow has cast in more than all:
1 Thessalonians 5:2-4
For ye yourselves know accurately that the day of the Lord, as a thief in the night, so comes.
James 4:1-10
Whence wars and fights among you? are they not hence, out of your sensual pleasures making war in your members
Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how thou hast received, and heard, and do thou, and repent. If therefore thou watch not, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I shall come upon thee.