Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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 have overthrown some of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have you not returned unto me, says the LORD. 12 Therefore thus will I do unto you, O Israel: and because I will do this unto you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel. 13 For, lo, he that forms the mountains, and creates the wind, and declares unto man what is his thought, that makes the morning darkness, and treads upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
Cross References
Isaiah 47:3
Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not arbitrate with a man.
Ezekiel 13:5
You have not gone up into the breaches, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them, that 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.
Hosea 13:8
I will meet them as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the fat of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
Amos 2:14
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his power, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
Amos 4:2-3
The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness: Lo, the days shall come upon you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.
Amos 5:4-15
For thus says the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek me, and you shall live:
Amos 9:1-4
I saw the Lord standing upon the altar: and he said, Strike the lintel of the door, that the posts may shake: and break them on the heads of all of them; and I will slay the last of them with the sword: he that flees of them shall not flee away, and he that escapes of them shall not be delivered.
Matthew 5:25
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
Matthew 24:44-13
Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes.
Mark 13:32-37
But of that day and that hour knows no man, no, not the angels who are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Luke 14:31-32
Or what king, going to make war against another king, sits not down first, and consults whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that comes against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 21:3-36
And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow has cast in more than they all:
1 Thessalonians 5:2-4
For you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so comes as a thief in the night.
James 4:1-10
From where come wars and fightings among you? come they not from here, even of your lusts that war in your members?
Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how you have received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you will not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.