Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 ye were as a fire-brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned to me, saith the LORD. 12 Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: and because I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. 13 For lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth to man what is his thought, that maketh the morning darkness, and treadeth upon the high places of the earth, The LORD, The God of hosts, is his name.
Cross References
Isaiah 47:3
Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, 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.
Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them, that should make up the hedge, 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 whelps, and will rend the caul 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 force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
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 fish-hooks,
Amos 5:4-15
For thus saith the LORD to the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:
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.
Matthew 5:25
Agree with thy adversary quickly, while thou art in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.
Matthew 24:44-13
Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of man cometh.
Mark 13:32-37
But of that day and that hour knoweth no man, no not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.
Luke 14:31-32
Or what king going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
Luke 21:3-36
And he said, Of a truth I say to you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all.
1 Thessalonians 5:2-4
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
James 4:1-10
From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even from your lusts that war in your members?
Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come on thee as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.