Parallel Verses
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.
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.
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.
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 overturned among you, Like the overturn by God of Sodom and Gomorrah, And ye are as a brand delivered from a burning, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah. 12 Therefore, thus I do to thee, O Israel, at last, Because this I do to thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. 13 For, lo, the former of mountains, and creator of wind, And the declarer to man what is His thought, He is making dawn obscurity, And is treading on high places of earth, Jehovah, God of Hosts, is His name!
Cross References
Isaiah 47:3
Revealed is thy nakedness, yea, seen is thy reproach, Vengeance I take, and I meet not a man.
Ezekiel 13:5
Ye have not gone up into breaches, Nor do ye make a fence for the house of Israel, To stand in battle in a day of Jehovah.
Ezekiel 22:30
And I seek of them a man making a fence, And standing in the breach before Me, In behalf of the land -- not to destroy it, And I have not found.
Hosea 13:8
I do meet them as a bereaved bear, And I rend the enclosure of their heart.
Amos 2:14
And perished hath refuge from the swift, And the strong strengtheneth not his power, And the mighty delivereth not his soul.
Amos 4:2-3
Sworn hath the Lord Jehovah by His holiness, That lo, days are coming upon you, And he hath taken you away with hooks, And your posterity with fish-hooks.
Amos 5:4-15
For thus said Jehovah to the house of Israel: Seek ye Me, and live,
Amos 9:1-4
I have seen the Lord standing by the altar, and He saith: 'Smite the knob, and the thresholds shake, And cut them off by the head -- all of them, And their posterity with a sword I do slay, Not flee to them doth the fleer, Nor escape to them doth a fugitive.
Matthew 5:25
'Be agreeing with thy opponent quickly, while thou art in the way with him, that the opponent may not deliver thee to the judge, and the judge may deliver thee to the officer, and to prison thou mayest be cast,
Matthew 24:44-13
because of this also ye, become ye ready, because in what hour ye do not think, the Son of Man doth come.
Mark 13:32-37
And concerning that day and the hour no one hath known -- not even the messengers who are in the heaven, not even the Son -- except the Father.
Luke 14:31-32
'Or what king going on to engage with another king in war, doth not, having sat down, first consult if he be able with ten thousand to meet him who with twenty thousand is coming against him?
Luke 21:3-36
and he said, 'Truly I say to you, that this poor widow did cast in more than all;
1 Thessalonians 5:2-4
for yourselves have known thoroughly that the day of the Lord as a thief in the night doth so come,
James 4:1-10
Whence are wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?
Revelation 3:3
'Remember, then, how thou hast received, and heard, and be keeping, and reform: if, then, thou mayest not watch, I will come upon thee as a thief, and thou mayest not know what hour I will come upon thee.