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Amos 4:12
12“Therefore here is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel!”
Amos 4:12 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
- New International Version (NIV)“Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel, and because I will do this to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God.”
- English Standard Version (ESV)"Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!"
- New King James Version (NKJV)“Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”
Context of Amos 4:12
10“I sent among you a plague in the manner of Egypt. I slew your young men by the sword, with your chariot-horses in captivity. I made the stench of your camp rise up even to your own nostrils— yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Adonai. 11I overthrew some of you as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah. You became like a firebrand snatched from a blaze— yet you have not returned to Me,” declares Adonai. “Therefore here is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel!” 13For behold! He who forms mountains who creates the wind, who declares His thoughts to man, who makes dawn out of darkness, who walks above the heights of the earth—His Name is Adonai Elohei-Tzva’ot!
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לָכֵ֕ן כֹּ֥ה אֶעֱשֶׂה־לְּךָ֖ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל עֵ֚קֶב כִּֽי־זֹ֣את אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־לָּ֔ךְ הִכּ֥וֹן לִקְרַאת־אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
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Cross-references for Amos 4:12
- Amos 4:2My Lord Adonai has sworn by His holiness: “Behold, days are coming upon you when he will drag you away with meat-hooks, the last of you with fishhooks.
- Amos 2:14Then flight will fail for the swift. The mighty will not strengthen his power, The warrior will not save his life.
- Amos 9:1I saw my Lord standing by the altar, and He said: “Strike the tops of the pillars, so the porches shake! Break all of them off at the head! Then the last of them I will slay with the sword— none of them fleeing will escape and no fugitive will slip away.
- Amos 5:4For thus says Adonai to the house of Israel: “Seek Me, and live!
- Isaiah 47:3Your nakedness will be uncovered, and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance, and will spare no one.
- Ezekiel 13:5You have not gone up into the breaches and repaired the walls for the house of Israel, to stand in the battle in the day of Adonai.
- Ezekiel 22:30I searched for someone among them who would build up the wall and stand in the breach before Me for the land, so that I would not destroy it, but I found no one.
- Hosea 13:8I will meet them like a bear robbed of her cubs, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lioness. A beast of the field will rip them to shreds.
- Matthew 5:25“Make friends quickly with your opponent while you are with him on the way. Otherwise, your opponent may hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the assistant, and you will be thrown into prison.
- Matthew 24:44So you also must be ready, for the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.”
- Matthew 25:1“Then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom.
- Mark 13:32But of that day or hour no one knows, not even the angels in heaven nor the Son, except the Father.
- Luke 14:31“Or what king, going to make war against another king, won’t first sit down to consider whether he is able with ten thousand to confront the one coming against him with twenty thousand?
- Luke 21:3And He said, “Truly I say to you, this poor widow has put in more than all the rest.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2For you yourselves know very well that the Day of the Lord comes like a thief in the night.
- James 4:1Where do quarrels and conflicts among you come from? Don’t they come from this, namely your passions that battle within your body parts?
Commentaries on Amos 4:12
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 12Therefore thus will I do unto thee - I will continue my judgments, I will fight against you; and, because I am thus determined: - Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel - This is a military phrase, and is to be understood as a challenge to come out to battle. As if the Lord had said, I will attack you immediately. Throw yourselves into a posture of defense, summon your idols to your help: and try how far your strength, and that of your gods, will avail you…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 12Therefore thus will I do unto thee - God says more by His silence. He had enumerated successive scourges. Now, with His hand uplifted to strike, He mentions none, but says, “thus.” Rib.: “So men too, loth to name evils, which they fear and detest, say, “God do so to me, and more also.” God using the language of people” Jerome, “having said, thus will I do unto thee,‘ is silent as to what He will do; that so, Israel hanging in suspense, as having before…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 6-13Verses 6-13 See the folly of carnal hearts; they wander from one creature to another, seeking for something to satisfy, and labour for that which satisfies not; yet, after all, they will not incline their ear to Him in whom they might find all they can want. Preaching the gospel is as rain, and every thing withers where this rain is wanting. It were well if people were as wise for their souls as they are for their bodies; and, when they have not this rain…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 12This is one of the two important themes in Amos (the second is Amos 5:24). Since Israel did not repent, it must face God's judgment.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1212. Therefore--as all chastisements have failed to make thee "return unto Me." thus will I do unto thee--as I have threatened (Am 4:2, 3). prepare to meet thy God--God is about to inflict the last and worst judgment on thee, the extinction of thy nationality; consider then what preparation thou canst make for encountering Him as thy foe (Jr 46:14; Lu 14:31, 32). But as that would be madness to think of (Is 27:4; Eze 22:14; He 10:31), see what can be done…Read the comment
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Commentaries on Amos 4
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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