Amos 4:12 KJV — MannaFest

Amos 4:12

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

KJV

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ASV

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

WEB

“Therefore, that is what I will do to you, O Israel, and since I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

YLT

Therefore, thus I do to thee, O Israel, at last, Because this I do to thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

DBT

Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thyGod, O Israel.

About this book

Old Testament

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Amos — A herdsman of Tekoa sent north to Bethel — a shepherd-prophet preaching judgment on a prosperous, comfortable, oppressive society. ‘Let justice roll down.’

Author: Amos, a herdman of Tekoa in Judah, sent to Israel at Bethel (1:1, 7:14)
Date: c. 760–750 BC, during the reigns of Uzziah in Judah and Jeroboam II in Israel

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20 verses on the floor

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 of your lusts that war in your members?
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.
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.
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.

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It is here foretold, in the name of God, that oppressors shall be humbled and idolaters shall be hardened. That proud oppressors shall be humbled for their oppressions: for he that does wrong shall receive according to the wrong that he has done. How their sin is described,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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 (Jer 46:14;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Or, " Thus I will go on to do unto thee, following one judgment with another, like the plagues of Egypt, till I have made a full end." Nothing but reformation will prevent the ruin of a sinful people. If they turn not to him, his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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