KJV 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.
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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.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
“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!
WEB World English Bible
“Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.
ASV 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.
YLT Young’s 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.
Surrounding context — Amos 4
9 I have smitten you with blasting and mildew: when your gardens and your vineyards and your fig trees and your olive trees increased, the palmerworm devoured [them]: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
10 I have sent among you the pestilence after the manner of Egypt: your young men have I slain with the sword, and have taken away your horses; and I have made the stink of your camps to come up unto your nostrils: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
11 I have overthrown [some] of you, as God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the LORD.
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.
13 For, lo, he that formeth the mountains, and createth the wind, and declareth unto 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.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
לָכֵ֕ןH3651 · kenrightכֹּ֥הH3541 · kohthusאֶעֱשֶׂה־H6213 · a.sahto make: doלְּךָ֖H9031 · kayouיִשְׂרָאֵ֑לH3478 · yis.ra.elIsraelעֵ֚קֶבH6118 · e.qevconsequenceכִּֽי־H3588 · kiforזֹ֣אתH2063 · zotthisאֶֽעֱשֶׂה־H6213 · a.sahto make: doלָּ֔ךְH9032 · khyouהִכּ֥וֹןH3559 · kunto establish: prepareלִקְרַאת־H7122 · qa.rato encounter: meetאֱלֹהֶ֖יךָH430 · e.lo.himGodיִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃H3478 · yis.ra.elIsrael
Cross-references
1 Thessalonians 5:2-4For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.James 4:1-10From whence [come] wars and fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your lusts that war in your members?Amos 9:1-4I 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 13:32-37But of that day and [that] hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels which are in heaven, neither the Son, but the Father.Ezekiel 13:5Ye 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.Amos 5:4-15For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live:Luke 21:3-36And he said, Of a truth I say unto you, that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all:Isaiah 47:3Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet [thee as] a man.Luke 14:31-32Or what king, going to make war against another king, sitteth not down first, and consulteth whether he be able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?Matthew 24:44Therefore be ye also ready: for in such an hour as ye think not the Son of man cometh.Matthew 5:25Agree with thine adversary quickly, whiles 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.Ezekiel 22:30And 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.Amos 4:2-3The 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 fishhooks.Hosea 13:8I 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.Revelation 3:3Remember 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.Amos 2:14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
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