Amos 4:12
What does Amos 4:12 mean?
A plain-English look at Amos 4:12 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So 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.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862Therefore, thus I do to thee, O Israel, at last, Because this I do to thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752Therefore I will do these things to thee, O Israel: and after I shall have done these things to thee, be prepared to meet thy God, O Israel.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thyGod, O Israel.
Context
v.11I have overthrown cities among you, as when God overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and ye were as a brand plucked out of the burning: yet have ye not returned unto me, saith Jehovah.
v.12This passage
v.13For, 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—Jehovah, the God of hosts, is his name.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- James 4:1
Whence comewars and whence come fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your pleasures that war in your members?
- Luke 14:31
Or what king, as he goeth to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him that cometh against him with twenty thousand?
- Revelation 3:3
Remember therefore how thou hast received and didst hear; and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou shalt not watch, I will come as a thief, and thou shalt not know what hour I will come upon thee.
- Ezekiel 22:30
And I sought for a man among them, that should build up the wall, and stand in the gap before me for the land, that I should not destroy it; but I found none.
- 1 Thessalonians 5:2
For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.
- Amos 5:4
For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live;
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