Amos 4:12
Good News Translation
"So then, people of Israel, I am going to punish you. And because I am going to do this, get ready to face my judgment!"

New Revised Standard Version
Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

Contemporary English Version
Now, Israel, I myself will deal with you. Get ready to face your God!

New American Bible
Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel: and since I will deal thus with you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!

Douay-Rheims Bible
Therefore 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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Therefore 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.

thus.

Amos 4:2,3 The Lord God hath sworn by his holiness, that lo, the days shall come upon you, when they shall lift you up on pikes, and what shall remain of you in boiling pots. . . .

Amos 2:14 And flight shall perish from the swift, and the valiant shall not possess his strength, neither shall the strong save his life.

Amos 9:1-4 They that swear by the sin of Samaria, and say: Thy God, O Dan, liveth: and the way of Bersabee liveth: and they shall fall, and shall rise no more. . . .

prepare.

Amos 5:4-15 For thus saith the Lord to the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and you shall live. . . .

Isaiah 47:3 Thy nakedness shall be discovered, and thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and no man shall resist me.

Ezekiel 13:5 You have not gone up to face the enemy, nor have you set up a wall for the house of Israel, to stand in battle in the day of the Lord.

Ezekiel 22:30 And I sought among them for a man that might set up a hedge, and stand in the gap before me in favour of the land, that I might not destroy it: and I found none.

Hosea 13:8 I will meet them as a bear that is robbed of her whelps, and I will rend the inner parts of their liver: and I will devour them there as a lion, the beast of the field shall tear them.

Matthew 5:25 Be at agreement with thy adversary betimes, whilst thou art in the way with him: lest perhaps the adversary deliver thee to the judge, and the judge deliver thee to the officer, and thou be cast into prison.

Matthew 24:44-51 Wherefore be you also ready, because at what hour you know not the Son of man will come. . . .

Matthew 25:1-13 Then shall the kingdom of heaven be like to ten virgins, who taking their lamps went out to meet the bridegroom and the bride. . . .

Mark 13:32-37 But of that day or hour no man knoweth, neither the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father. . . .

Luke 14:31,32 Or, what king, about to go to make war against another king, doth not first sit down and think whether he be able, with ten thousand, to meet him that, with twenty thousand, cometh against him? . . .

Luke 21:3-36 And he said: Verily, I say to you that this poor widow hath cast in more than they all. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:2-4 For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord shall so come as a thief in the night. . . .

James 4:1-10 From whence are wars and contentions among you? Are they not hence, from your concupiscences, which war in your members? . . .

Revelation 3:3 Have in mind therefore in what manner thou hast received and heard: and observe and do penance: If then thou shalt not watch, I will come to thee as a thief: and thou shalt not know at what hour I will come to thee.

Context
Punishment Brings No Repentance
11I destroyed some of you, as God destroyed Sodom and Gomorrha, and you were as a firebrand plucked out of the burning: yet you returned not to me, saith the Lord. 12Therefore 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.13For behold he that formeth the mountains and createth the wind, and declareth his word to man, he that maketh the morning mist, and walketh upon the high places of the earth: the Lord the God of hosts is his name.…
Cross References
Isaiah 32:11
Be astonished, ye rich women, be troubled, ye confident ones: strip you, and be confounded, gird your loins.

Isaiah 64:2
They would melt as at the burning of fire, the waters would burn with fire, that thy name might be made known to thy enemies: that the nations might tremble at thy presence.

Jeremiah 5:22
Will not you then fear me, saith the Lord: and will you not repent at my presence? I have set the sand a bound for the sea, an everlasting ordinance, which it shall not pass over: and the waves thereof shall toss themselves, and shall not prevail: they shall swell, and shall not pass over it.

Amos 4:11
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