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Prepare to meet your God in judgment, you people of Israel!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/esv/amos/4.htm">English Standard Version</a></span><br />“Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/bsb/amos/4.htm">Berean Standard Bible</a></span><br />“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!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/kjv/amos/4.htm">King James Bible</a></span><br />Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: <i>and</i> because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nkjv/amos/4.htm">New King James Version</a></span><br />“Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb_/amos/4.htm">New American Standard Bible</a></span><br />“Therefore so I will do to you, Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, Israel.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb/amos/4.htm">NASB 1995</a></span><br />&#8220Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.&#8221<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nasb77/amos/4.htm">NASB 1977 </a></span><br />“Therefore, thus I will do to you, O Israel; Because I shall do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsb/amos/4.htm">Legacy Standard Bible </a></span><br />“Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/amp/amos/4.htm">Amplified Bible</a></span><br />“Therefore this is what I shall do to you, O Israel; Because I will do this to you, Prepare to meet your God [in judgment], O Israel!”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/csb/amos/4.htm">Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Therefore, Israel, that is what I will do to you, and since I will do that to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hcsb/amos/4.htm">Holman Christian Standard Bible</a></span><br />Therefore, Israel, that is what I will do to you, and since I will do that to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/asv/amos/4.htm">American Standard Version</a></span><br />Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cev/amos/4.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />Now, Israel, I myself will deal with you. Get ready to face your God! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/erv/amos/4.htm">English Revised Version</a></span><br />Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gwt/amos/4.htm">GOD'S WORD® Translation</a></span><br />This is what I will do to you, Israel. Prepare to meet your God. This is what I will do to you, Israel!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gnt/amos/4.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />"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!" <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/isv/amos/4.htm">International Standard Version</a></span><br />"Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I am about to do this, prepare to be summoned to your God, Israel!"<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/net/amos/4.htm">NET Bible</a></span><br />"Therefore this is what I will do to you, Israel. Because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nheb/amos/4.htm">New Heart English Bible</a></span><br />"Therefore thus will I do to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/wbt/amos/4.htm">Webster's Bible Translation</a></span><br />Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: and because I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.<div class="vheading2"><b>Majority Text Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/msb/amos/4.htm">Majority Standard Bible</a></span><br />“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!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/web/amos/4.htm">World English Bible</a></span><br />“Therefore I will do this to you, Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Israel. <div class="vheading2"><b>Literal Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lsv/amos/4.htm">Literal Standard Version</a></span><br />“Therefore, thus I do to you, O Israel, at last, "" Because this I do to you, "" Prepare to meet your God, O Israel.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/ylt/amos/4.htm">Young's Literal Translation</a></span><br /> Therefore, thus I do to thee, O Israel, at last, Because this I do to thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/slt/amos/4.htm">Smith's Literal Translation</a></span><br />For this, thus will I do to thee, O Israel: because that I will do this to thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.<div class="vheading2"><b>Catholic Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drb/amos/4.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />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. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cpdv/amos/4.htm">Catholic Public Domain Version</a></span><br />Because of this, I will do these things to you, Israel. But after I have done these things to you, Israel, be prepared to meet your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/amos/4.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Therefore thus I will do to you, Israel: and since I will deal thus with you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel! <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/amos/4.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Therefore thus I will do to you, O Israel; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel!<div class="vheading2"><b>Translations from Aramaic</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/lamsa/amos/4.htm">Lamsa Bible</a></span><br />Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel, at the end; and because I will do this to you, prepare, O Israel, that you might call to your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/hpbt/amos/4.htm">Peshitta Holy Bible Translated</a></span><br />Because of these things, in this way shall I do to you Israel; afterward, because I do this to you, be ready, Israel, that you will call to your God<div class="vheading2"><b>OT Translations</b></div><span class="versiontext"><a href="/jps/amos/4.htm">JPS Tanakh 1917</a></span><br />Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; Because I will do this unto thee, Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/sep/amos/4.htm">Brenton Septuagint Translation</a></span><br />Therefore thus will I do to thee, O Israel: nay because I will do thus to thee, prepare to call on thy God, O Israel.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/parallel/amos/4-12.htm">Additional Translations ...</a></span></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><a name="audio" id="audio"></a><div class="vheadingv"><b>Audio Bible</b></div><iframe width="100%" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/u4uh7eMswjw?start=666" title="YouTube video player" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" allowfullscreen></iframe><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/bsb/amos/4.htm">Punishment Brings No Repentance</a></span><br>…<span class="reftext">11</span>“Some of you I overthrew as I overthrew Sodom and Gomorrah, and you were like a firebrand snatched from a blaze, yet you did not return to Me,” declares the LORD. <span class="reftext">12</span><span class="highl"><a href="/hebrew/3651.htm" title="3651: lā·ḵên (Adv) -- So, thus. From kuwn; properly, set upright; hence just; but usually rightly or so.">“Therefore,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3541.htm" title="3541: kōh (Adv) -- Thus, here. From the prefix k and huw'; properly, like this, i.e. By implication, thus; also here; or now.">that is what</a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ’e·‘ĕ·śeh- (V-Qal-Imperf-1cs) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">I will do</a> <a href="/hebrew/lə·ḵā (Prep:: 2ms) -- ">to you,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">O Israel,</a> <a href="/hebrew/6118.htm" title="6118: ‘ê·qeḇ (Conj) -- From aqab in the sense of aqeb; a heel, i.e. the last of anything; also result, i.e. Compensation; and so on account of.">and since</a> <a href="/hebrew/3588.htm" title="3588: kî- (Conj) -- That, for, when. "></a> <a href="/hebrew/6213.htm" title="6213: ’e·‘ĕ·śeh- (V-Qal-Imperf-1cs) -- To do, make. A primitive root; to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application.">I will do</a> <a href="/hebrew/2063.htm" title="2063: zōṯ (Pro-fs) -- Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that. Irregular feminine of zeh; this.">this</a> <a href="/hebrew/lāḵ (Prep:: 2fs) -- ">to you,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3559.htm" title="3559: hik·kō·wn (V-Nifal-Imp-ms) -- A primitive root; properly, to be erect; hence to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal, or figurative.">prepare</a> <a href="/hebrew/7122.htm" title="7122: liq·raṯ- (Prep-l:: V-Qal-Inf) -- To encounter, befall. A primitive root: to encounter, whether accidentally or in a hostile manner.">to meet</a> <a href="/hebrew/430.htm" title="430: ’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā (N-mpc:: 2ms) -- Plural of 'elowahh; gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used of the supreme God">your God,</a> <a href="/hebrew/3478.htm" title="3478: yiś·rā·’êl (N-proper-ms) -- From sarah and 'el; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also of his posterity.">O Israel!</a> </span><span class="reftext">13</span>For behold, He who forms the mountains, who creates the wind and reveals His thoughts to man, who turns the dawn to darkness and strides on the heights of the earth—the LORD, the God of Hosts, is His name.”…<div class="cred"><a href="//berean.bible">Berean Standard Bible</a> · <a href="//berean.bible/downloads.htm">Download</a></div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="crossref" id="crossref"></a><div class="vheading">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="/isaiah/1-18.htm">Isaiah 1:18-20</a></span><br />“Come now, let us reason together,” says the LORD. “Though your sins are like scarlet, they will be as white as snow; though they are as red as crimson, they will become like wool. / If you are willing and obedient, you will eat the best of the land. / But if you resist and rebel, you will be devoured by the sword.” For the mouth of the LORD has spoken.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/jeremiah/18-11.htm">Jeremiah 18:11</a></span><br />Now therefore, tell the men of Judah and the residents of Jerusalem that this is what the LORD says: ‘Behold, I am planning a disaster for you and devising a plan against you. Turn now, each of you, from your evil ways, and correct your ways and deeds.’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/ezekiel/18-30.htm">Ezekiel 18:30-32</a></span><br />Therefore, O house of Israel, I will judge you, each according to his ways, declares the Lord GOD. Repent and turn from all your transgressions, so that your iniquity will not become your downfall. / Cast away from yourselves all the transgressions you have committed, and fashion for yourselves a new heart and a new spirit. Why should you die, O house of Israel? / For I take no pleasure in anyone’s death, declares the Lord GOD. So repent and live!<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/joel/2-12.htm">Joel 2:12-14</a></span><br />“Yet even now,” declares the LORD, “return to Me with all your heart, with fasting, weeping, and mourning.” / So rend your hearts and not your garments, and return to the LORD your God. For He is gracious and compassionate, slow to anger, abounding in loving devotion. And He relents from sending disaster. / Who knows? He may turn and relent and leave a blessing behind Him—grain and drink offerings for the LORD your God.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/hosea/6-1.htm">Hosea 6:1-3</a></span><br />Come, let us return to the LORD. For He has torn us to pieces, but He will heal us; He has wounded us, but He will bind up our wounds. / After two days He will revive us; on the third day He will raise us up, that we may live in His presence. / So let us know—let us press on to know the LORD. As surely as the sun rises, He will appear; He will come to us like the rain, like the spring showers that water the earth.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/zephaniah/2-1.htm">Zephaniah 2:1-3</a></span><br />Gather yourselves, gather together, O shameful nation, / before the decree takes effect and the day passes like chaff, before the burning anger of the LORD comes upon you, before the Day of the LORD’s anger comes upon you. / Seek the LORD, all you humble of the earth who carry out His justice. Seek righteousness; seek humility. Perhaps you will be sheltered on the day of the LORD’s anger.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/malachi/3-7.htm">Malachi 3:7</a></span><br />Yet from the days of your fathers, you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the LORD of Hosts. “But you ask, ‘How can we return?’<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/3-2.htm">Matthew 3:2</a></span><br />and saying, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/matthew/4-17.htm">Matthew 4:17</a></span><br />From that time on Jesus began to preach, “Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/luke/13-3.htm">Luke 13:3-5</a></span><br />No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish. / Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam collapsed on them: Do you think that they were more sinful than all the others living in Jerusalem? / No, I tell you. But unless you repent, you too will all perish.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/3-19.htm">Acts 3:19</a></span><br />Repent, then, and turn back, so that your sins may be wiped away,<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/acts/17-30.htm">Acts 17:30-31</a></span><br />Although God overlooked the ignorance of earlier times, He now commands all people everywhere to repent. / For He has set a day when He will judge the world with justice by the Man He has appointed. He has given proof of this to everyone by raising Him from the dead.”<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/romans/2-4.htm">Romans 2:4-5</a></span><br />Or do you disregard the riches of His kindness, tolerance, and patience, not realizing that God’s kindness leads you to repentance? / But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/5-10.htm">2 Corinthians 5:10</a></span><br />For we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ, that each one may receive his due for the things done in the body, whether good or bad.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="/2_corinthians/6-2.htm">2 Corinthians 6:2</a></span><br />For He says: “In the time of favor I heard you, and in the day of salvation I helped you.” Behold, now is the time of favor; now is the day of salvation!</div><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a name="tsk" id="tsk"><div class="vheading">Treasury of Scripture</div><p class="tsk2">Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel: and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel.</p><p class="hdg">thus.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/amos/4-2.htm">Amos 4:2,3</a></b></br> The 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… </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/amos/2-14.htm">Amos 2:14</a></b></br> Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/amos/9-1.htm">Amos 9:1-4</a></b></br> 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… </p><p class="hdg">prepare.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/amos/5-4.htm">Amos 5:4-15</a></b></br> For thus saith the LORD unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: … </p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/isaiah/47-3.htm">Isaiah 47:3</a></b></br> Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet <i>thee as</i> a man.</p><p class="tskverse"><b><a href="/ezekiel/13-5.htm">Ezekiel 13:5</a></b></br> 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.</p><div class="vheading">Jump to Previous</div><a href="/amos/4-5.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/amos/4-2.htm">Last</a> <a href="/hosea/13-8.htm">Meet</a> <a href="/joel/2-15.htm">Meeting</a> <a href="/joel/3-9.htm">Prepare</a> <a href="/joel/3-13.htm">Ready</a><div class="vheading2">Jump to Next</div><a href="/amos/5-1.htm">Israel</a> <a href="/amos/9-1.htm">Last</a> <a href="/amos/5-19.htm">Meet</a> <a href="/micah/2-5.htm">Meeting</a> <a href="/micah/3-5.htm">Prepare</a> <a href="/jonah/1-17.htm">Ready</a><div class="vheading2">Amos 4</div><span class="reftext">1. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/amos/4-1.htm">He reproves Israel for oppression,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">4. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/amos/4-4.htm">for idolatry,</a></span><br><span class="reftext">6. </span><span class="outlinetext"><a href="/amos/4-6.htm">and for their incorrigibleness.</a></span><br></div></div><div id="mdd"><div align="center"><div class="bot2"><table align="center" width="100%"><tr><td><div align="center"> <script id="3d27ed63fc4348d5b062c4527ae09445"> (new Image()).src = 'https://capi.connatix.com/tr/si?token=51ce25d5-1a8c-424a-8695-4bd48c750f35&cid=3a9f82d0-4344-4f8d-ac0c-e1a0eb43a405'; 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The use of "therefore" indicates a direct consequence of Israel's actions. Historically, this period was marked by social injustice and religious hypocrisy, as Israel enjoyed economic prosperity but neglected covenantal faithfulness. The phrase underscores God's role as a just judge who responds to the moral and spiritual failures of His people.<p><b>and since I will do this to you</b><br>This reiteration emphasizes the certainty and imminence of God's judgment. It reflects the prophetic tradition where warnings are given with the hope of repentance, yet also with the assurance that God's word will be fulfilled. The historical context shows that despite previous warnings and lesser judgments, Israel remained unrepentant, leading to the inevitable fulfillment of God's declared actions.<p><b>prepare to meet your God, O Israel!</b><br>This is a call to readiness, not for a joyful encounter, but for a confrontation with the divine Judge. The phrase "meet your God" implies an unavoidable encounter with the Almighty, who is both Creator and Judge. In the broader biblical narrative, meeting God often involves a theophany or divine appearance, which can be a moment of blessing or judgment. This call to preparation echoes themes found in other prophetic books, such as Joel's call to repentance (<a href="/joel/2-12.htm">Joel 2:12-13</a>) and the New Testament's exhortations to be ready for the return of Christ (<a href="/matthew/24-44.htm">Matthew 24:44</a>). Theologically, it points to the seriousness of sin and the necessity of repentance, while also foreshadowing the ultimate meeting with God through Jesus Christ, who offers redemption and reconciliation.<div class="vheading2">Persons / Places / Events</div>1. <b><a href="/topical/a/amos.htm">Amos</a></b><br>A prophet from Tekoa, a small town in Judah, who was called by God to deliver messages of judgment to the Northern Kingdom of Israel.<br><br>2. <b><a href="/topical/i/israel.htm">Israel</a></b><br>The Northern Kingdom, consisting of ten tribes, which had turned away from God and was facing impending judgment due to its persistent sin and idolatry.<br><br>3. <b><a href="/topical/g/god.htm">God (Yahweh)</a></b><br>The sovereign Lord who is calling Israel to account for their actions and urging them to prepare for a divine encounter.<div class="vheading2">Teaching Points</div><b><a href="/topical/t/the_certainty_of_divine_judgment.htm">The Certainty of Divine Judgment</a></b><br>God's warnings are not idle threats; they are certain and demand a response. Just as Israel was warned, we too must heed God's call to repentance.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_call_to_prepare.htm">The Call to Prepare</a></b><br>Preparation to meet God involves self-examination, repentance, and aligning our lives with His will. This is a daily commitment, not a one-time event.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_nature_of_god's_justice_and_mercy.htm">The Nature of God’s Justice and Mercy</a></b><br>While God is just and will not overlook sin, His warnings are also an act of mercy, giving us the opportunity to turn back to Him before it's too late.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/t/the_importance_of_listening_to_god's_prophets.htm">The Importance of Listening to God’s Prophets</a></b><br>Amos, like other prophets, was sent to guide and warn. We must be attentive to God's messengers today, whether through Scripture, spiritual leaders, or the Holy Spirit.<br><br><b><a href="/topical/l/living_in_light_of_eternity.htm">Living in Light of Eternity</a></b><br>The reality of meeting God should influence our daily decisions and priorities, encouraging us to live with an eternal perspective.<div class="vheading2">Lists and Questions</div><a href="/top10/lessons_from_amos_4.htm">Top 10 Lessons from Amos 4</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/why_stress_about_tomorrow_now.htm">Why did God's vineyard produce only wild grapes?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/what's_the_sermon's_take_on_judgment.htm">What is the sermon's message about divine judgment?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/how_does_hosea_10_15_align_with_god's_mercy.htm">Hosea 10:15: How does the severe punishment described reconcile with portrayals of a merciful God elsewhere in the Bible?</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/q/evidence_of_god's_deeds_known_globally.htm">Isaiah 12:4: Is there any evidence outside of the Bible indicating that the deeds of the God of Israel were widely proclaimed among nations at that time?</a><a name="commentary" id="commentary"></a><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/ellicott/amos/4.htm">Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers</a></div>(12) <span class= "bld">Thus will I do.--</span>What is he about to do? It is left in awful uncertainty, but the doom is wrapt up in the boundless possibilities of the Divine judgment involved in the drawing very near of the Lord Himself, to execute what He has said and sworn by His Holiness in <a href="/context/amos/4-2.htm" title="The Lord GOD has sworn by his holiness, that, see, the days shall come on you, that he will take you away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks.">Amos 4:2-3</a>. All that had previously been done in famine, drought, blighting pestilence, and earthquake, was not final, and had failed in its effect. The summons to meet God in some other unknown form than these is very solemn.<p><div class="vheading2"><a href="/commentaries/pulpit/amos/4.htm">Pulpit Commentary</a></div><span class="cmt_sub_title">Verse 12.</span> - <span class="cmt_word">Therefore</span>. Because all previous judgments have been in vain, therefore will I send upon them something more terrible still. <span class="cmt_word">Thus</span>. God says not how; he leaves the nature of the coming chastisement in mysterious uncertainty, that the very suspense may work fear and repentance. <span class="cmt_word">Because I will do this</span> (pointing back to the mysterious "thus" above) <span class="cmt_word">unto thee;</span> because I am ready to bring on thee still heavier punishment. <span class="cmt_word">Prepare to meet thy God;</span> Septuagint, <span class="greek">Ἐτοιμάζου τοῦ ἐπικαλεῖσθαι</span> <span class="greek">τὸν Θεόν σου</span>, "Prepare to call upon thy God." Make ready to meet thy God in judgment, turning to him with changed heart, if perchance he may forgive thee and withdraw his heavy hand. Another explanation, derived from Symmachus and adopted by a Lapide, Schegg, and others, "Praeparare ut adverseris Deo tuo" - an ironical encouragement to them to withstand God - deprives the following verse of its suitability to the context. For the prophet would hardly invite them to this contest by expatiating upon God's almightiness. <span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="versiontext"><a href="/commentaries/amos/4-12.htm">Parallel Commentaries ...</a></span><span class="p"><br /><br /><br /></span><a name="lexicon" id="lexicon"></a><div class="vheading">Hebrew</div><span class="word">“Therefore,</span><br /><span class="heb">לָכֵ֕ן</span> <span class="translit">(lā·ḵên)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3651.htm">Strong's 3651: </a> </span><span class="str2">So -- thus</span><br /><br /><span class="word">that is what</span><br /><span class="heb">כֹּ֥ה</span> <span class="translit">(kōh)</span><br /><span class="parse">Adverb<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3541.htm">Strong's 3541: </a> </span><span class="str2">Like this, thus, here, now</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I will do</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶעֱשֶׂה־</span> <span class="translit">(’e·‘ĕ·śeh-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to you,</span><br /><span class="heb">לְּךָ֖</span> <span class="translit">(lə·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">O Israel,</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל</span> <span class="translit">(yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><br /><span class="word">and since</span><br /><span class="heb">עֵ֚קֶב</span> <span class="translit">(‘ê·qeḇ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Conjunction<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6118.htm">Strong's 6118: </a> </span><span class="str2">A heel, the last of anything, result, compensation, on account of</span><br /><br /><span class="word">I will do</span><br /><span class="heb">אֶֽעֱשֶׂה־</span> <span class="translit">(’e·‘ĕ·śeh-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Qal - Imperfect - first person common singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_6213.htm">Strong's 6213: </a> </span><span class="str2">To do, make</span><br /><br /><span class="word">this</span><br /><span class="heb">זֹ֣את</span> <span class="translit">(zōṯ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Pronoun - feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_2063.htm">Strong's 2063: </a> </span><span class="str2">Hereby in it, likewise, the one other, same, she, so much, such deed, that, </span><br /><br /><span class="word">to you,</span><br /><span class="heb">לָּ֔ךְ</span> <span class="translit">(lāḵ)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition | second person feminine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/.htm">Strong's Hebrew</a> </span><span class="str2"></span><br /><br /><span class="word">prepare</span><br /><span class="heb">הִכּ֥וֹן</span> <span class="translit">(hik·kō·wn)</span><br /><span class="parse">Verb - Nifal - Imperative - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3559.htm">Strong's 3559: </a> </span><span class="str2">To be erect</span><br /><br /><span class="word">to meet</span><br /><span class="heb">לִקְרַאת־</span> <span class="translit">(liq·raṯ-)</span><br /><span class="parse">Preposition-l | Verb - Qal - Infinitive construct<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_7125.htm">Strong's 7125: </a> </span><span class="str2">Against he come, help, meet, seek, to, in the way </span><br /><br /><span class="word">your God,</span><br /><span class="heb">אֱלֹהֶ֖יךָ</span> <span class="translit">(’ĕ·lō·he·ḵā)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - masculine plural construct | second person masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_430.htm">Strong's 430: </a> </span><span class="str2">gods -- the supreme God, magistrates, a superlative</span><br /><br /><span class="word">O Israel!</span><br /><span class="heb">יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃</span> <span class="translit">(yiś·rā·’êl)</span><br /><span class="parse">Noun - proper - masculine singular<br /></span><span class="str"><a href="/hebrew/strongs_3478.htm">Strong's 3478: </a> </span><span class="str2">Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc</span><br /><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><div class="vheading">Links</div><a href="/niv/amos/4-12.htm">Amos 4:12 NIV</a><br /><a href="/nlt/amos/4-12.htm">Amos 4:12 NLT</a><br /><a href="/esv/amos/4-12.htm">Amos 4:12 ESV</a><br /><a href="/nasb/amos/4-12.htm">Amos 4:12 NASB</a><br /><a href="/kjv/amos/4-12.htm">Amos 4:12 KJV</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="//bibleapps.com/amos/4-12.htm">Amos 4:12 BibleApps.com</a><br /><a href="//bibliaparalela.com/amos/4-12.htm">Amos 4:12 Biblia Paralela</a><br /><a href="//holybible.com.cn/amos/4-12.htm">Amos 4:12 Chinese Bible</a><br /><a href="//saintebible.com/amos/4-12.htm">Amos 4:12 French Bible</a><br /><a href="/catholic/amos/4-12.htm">Amos 4:12 Catholic Bible</a><span class="p"><br /><br /></span><a href="/amos/4-12.htm">OT Prophets: Amos 4:12 Therefore thus will I do to you (Amo. 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