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Amos 4

Amos 4:12 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore thus will I do
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
unto thee, O Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
: and because
`eqeb (Hebrew #6118)
a heel, i.e. (figuratively) the last of anything (used adverbially, for ever); also result, i.e. compensation; and so (adverb with preposition or relatively) on account of
KJV usage: X because, by, end, for, if, reward.
Pronounce: ay'-keb
Origin: from 6117 in the sense of 6119
I will do
`asah (Hebrew #6213)
to do or make, in the broadest sense and widest application (as follows)
KJV usage: accomplish, advance, appoint, apt, be at, become, bear, bestow, bring forth, bruise, be busy, X certainly, have the charge of, commit, deal (with), deck, + displease, do, (ready) dress(-ed), (put in) execute(-ion), exercise, fashion, + feast, (fight-)ing man, + finish, fit, fly, follow, fulfill, furnish, gather, get, go about, govern, grant, great, + hinder, hold ((a feast)), X indeed, + be industrious, + journey, keep, labour, maintain, make, be meet, observe, be occupied, offer, + officer, pare, bring (come) to pass, perform, pracise, prepare, procure, provide, put, requite, X sacrifice, serve, set, shew, X sin, spend, X surely, take, X thoroughly, trim, X very, + vex, be (warr-)ior, work(-man), yield, use.
Pronounce: aw-saw'
Origin: a primitive root
this unto thee, prepare
kuwn (Hebrew #3559)
properly, to be erect (i.e. stand perpendicular); hence (causatively) to set up, in a great variety of applications, whether literal (establish, fix, prepare, apply), or figurative (appoint, render sure, proper or prosperous)
KJV usage: certain(-ty), confirm, direct, faithfulness, fashion, fasten, firm, be fitted, be fixed, frame, be meet, ordain, order, perfect, (make) preparation, prepare (self), provide, make provision, (be, make) ready, right, set (aright, fast, forth), be stable, (e-)stablish, stand, tarry, X very deed.
Pronounce: koon
Origin: a primitive root
p to meet
qir'ah (Hebrew #7125)
an encountering, accidental, friendly or hostile (also adverbially, opposite)
KJV usage: X against (he come), help, meet, seek, X to, X in the way.
Pronounce: keer-aw'
Origin: from 7122
thy God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
, O Israel
Yisra'el (Hebrew #3478)
from 8280 and 410; he will rule as God; Jisrael, a symbolical name of Jacob; also (typically) of his posterity: --Israel.
Pronounce: yis-raw-ale'
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Ezek. 13:5• 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 Jehovah. (Ezek. 13:5)
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Matt. 25:13• 13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour. (Matt. 25:13)

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Amos 4:2‑3• 2The Lord Jehovah 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.
 3And ye shall go out at the breaches, every cow at that which is before her; and ye shall cast them into the palace, saith Jehovah. (Amos 4:2‑3)
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Amos 2:14• 14Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his force, neither shall the mighty deliver himself: (Amos 2:14)
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Amos 9:1‑4• 1{i}I saw the Lord standing upon the altar;{/i} 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.
 2{i}Though they dig into Sheol, thence shall my hand take them; and though they climb up to the heavens, thence will I bring them down;{/i}
 3{i}and though they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, I will search and take them out thence; and though they be hid from my sight in the bottom of the sea, there will I command the serpent, and it shall bite them;{/i}
 4{i}and though they go into captivity before their enemies, there will I command the sword, and it shall slay them: and I will set mine eyes upon them for evil, and not for good.{/i} (Amos 9:1‑4)
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Amos 5:4‑15• 4{i}For thus saith Jehovah unto the house of Israel: Seek ye me, and ye shall live.{/i}
 5{i}And seek not Bethel, neither go to Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba;{/i} for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought.
 6Seek Jehovah, and live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel.
 7Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth.
 8Seek him that maketh the seven stars and Orion, and turneth the shadow of death into the morning, and maketh the day dark with night; that calleth for the waters of the sea, and poureth them out upon the face of the earth: Jehovah is his name:
 9that strengtheneth the spoiled against the strong, so that the spoiled shall come against the fortress.
 10They hate him that rebuketh in the gate, and they abhor him that speaketh uprightly.
 11Forasmuch therefore as your treading is upon the poor, and ye take from him burdens of wheat: ye have built houses of hewn stone, but ye shall not dwell in them; ye have planted pleasant vineyards, but ye shall not drink wine of them.
 12For I know your manifold transgressions and your mighty sins: they afflict the just, they take a bribe, and they turn aside the poor in the gate from their right.
 13Therefore the prudent shall keep silence in that time; for it is an evil time.
 14Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so Jehovah, the God of hosts, shall be with you as ye have spoken.
 15Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that Jehovah the God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. (Amos 5:4‑15)
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Isa. 47:3• 3Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen. I will take vengeance, and I will meet no man. (Isa. 47:3)
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Ezek. 13:5• 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 Jehovah. (Ezek. 13:5)
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Ezek. 22:30• 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. (Ezek. 22:30)
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Hos. 13:8• 8{i}I will meet them as a bear bereaved of her whelps , and will rend the covering of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lioness: the beast of the field shall tear them.{/i} (Hos. 13:8)
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Matt. 5:25• 25Make friends with thine adversary quickly, whilst 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 official, and thou be cast into prison. (Matt. 5:25)
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Matt. 24:44‑51• 44Therefore, be ye also ready, for in an hour that ye think not the Son of man cometh.
 45Who then is the faithful and prudent bondman whom his lord set over his household, to give them their food in due season?
 46Blessed [is] that bondman whom his lord on coming shall find so doing.
 47Verily I say to you, that he will set him over all that he hath.
 48But if that evil bondman shall say in his heart, My lord tarrieth;
 49and shall begin to beat his fellow-bondmen, and shall eat and drink with the drunken,
 50the lord of that bondman shall come in a day when he expecteth not, and in an hour that he knoweth not,
 51and shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth. (Matt. 24:44‑51)
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Matt. 25:1‑13• 1Then shall the kingdom of the heavens be likened to ten virgins, the which took their torches and went forth to meet the bridegroom.
 2And five of them were foolish, and five were prudent.
 3For the foolish took their torches and took no oil with them;
 4but the prudent took oil in their vessels with their torches.
 5Now, the bridegroom tarrying, they all slumbered and slept.
 6But at midnight a cry was made, Behold, the bridegroom! go ye forth to meet him.
 7Then all those virgins arose and trimmed their torches.
 8And the foolish said to the prudent, Give us of your oil; for our torches are going out.
 9But the prudent answered, saying, Peradventure there be not enough for us and you. Go rather to those that sell, and buy for yourselves.
 10And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came; and those ready went in with him to the marriage-feast; and the door was shut.
 11Afterward came also the rest of the virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
 12But he answering, said, Verily I know you not.
 13Watch therefore, for ye know neither the day nor the hour. (Matt. 25:1‑13)
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Mark 13:32‑37• 32But of that day or of that hour knoweth no one, neither the angels who are in heaven, nor the Son, but the Father.
 33Take heed, watch and pray, {i}for ye do not know when the time is:{/i}
 34[it is] as a man gone out of the country who left his house and gave authority to his bondmen, {i}and{/i} to each his work, {i}and commanded the doorkeeper that he should watch.{/i}
 35Watch, therefore; for ye know not when the master of the house cometh: even, or midnight, or cock-crowing, or in morning;
 36lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping.
 37But what I say unto you I say unto all, Watch. (Mark 13:32‑37)
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Luke 14:31‑32• 31{i}Or what king, going on his way to engage in war with another king, does not, sitting down first, take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him coming against him with twenty thousand?{/i}
 32{i}and if not, while he is yet far off, having sent an embassy, he asks for terms of peace.{/i} (Luke 14:31‑32)
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Luke 21:3‑36• 3And he said, Verily I say unto you, that this poor woman hath cast in more than all;
 4for all these out of their abundance have cast into the gifts, but she out of her need hath cast in all the living which she had.
 5And as some spoke of the temple that it was adorned with goodly stones and consecrated offerings, he said,
 6[As for] these things which ye are beholding, days are coming in which stone shall not be left upon stone which shall not be thrown down.
 7And they asked him saying, Teacher, when then shall these things be? and what [is] the sign when these things are going to take place?
 8And he said, See that ye be not misled. For many shall come in my name, saying, I am [he]; and the time is drawn nigh: go ye not after them.
 9And when ye shall hear of wars and tumults be not terrified; for these things must first take place, but the end [is] not immediately.
 10Then said he to them, Nation shall rise up against nation, and kingdom against kingdom:
 11there shall be both great earthquakes in different places and pestilences and famines, and there shall be fearful sights and great signs from heaven.
 12But before all these things they shall lay their hands upon you and persecute you, delivering up to synagogues and prisons, bringing before kings and governors on account of my name;
 13but it shall turn out to you for a testimony.
 14Settle therefore in your hearts not to meditate beforehand [your] defence;
 15for I will give you a mouth and wisdom, which all your adversaries shall not be able to resist or reply unto.
 16Moreover ye will be delivered up even by parents and brethren and relations and friends, and they shall put to death [some] from among you,
 17and ye will be hated by all on account of my name;
 18and a hair of your head shall in no wise perish.
 19By your patient endurance gain your souls.
 20But when ye see Jerusalem encompassed with armies, then know that its desolation is drawn nigh.
 21Then let those who are in Judea flee unto the mountains, and those in the midst of it depart out, and those in the fields not enter into it.
 22For these are days of vengeance, that all the things written may be accomplished.
 23Woe to them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days; for there shall be great distress upon the land and wrath upon this people.
 24And they shall fall by the edge of the sword and be led captive into all the nations; and Jerusalem shall be trodden down by [the] nations until [the] times of [the] nations be fulfilled.
 25And there shall be signs in sun and moon and stars, and upon the earth distress of nations in perplexity, for at the roar of the sea and rolling waves,
 26men ready to die through fear and expectation of the things coming on the habitable earth; for the powers of the heavens shall be shaken.
 27And then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory.
 28But when these things begin to come to pass, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draweth nigh.
 29And he spoke a parable to them, Behold the fig-tree and all the trees:
 30when they already sprout, by looking ye know of your own selves that already summer is near.
 31So also ye, when ye see these things take place, know that the kingdom of God is near.
 32Verily I say unto you that this generation shall in no wise pass away until all come to pass.
 33The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall in no wise pass away.
 34But take heed to yourselves lest possibly your hearts be weighed down with surfeiting and drunkenness and cares of life, and that day come upon you suddenly unawares,
 35for as a snare it will come upon all that are settled down upon the face of the whole earth.
 36But watch, at every season praying that ye may be deemed worthy to escape all these things that are about to come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man. (Luke 21:3‑36)
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1 Thess. 5:2‑4• 2For yourselves know thoroughly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief at night.
 3When they are saying peace and safety, then sudden destruction cometh on them as the pain on her that is with child; and they shall in no wise escape.
 4But ye, brethren, are not in darkness, that the day should overtake you as a thief; (1 Thess. 5:2‑4)
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James 4:1‑10• 1Whence [are] wars and whence fightings among you? [Are they] not hence, from your pleasures that combat in your members?
 2Ye lust and have not; ye kill and are jealous, and cannot obtain; ye fight and war; ye have not because ye ask not;
 3ye ask and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
 4Adulteresses, know ye not that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Whosoever therefore shall be minded to be friend of the world is constituted enemy of God.
 5Or think ye that the scripture saith in vain? Doth the Spirit that took his dwelling in us long unto envy?
 6But he giveth more grace; wherefore he saith, God setteth himself against haughty [men], but giveth grace to lowly.
 7Submit yourselves therefore to God. Resist the devil, and he will flee from you.
 8Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse hands, sinners, and purify hearts, ye double-minded.
 9Sorrow, and mourn, and weep; let your laughter be turned unto mourning, and [your] joy unto heaviness.
 10Humble yourselves before [the] Lord, and he will exalt you. (James 4:1‑10)
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Rev. 3:3• 3Remember therefore how thou hast received and heard; and keep it, and repent. If therefore thou watch not, I will come [upon thee] as a thief, and thou shalt in no wise know what hour I will come upon thee. (Rev. 3:3)
• It is the strange habit of some to apply this text to a soul which is under the hand of the Lord when brought to believe the gospel; but it is evidently a threat of final judgment. Fully as we may desire to own the exceeding breadth of the divine word, we should not blunt the keenness of its edge in this way. (“Amos 4” by W. Kelly)

J. N. Darby Translation

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

W. Kelly Translation

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