Shudder, you complacent ones; tremble, you overconfident ones! Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth round your waists.
Amos 4:12 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised Therefore, Israel, that is what I will do to you, and since I will do that to you, Israel, prepare to meet your God! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Therefore thus will I do to you, O Israel; and because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel! American Standard Version (1901) Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Common English Bible Truly, Israel, I will act in this way toward you; therefore, I will do this to you. Prepare to meet your God, Israel! Catholic Public Domain Version 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. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version 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. |
Shudder, you complacent ones; tremble, you overconfident ones! Strip yourselves bare and put sackcloth round your waists.
Your nakedness will be uncovered, and your disgrace will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.’
just as fire kindles brushwood, and fire boils water – to make your name known to your enemies, so that nations would tremble at your presence!
Do you not fear me? This is the Lord’s declaration. Do you not tremble before me, the one who set the sand as the boundary of the sea, an enduring barrier that it cannot cross? The waves surge, but they cannot prevail. They roar, but cannot pass over it.
You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall round the house of Israel so that it might stand in battle on the day of the Lord.
I searched for a man among them who would repair the wall and stand in the gap before me on behalf of the land so that I might not destroy it, but I found no one.
I will attack them like a bear robbed of her cubs and tear open the rib cage over their hearts. I will devour them there like a lioness, like a wild beast that would rip them open.
Escape will fail the swift, the strong one will not maintain his strength, and the warrior will not save his life.
This is why you are also to be ready, because the Son of Man is coming at an hour you do not expect.
Reach a settlement quickly with your adversary while you’re on the way with him to the court, or your adversary will hand you over to the judge, and the judge to the officer, and you will be thrown into prison.
Remember, then, what you have received and heard; keep it, and repent. If you are not alert, I will come like a thief, and you have no idea at what hour I will come upon you.