Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
Amos 4:12 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) *Therefore thus will I do to you, Yisra'el; because I will do this to you, prepare to meet your God, Yisra'el. 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. |
Tremble, you women who are at ease! Be troubled, you careless ones! Strip yourselves, make yourselves naked, and put sackcloth on your waist.
Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yes, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and will spare no man.
as when fire kindles the brushwood, [and] the fire causes the waters to boil; to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
Don't you fear me? says the LORD: won't you tremble at my presence, who have placed the sand for the bound of the sea, by a perpetual decree, that it can't pass it? and though the waves of it toss themselves, yet they can't prevail; though they roar, yet they can't pass over it.
You have not gone up into the gaps, neither built up the wall for the house of Yisra'el, to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
I sought for a man among them, who 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.
I will meet them like a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the covering of their heart. There I will devour them like a lioness. The wild animal will tear them.
Flight will perish from the swift; and the strong won't strengthen his force; neither shall the mighty deliver himself;
Therefore also be ready, for in an hour that you don't expect, the Son of Man will come.
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are with him in the way; lest perhaps the prosecutor deliver you to the judge, and the judge deliver you to the officer, and you be cast into prison.
Remember therefore how you have received and heard. Keep it, and repent. If therefore you won't watch, I will come as a thief, and you won't know what hour I will come upon you.