Tremble, you women that are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones: strip yourselves, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your waists.
Amos 4:12 - King James 2000 Therefore thus will I do unto you, O Israel: and because I will do this unto you, prepare to meet your God, O Israel. 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 that are at ease; be troubled, you complacent ones: strip yourselves, and make yourselves bare, and gird sackcloth upon your waists.
Your nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, your shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not arbitrate with a man.
As when the melting fire burns, the fire causes the waters to boil, to make your name known to your adversaries, that the nations may tremble at your presence!
Fear you not me? says the LORD: will you not tremble at my presence, who has placed the sand for the bound of the sea by a perpetual decree, that it cannot pass it: and though its waves toss themselves, yet can they not prevail; though they roar, yet can they not pass over it?
You have not gone up into the breaches, neither built up the wall for the house of Israel to stand in the battle in the day of the LORD.
And I sought for a man among them, that 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 as a bear that is bereaved of her cubs, and will tear the fat of their heart, and there will I devour them like a lion: the wild beast shall tear them.
Therefore the flight shall perish from the swift, and the strong shall not strengthen his power, neither shall the mighty deliver himself:
Therefore be you also ready: for in such an hour as you think not the Son of man comes.
Agree with your adversary quickly, while you are in the way with him; lest at any time the adversary 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, and hold fast, and repent. If therefore you will not watch, I will come on you as a thief, and you will not know what hour I will come upon you.