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Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Amos 4:12

Thus will I do. — 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 Amos 4:2. 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.

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See also Amos 4:12 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 4:12. _THEREFORE THUS WILL I DO UNTO THEE_] I will continue my judgments, I will fight against you; and, because I am thus determined,- _PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD, O ISRAEL._] This is a mil...

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    THEREFORE THUS WILL I DO UNTO THEE - God says more by His silence. He had enumerated successive scourges. Now, with His hand uplifted to strike, He mentions none, but says, “thus.” Rib.: “So men too,...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 4 The Second Discourse _ 1. Divine threatening and irony (Amos 4:1) _ 2. Yet have ye not returned unto Me (Amos 4:6) 3. Prepare to meet thy God (Amos 4:12)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    ISRAEL'S DENSENESS. What is the real cause of conduct that merits such punishment? At the root of all the evil is a sham religion, a religion which in its mere formality and gross corruption has degen...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    PREPARE TO MEET, &c. i.e. in judgment. Compare Ezekiel 13:5; Ezekiel 22:30; Amos 4:11 and Amos 4:12 are not "out of place" or an "interpolation", but are r

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The sentence. All warnings have passed unheeded: no amendment is visible in the people; Jehovah must therefore proceed now to still more extreme measures. What these measures are, however, is not expl...

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    Here the people at large are addressed by the prophet, perhaps at some festal religious gathering....

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD -- AMOS 4:12-13:_ One of the most sobering statements in the Bible is "Prepare to meet thy God." After continual rejection God told Israel to "Get ready to face your God!" Thi...

  • Charles Simeon's Horae Homileticae

    DISCOURSE: 1189 INCORRIGIBLENESS REPROVED Amos 4:11. _Yet have ye not returned unto me, saith the Lord. Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    THEREFORE THUS WILL I DO UNTO THEE, &C.— _But now what shall I do unto thee, O Israel, after I have done these things? Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel!_ Amos 4:13. _For lo, he is at hand, who formet...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    REVELATION CALLS FOR REPENTANCEGOD'S CHARACTER AND WILL REVEALED TEXT: Amos 4:12-13 12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel; and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. THEREFORE - as all chastizements have failed to make thee "return unto me....

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THUS] but we are not told how. Imagination is to fill up the blank, and the partial overthrow already inflicted is enough to indicate what the final and total ruin will be. They must MEET God as a foe...

  • Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

    THE SECOND ADDRESS 1-3. The heartless luxury of the rich women. 4, 5. The elaborate sacrifices and pilgrimages. 6-12. The failure of God's chastisements to produce amendment. 1. These pampered wome...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 4 THE WOMEN WHO LOVE LUXURY V1 Listen to this, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mountains of Samaria. You hurt poor...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    לָכֵ֕ן כֹּ֥ה אֶעֱשֶׂה ־לְּךָ֖ יִשְׂרָאֵ֑ל עֵ֚קֶב...

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    1. FOR WORSHIP, CHASTISEMENT Amos 4:4 In chapter 2 Amos contrasted the popular conception of religion as worship with God's-conception of it as history. He placed a picture of the sanctuary, hot with...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    “PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD” Amos 4:12-13; Amos 5:1-15 Worse judgments than those mentioned in the previous verses were in store but before they are inflicted, the entire nation is summoned to the divin...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The second discourse consists of Jehovah's summons to the people. It commences with a severe and terrible indictment of the women. He addressed them as "Ye kine of Bashan," which reveals the degradati...

  • Geneva Study Bible Commentary

    Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare to (n) meet thy God, O Israel. (n) Turn to him by repentance....

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _These. He mentions not what, to keep them in greater suspense and dread; (St. Jerome) or he will put in execution what he had threatened before, ver. 2. --- Meet. Septuagint, "beseech." Aquila, "oppo...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    Here we have an account of the Lord's sore judgments upon Israel; by famine, by withholding the fruits of the earth, and by marking his judgments in a distinguishing manner, causing it to rain upon on...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...

  • James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary

    _‘PREPARATION TO MEET GOD’_ ‘Prepare to meet thy God!’ Amos 4:12 That man has still to learn the real lesson of life, who has not yet been taught to read it, in all its Chapter s of joy and sorrow,...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    Amos here declares, in the person of God, that the people in vain hoped for pardon, or for a modification, or an abatement, or an end to their punishment; for God had in vain made the attempt, by many...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 4 presents the oppression of the poor, and the worship which the children of Israel rendered at will in the places they had chosen. God also would act as He saw fit. He had indeed already done...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    THEREFORE THUS WILL I DO UNTO THEE, O ISRAEL,.... What he would do is not expressly and particularly said; it is commonly understood to be something in a way of judgment, and worse than what he had do...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: [and] because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel. Ver. 12. _Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel_] Thus? how? _Non nomin...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _Therefore thus will I do unto thee_ I will continue to send these several judgments upon thee till I entirely destroy thee. _And because_, or, _forasmuch, as I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    Therefore, thus will I do unto thee, O Israel, namely, what He now says in conclusion; AND BECAUSE I WILL DO THIS UNTO THEE, PREPARE TO MEET THY GOD, O ISRAEL, namely, to stand before the Lord's judgm...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    VARIOUS PUNISHMENTS LEADING UP TO THE LAST JUDGMENT...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    6-13 See the folly of carnal hearts; they wander from one creature to another, seeking for something to satisfy, and labour for that which satisfies not; yet, after all, they will not incline their e...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    THEREFORE, because none of my former methods have succeeded, as in reason might have been expected, THUS WILL I DO UNTO THEE, in some more terrible manner will I now proceed against thee, O Israel; yo...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 4:12 do H6213 (H8799) Israel H3478 Because H6118 do H6213 (H8799) Prepare H3559 (H8734) meet...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    HAVING FAILED TO RESPOND TO ALL GOD'S PLEADINGS BY JUDGMENT THERE COULD ONLY BE ONE INEVITABLE END. LIKE PHARAOH BEFORE THEM THEY WOULD HAVE TO FIND OUT THE SEVERITY OF HIS JUDGMENT WHEN ALL ELSE HAD...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    TWO INDICTMENTS OF THE PEOPLE WHICH WILL RESULT IN A SERIES OF CHASTISEMENTS (AMOS 4:1). A new oracle now begins with the words ‘hear this word ---' (compare Amos 3:1; Amos 5:1) and consists of indict...

  • Sermon Bible Commentary

    Amos 4:12 Prepare to meet thy God, O Israel" _i.e._prepare thyself, if penitent, to meet Him with supplications, prayers, and tears; but if still hardened and impenitent, to encounter His just vengean...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: Threatening against the oppressors in Israel. Israel reminded of God's chastening in the past. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: God designs all His providential rebukes to influence men to tur...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Amos 4:1. _Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan._ The strong bulls of Bashan are celebrated in scripture. Psalms 22:13. _Vaccæ pingues,_ fat cows, haughty women, abandoned to luxurious ease, and who, equ...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Prepare to meet thy God._ PREPARATION FOR JUDGMENT We will endeavour to enforce the exhortation of the text in a series of arguments, illustrating the reasons why due obedience and attention should...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 4:1 This second oracle (see note on 2:6–6:14) is composed of three parts. In Amos 4:1, Amos expands somewhat on the points made in...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    THREATENED EVIL ESCAPED BY RETURN TO GOD.—_Amos 4:12_ “When he has said, ‘This will I do to thee,’ he is silent as to what he will do, in order that whilst Israel is left in uncertainty as to the part...

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AMOS 4:1 _§ 2. Second address. The prophet reproves the voluptuous women of Samaria, and fortells their captivity _(Amos 4:1);_ with bitter irony he describes the people's devotion to idol...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Then the Lord says, Hear this word, ye cows of Bashan (Amos 4:1), They worshiped the calf so God calls them a bunch of cows. But because they worshiped the calf, He speaks disdainfully concerning th...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Thessalonians 5:2; Amos 5:4; Amos 2:14; Amos 4:2; Amos 4:3;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Therefore — In a more terrible manner will I now proceed against thee....

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