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; you of the ten tribes. Because I will do this unto thee, and therefore my last advice to you is to consider it well; if you think well of it, possibly you may see and prevent the threatened evil. Prepare to meet thy God; if you humble yourselves, and so return, it will be mercy to you; but if you proudly and sinfully refuse to return, know ye that you must perish, for you can never make good your cause against God, and yet you must meet him, for he will ere he hath done with you end the controversy. Thy God; who once was thy God, and whom thou still ownest for thy God, and who would yet be thine if thou repent.
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Amos 4:12
12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee, O Israel: and because I will do this unto thee, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.