Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 4:12

12 Therefore thus will I do unto thee , O Israel h: and because I will do this unto thee l, prepare to meet thy God, O Israel.

Because none of my former methods have succeeded as in reason might have been expected

in some more terrible manner will I now proceed against thee.

If you humble your selves and so return 'twill 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 controversie.

Who once was thy God, and whom thou still ownest for thy God, and who would yet be thine if thou repent.

You of the ten Tribes. 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 threatned evil.