thus.

Amos 4:2, 3
The Lord GOD has sworn by His holiness: "Behold, the days are coming when you will be taken away with hooks, and your posterity with fishhooks. . . .

Amos 2:14
Escape will fail the swift, the strong will not prevail by his strength, and the mighty will not save his life.

Amos 9:1-4
I saw the Lord standing beside the altar, and He said: "Strike the tops of the pillars so that the thresholds shake. Topple them on the heads of all the people, and I will kill the rest with the sword. None of those who flee will get away; none of the fugitives will escape. . . .

prepare.

Amos 5:4-15
For this is what the LORD says to the house of Israel: "Seek Me and live! . . .

Isaiah 47:3
Your nakedness will be uncovered and your shame will be exposed. I will take vengeance; I will spare no one.

Ezekiel 13:5
You did not go up to the gaps or restore the wall around the house of Israel so that it would stand in the battle on the Day of the LORD.

Ezekiel 22:30
I searched for a man among them to repair the wall and stand in the gap before Me on behalf of the land, so that I should not destroy it. But I found no one.

Hosea 13:8
Like a bear robbed of her cubs, I will attack them, and I will tear open their chests. There I will devour them like a lion, like a wild beast would tear them apart.

Matthew 5:25
Reconcile quickly with your adversary, while you are still on the way to court. Otherwise he may hand you over to the judge, and the judge may hand you over to the officer, and you may be thrown into prison.

Matthew 24:44-51
For this reason, you also must be ready, because the Son of Man will come at an hour when you do not expect Him. . . .

Matthew 25:1-13
At that time the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom. . . .

Mark 13:32-37
But as for that day or hour, no one knows, not even the angels in heaven, nor the Son, but only the Father. . . .

Luke 14:31, 32
Or what king on his way to war with another king will not first sit down and consider whether he can engage with ten thousand men the one coming against him with twenty thousand? . . .

Luke 21:3-36
"Truly I tell you, " He said, "this poor widow has put in more than all the others. . . .

1 Thessalonians 5:2-4
For you are fully aware that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. . . .

James 4:1-10
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don't they come from the passions at war within you? . . .

Revelation 3:3
Remember, then, what you have received and heard. Keep it and repent. If you do not wake up, I will come like a thief, and you will not know the hour when I will come upon you.