Amos 5:1 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹ Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹ Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹ HEAR THIS word which I take up concerning you in lamentation, O house of Israel:

American Standard Version (1901)

¹ Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

Common English Bible

¹ Hear this word—a funeral song—that I am lifting up against you, house of Israel:

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹ Listen to this word, which I lift over you in lamentation. The house of Israel has fallen, and it will no longer rise again.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹ Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall rise no more.

Amos 5:1 Cross References

Jeremiah 18:13

Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask among the nations: Who has heard the like of this? The virgin Israel has done a most horrible thing.

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair and throw it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation that provoked his wrath.

Jeremiah 9:10

Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the animals have fled and are gone.

Jeremiah 9:17

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Consider and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skilled women to come;

Jeremiah 9:20

Hear, O women, the word of the Lord, and let your ears receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a dirge and each to her neighbor a lament.

Jeremiah 9:9

Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord, and shall I not bring retribution on a nation such as this?

Ezekiel 19:1

As for you, raise up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Ezekiel 19:14

And fire has gone out from its stem, has consumed its branches and fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling. This is a lamentation, and it is used as a lamentation.

Ezekiel 26:17

And they shall raise a lamentation over you and say to you: “How you have vanished from the seas, O city renowned, once mighty on the sea, you and your inhabitants, who imposed your terror on all the mainland!

Ezekiel 27:2

Now you, mortal, raise a lamentation over Tyre,

Ezekiel 28:12

Mortal, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him: Thus says the Lord God: You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 32:16

This is a lamentation; it shall be chanted. The women of the nations shall chant it. Over Egypt and all its hordes they shall chant it, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 32:2

Mortal, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You consider yourself a lion among the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you thrash about in your streams, trouble the water with your feet, and foul your streams.

Amos 3:1

Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan who are on Mount Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to their husbands, “Bring something to drink!”

Amos 5:16

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord: In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, “Alas! Alas!” They shall call the farmers to mourning and those skilled in lamentation to wailing;

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by Ashimah of Samaria and say, “As your god lives, O Dan,” and, “As the way of Beer-sheba lives”— they shall fall and never rise again.

Micah 2:4

On that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and wail with bitter lamentation and say, “We are utterly ruined; the Lord alters the inheritance of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he parcels out our fields.”