Amos 5:16

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

This is what the LORD has sworn: Noisy crying will be heard in every town and street. Even farmers will be told to mourn for the dead, together with those who are paid to mourn.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah the prophet wrote a funeral song in honour of Josiah. And since then, anyone in Judah who mourns the death of Josiah sings that song. It is included in the collection of funeral songs.

Isaiah 15:8

In the towns of Eglaim and of Beerelim and everywhere else in Moab mournful cries are heard.

Isaiah 22:12

When all this happened, the LORD All-Powerful told you to weep and mourn, to shave your heads, and wear sackcloth.

Jeremiah 4:31

I heard groaning and crying. Was it a woman giving birth to her first child? No, it was Jerusalem. She was gasping for breath and begging for help. “I'm dying!” she said. “They have murdered me.”

Jeremiah 9:10

I weep for the pasture land in the hill country. It's so barren and scorched that no one travels there. No cattle can be found there, and birds and wild animals have all disappeared.

Jeremiah 9:16

I'll scatter them in foreign countries that they and their ancestors have never even heard of. Finally, I will send enemy soldiers to kill every last one of them.

Hosea 4:3

And so your land is a desert. Every living creature is dying— people and wild animals, birds and fish.

Joel 1:11

Mourn for our farms and our vineyards! There's no wheat or barley growing in our fields.

Joel 1:14

Tell the leaders and people to come together at the temple. Order them to go without eating and to pray sincerely.

Joel 1:15

We are in for trouble! Soon the LORD All-Powerful will bring disaster.

Joel 1:8

Grieve like a young woman mourning for the man she was to marry.

Amos 3:13

The LORD God All-Powerful told me to speak this message against Jacob's descendants:

Amos 5:27

I will force you to march as captives beyond Damascus. I, the LORD God All-Powerful, have spoken!

Amos 8:10

Your festivals and joyful singing will turn into sorrow. You will wear sackcloth and shave your heads, as you would at the death of your only son. It will be a horrible day.

Amos 8:3

Instead of singing in the temple, they will cry and weep. Dead bodies will be everywhere. So keep silent! I, the LORD, have spoken!”

Micah 1:8

Because of this tragedy, I go barefoot and naked. My crying and weeping sound like howling wolves or ostriches.

Micah 2:4

When that happens, this sorrowful song will be sung about you: “Ruined! Completely ruined! The LORD has taken our land and given it to traitors.”

Revelation 18:10

Her sufferings will frighten them, and they will stand at a distance and say, “Pity that great and powerful city! Pity Babylon! In a single hour her judgment has come.”

Revelation 18:19

They cried loudly, and in their sorrow they threw dust on their heads, as they said, “Pity the great city of Babylon! Everyone who sailed the seas became rich from her treasures. But in a single hour the city was destroyed.