Amos 5:16

Lighthouse Bible 2006

Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, says thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the farmer to mourning, and those that are skilful at lamentation to wailing.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

And Jeremiah lamented for Josiah: and all the singing men and the singing women spoke of Josiah in their lamentations to this day, and made them an ordinance in Israel: and, behold, they are written in the lamentations.

Isaiah 15:8

For the cry has gone round about the land of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim.

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day the Lord GOD of hosts called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to wearing sackcloth:

Jeremiah 30:5

For thus says the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in birth labor, and the anguish as of her that brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewails herself, that spreads her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.

Jeremiah 9:10

For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them also among the heathen, whom neither they nor their fathers have known: and I will send a sword after them, till I have consumed them.

Hosea 4:3

Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one who dwells therein shall grow feeble, with the beasts of the field, and with the birds of heaven; yea, the fish of the sea also shall be taken away.

Joel 1:11

Be ashamed, O you husbandmen; howl, O you vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.

Joel 1:14

Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,

Joel 1:15

Dreadful is the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin clothed with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Amos 3:13

Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, says the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,

Amos 5:27

Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, says the LORD, whose name is The God of hosts.

Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Amos 8:3

And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, says the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall throw them out in silence.

Micah 1:8

Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.

Micah 2:4

In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a sorrowful lamentation, and say, We are completely laid waste: he has changed the portion of my people: how he has removed it from me! turning away he has divided our fields.

Revelation 18:10

Standing afar off for fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! For in one hour has your judgment come.

Revelation 18:19

And they threw dust on their heads, and cried out, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, in which all were made rich who had ships in the sea because of her magnificence! For in one hour is she made desolate.