Amos 5:1

Modern English Version

Hear this word which I take up as a dirge against you, O house of Israel:

Cross References

Jeremiah 18:13

Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask now among the nations, who has heard such things? The virgin of Israel has done a very horrible thing.

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places, for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.

Jeremiah 9:10

For the mountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up so that no one can pass through them; nor can men hear the lowing of the cattle. Both the fowl of the heavens and the beast have fled; they are gone.

Jeremiah 9:17

Thus says the Lord of Hosts: Consider and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for wailing women, that they may come.

Jeremiah 9:20

Yet hear the word of the Lord, O you women, and let your ear receive the word of His mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone her neighbor a lamentation.

Jeremiah 9:9

Shall I not punish them for these things? says the Lord. Shall not My soul be avenged on such a nation as this?

Ezekiel 19:1

Moreover take up a lamentation for the officials of Israel,

Ezekiel 19:14

Fire has gone out from its branch; it has devoured its shoots and fruit, so that there is no strong rod in it, a scepter to rule. This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.

Ezekiel 26:17

They shall take up a lamentation over you and say to you: How you are destroyed, O inhabited one of the seas, the renowned city, which was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused her terror to be on all her inhabitants!

Ezekiel 27:2

Now you, son of man, take up a lamentation over Tyre.

Ezekiel 28:12

Son of man, take up a lamentation over the king of Tyre and say to him, Thus says the Lord God: You had the seal of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 32:16

This is the lamentation, and they shall chant it. The daughters of the nations shall chant it. They shall chant it over Egypt and over all her multitude, says the Lord God.

Ezekiel 32:2

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: You likened yourself to a young lion of the nations, but you are as the monster in the seas; and you burst forth in your rivers, and muddied the waters with your feet, and made foul their rivers.

Amos 3:1

Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O Israelites, against the whole family I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:

Amos 4:1

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

Amos 5:16

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord: Wailing will be in all the squares, and in all the streets they will say, “Alas! Alas!” They shall call the farmer to mourning, and to wailing those skilled in lamentation.

Amos 8:14

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

Micah 2:4

In that day they will take up a taunt against you, and they will wail a wailing lament, and say: “We are totally ruined! He diminishes the portion of my people; how He removes it from me! To a traitor He reassigns our fields!”