Amos 5:16

Modern English Version

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

And Jeremiah composed a dirge for Josiah, and all the male and female singers speak of Josiah in their laments to this day; and they made them a statute in Israel; behold, they are written in the Laments.

Isaiah 15:8

For the cry has gone all around the borders of Moab; its wailing to Eglaim, and its wailing to Beer Elim.

Isaiah 22:12

In that day the Lord God of Hosts called you to weeping and mourning, and to tear your hair and wear sackcloth.

Jeremiah 30:5

For thus says the Lord: I have heard a sound of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

Jeremiah 4:31

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

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 9:16

I will scatter them also among the nations, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I will send a sword after them until I have consumed them.

Hosea 4:3

Therefore the land dries up, and everyone who lives in it withers with the beasts of the field and the birds of the sky; even the fish of the sea disappear.

Joel 1:11

Despair, fieldworkers; wail, vinedressers, for the wheat and the barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast, call a sacred assembly, assemble the elders and all the inhabitants of the land to the house of the Lord your God, and cry out to the Lord.

Joel 1:15

Alas, for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and like devastation from the Almighty it comes.

Joel 1:8

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

Amos 3:13

Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, says the Lord God, the God of Hosts:

Amos 5:27

as I drive you away into exile beyond Damascus, says the Lord, whose name is the God of Hosts.

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into dirges; I will put sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.

Amos 8:3

“The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day,” says the Lord God. “The corpses shall be many, cast down everywhere. Hush!”

Micah 1:8

Because of this I will lament and wail, I will go about barefoot and naked; I will howl like the jackals and moan like owlets.

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!”

Revelation 18:10

Standing far off for the fear of her torment, they will say: ‘Alas, alas for that great city, that mighty city, Babylon! In one hour your judgment has come.’

Revelation 18:19

They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and wailing, and saying: ‘Alas, alas, that great city, in which all who had ships in the sea grew rich from her wealth! In one hour she has been laid waste!’