Amos 5:1

New American Bible - revised edition

Hear this word which I utter concerning you, this dirge, house of Israel:

Cross References

Jeremiah 18:13

Therefore thus says the Lord: Ask among the nations— who has ever heard the like? Truly horrible things virgin Israel has done!

Jeremiah 7:29

Cut off your hair and throw it away! on the heights raise a lament; The Lord has indeed rejected and cast off the generation that draws down his wrath.

Jeremiah 9:10

I will turn Jerusalem into a heap of ruins, a haunt of jackals; The cities of Judah I will make a waste, where no one dwells.

Jeremiah 9:17

Let them come quickly and raise for us a dirge, That our eyes may run with tears, our pupils flow with water.

Jeremiah 9:20

Death has come up through our windows, has entered our citadels, To cut down children in the street, young people in the squares.

Jeremiah 9:9

Over the mountains I shall break out in cries of lamentation, over the pastures in the wilderness, in a dirge: They are scorched, and no one crosses them, no sound of lowing cattle; Birds of the air as well as beasts, all have fled and are gone.

Ezekiel 19:1

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

Ezekiel 19:14

Fire flashed from her branch, and devoured her shoots; Now she does not have a strong branch, a royal scepter! This is a lamentation and serves as a lamentation.

Ezekiel 26:17

They will raise lament over you and say to you: How you have perished, gone from the seas, Renowned City! Once she was mighty on the sea, she and her inhabitants, Those who spread their terror to all who dwelt nearby.

Ezekiel 27:2

You, son of man, raise a lament over Tyre,

Ezekiel 28:12

Son of man, raise a lament over the king of Tyre, and say to him: Thus says the Lord God: You were a seal of perfection, full of wisdom, perfect in beauty.

Ezekiel 32:16

This is the lamentation women of all nations will chant; They will raise it over Egypt; over all its hordes they will chant it— oracle of the Lord God. Another Lament over Egypt.

Ezekiel 32:2

Son of man, utter a lament over Pharaoh, the king of Egypt, and say to him: You liken yourself to a lion among nations, but you are like the monster in the sea! Thrashing about in your streams, churning the water with your feet, polluting the streams.

Amos 3:1

Hear this word, Israelites, that the Lord speaks concerning you, concerning the whole family I brought up from the land of Egypt:

Amos 4:1

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who live on the mount of Samaria: Who oppress the destitute and abuse the needy; Who say to your husbands, “Bring us a drink!”

Amos 5:16

Therefore, thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord: In every square there shall be lamentation, and in every street they shall cry, “Oh, no!” They shall summon the farmers to wail and the professional mourners to lament.

Amos 8:14

Those who swear by Ashima of Samaria, and who say, “By the life of your god, O Dan,” “By the life of the Power of Beer-sheba!” They shall fall, never to rise again.

Micah 2:4

On that day you shall be mocked, and there will be bitter lament: “Our ruin is complete, our fields are divided among our captors, The fields of my people are measured out, and no one can get them back!”