Amos 5:16

New American Bible - revised edition

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.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah also composed a lamentation for Josiah, which is recited to this day by all the male and female singers in their lamentations for Josiah. These have been made an ordinance for Israel, and can be found written in the Lamentations.

Isaiah 15:8

The cry has gone round the territory of Moab; As far as Eglaim his wailing, even at Beer-elim his wailing.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord, the God of hosts, called For weeping and mourning, for shaving the head and wearing sackcloth.

Jeremiah 30:5

Thus says the Lord: We hear a cry of fear: terror, not peace.

Jeremiah 4:31

Yes, I hear the cry, like that of a woman in labor, like the anguish of a mother bearing her first child— The cry of daughter Zion gasping, as she stretches out her hands: “Ah, woe is me! I sink exhausted before my killers!”

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 9:16

Thus says the Lord of hosts: Inquire, and call the wailing women to come; summon the most skilled of them.

Hosea 4:3

Therefore the land dries up, and everything that dwells in it languishes: The beasts of the field, the birds of the air, and even the fish of the sea perish.

Joel 1:11

Be appalled, you farmers! wail, you vinedressers, Over the wheat and the barley, because the harvest in the field is ruined.

Joel 1:14

Proclaim a holy fast! Call an assembly! Gather the elders, all who dwell in the land, To the house of the Lord, your God, and cry out to the Lord!

Joel 1:15

O! The day! For near is the day of the Lord, like destruction from the Almighty it is coming!

Joel 1:8

Wail like a young woman dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Amos 3:13

Hear and bear witness against the house of Jacob— an oracle of the Lord God, the God of hosts:

Amos 5:27

As I exile you 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 cover the loins of all with sackcloth and make every head bald. I will make it like the time of mourning for an only child, and its outcome like a day of bitter weeping.

Amos 8:3

The temple singers will wail on that day— oracle of the Lord God. Many shall be the corpses, strewn everywhere—Silence!

Micah 1:8

For this I will lament and wail, go barefoot and naked; I will utter lamentation like the jackals, mourning like the ostriches,

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!”

Revelation 18:10

They will keep their distance for fear of the torment inflicted on her, and they will say: “Alas, alas, great city, Babylon, mighty city. In one hour your judgment has come.”

Revelation 18:19

They threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning: “Alas, alas, great city, in which all who had ships at sea grew rich from her wealth. In one hour she has been ruined.