Amos 5:16

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of hosts, the Lord: In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, “Alas! Alas!” They shall call the farmers to mourning and those skilled in lamentation to wailing;

Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

Jeremiah also uttered a lament for Josiah, and all the singing men and singing women have spoken of Josiah in their laments to this day. They made these a custom in Israel; they are recorded in the Laments.

Isaiah 15:8

For a cry has gone around the land of Moab; the wailing reaches to Eglaim; the wailing reaches to Beer-elim.

Isaiah 22:12

On that day the Lord God of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and putting on sackcloth,

Jeremiah 30:5

Thus says the Lord: We have heard a cry of panic, of terror, and no peace.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I heard a cry as of a woman in labor, anguish as of one bringing forth her first child, the cry of daughter Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands, “Woe is me! I am fainting before killers!”

Jeremiah 9:10

Take up weeping and wailing for the mountains and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the animals have fled and are gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

I will scatter them among nations that neither they nor their ancestors have known, and I will send the sword after them until I have consumed them.

Hosea 4:3

Therefore the land mourns, and all who live in it languish; together with the wild animals and the birds of the air, even the fish of the sea are perishing.

Joel 1:11

Be dismayed, you farmers; wail, you vinedressers, over the wheat and the barley, for the crops of the field are ruined.

Joel 1:14

Consecrate a fast; call a solemn assembly. Gather 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 as destruction from the Almighty it comes.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin dressed in 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

therefore I will take you 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 lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.

Amos 8:3

The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day,” says the Lord God; “the dead bodies shall be many, cast out in every place. Be silent!”

Micah 1:8

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

Micah 2:4

On that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and wail with bitter lamentation and say, “We are utterly ruined; the Lord alters the inheritance of my people; how he removes it from me! Among our captors he parcels out our fields.”

Revelation 18:10

they will stand far off, in fear of her torment, and say, “Alas, alas, the great city, Babylon, the mighty city! For in one hour your judgment has come.”

Revelation 18:19

And they threw dust on their heads as they wept and mourned, crying out, “Alas, alas, the great city, where all who had ships at sea grew rich by her wealth! For in one hour she has been laid waste.”