Amos 5:16

The Scriptures 1998

Therefore יהוה  Elohim of hosts, יהוה, said this, “There is wailing in all open squares, and in all the streets they say, ‘Alas! Alas!’ and shall call the farmer to mourning, and skilled lamenters to wailing.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 35:25

And Yirmeyahu lamented for Yoshiyahu. And to this day all the singing men and the singing women speak of Yoshiyahu in their lamentations, and made it a law in Yisra’ĕ

Isaiah 15:8

For the cry has gone all around the borders of Mo’aḇ

Isaiah 22:12

And in that day the Master יהוה  of hosts called for weeping and for mourning, for baldness and for girding with sackcloth.

Jeremiah 30:5

“For this is what יהוה  said, ‘We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.

Jeremiah 4:31

For I have heard a voice as of a woman in labour, the distress as of her who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Tsiyon! She bewails herself, she spreads out her hands, saying, “Woe to me, for my being faints because of murderers!”

Jeremiah 9:10

“I shall take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they have been burned up, without any passing over, nor has the voice of cattle been heard. Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled, they have gone.

Jeremiah 9:16

“And I shall scatter them among the gentiles, whom neither they nor their fathers have known. And I shall send a sword after them until I have consumed them.”

Hosea 4:3

“Therefore the land mourns, and everyone living there languishes, with the beasts of the field and the birds of the heavens. And the fish of the sea are taken away.

Joel 1:11

The farmers are ashamed, the vinedressers wail over the wheat and over the barley, for the harvest of the field is destroyed.

Joel 1:14

Set apart a fast. Call an assembly, gather the elders, all the inhabitants of the land, into the House of יהוה  your Elohim, and cry out to יהוה.

Joel 1:15

Alas for the day! For the day of יהוה  is near, and it comes as destruction from the Almighty.

Joel 1:8

Wail like a maiden girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

Amos 3:13

“Hear and witness against the house of Yaʽ

Amos 5:27

“Therefore I shall send you into exile beyond Damascus,” said יהוה  Elohim of hosts – His Name.

Amos 8:10

and shall turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head, and shall make it like mourning for an only son, and its end like a day of bitterness.

Amos 8:3

“And the songs of the hĕ

Micah 1:8

Because of this I lament and howl. I go stripped and naked. I make a lamentation like jackals, and a mourning like ostriches.

Micah 2:4

“In that day one shall lift up a proverb against you, and he shall lament with a bitter lamentation, and shall say, ‘We have been utterly ravaged! He changes the inheritance of my people. How He removes it from me! He apportions our fields to the backslider.’ ”

Revelation 18:10

standing at a distance for fear of her torture, saying, ‘Woe! Woe, the great city Baḇ

Revelation 18:19

“And they threw dust on their heads and cried out, weeping and mourning, and saying, ‘Woe! Woe, the great city, in which all who had ships on the sea became rich by her wealth! For in one hour she was laid waste.’