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Amos 5:16

WEB

16Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says: Wailing will be in all the wide ways. They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They will call the farmer to mourning, and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

KJV

16Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.

BSB

16Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries ofAlas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

FBV

16For this is what the Lord, the Lord God of power says: There will be weeping in the city squares and wailing[+] in the streets. They will call even the farmers to grieve, as well as the professional mourners.


Extra References

Joel 1:11

11Be confounded, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field has perished.


Jeremiah 9:17-20

17The LORD of Armies says, Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come. Send for the skillful women, that they may come. 18Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How we are ruined! We are greatly confounded because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings.’” 20Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbor a lamentation.


Jeremiah 9:10

10I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burned up, so that no one passes through; Men can’t hear the voice of the livestock. Both the birds of the sky and the animals have fled. They are gone.


Isaiah 22:12

12In that day, the Lord, GOD [+] of Armies, called to weeping, to mourning, to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth;


Joel 1:14

14Sanctify 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 to the LORD.


Revelation 18:10

10standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.’


Joel 1:8

8Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!


Revelation 18:15-16

15The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning, 16saying, ‘Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!


Micah 1:8

8For this I will lament and wail. I will go stripped and naked. I will howl like the jackals and mourn like the ostriches.


Amos 3:13

13Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob,” says the Lord GOD, the God of Armies.