Amos 5:1 “Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against…”

Amos 5:1

Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

World English Bible

Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:

American Standard Version

Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.

Geneva Bible 1599

Heare ye this worde, which I lift vp vpon you, euen a lamentation of the house of Israel.

Darby Translation

Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel.

Young's Literal Translation

Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:

Bible in Basic English

Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.

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Cross references

“Hear”

Amos 3:1 Amos 4:1

Amos 3:1 · BSB

Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

Amos 4:1 · BSB

Hear this word, you cows of Bashan on Mount Samaria, you women who oppress the poor and crush the needy, who say to your husbands, “Bring us more to drink.”

“I take”

Ezekiel 19:1 Jeremiah 7:29 Jeremiah 9:10 Jeremiah 9:17 Amos 5:16 Jeremiah 9:20

Ezekiel 19:1 · BSB

“As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

Jeremiah 7:29 · BSB

Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’

Jeremiah 9:10 · BSB

I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the…

Jeremiah 9:17 · BSB

This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them.

Amos 5:16 · BSB

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

Jeremiah 9:20 · BSB

Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

2“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”

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