Amos 5:1
Hear this word that I am bearing to you, || A lamentation, O house of Israel:
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
In Context
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:29Cut off your crown, and cast [it] away, || And lift up lamentation on high places, || For YHWH has rejected, || And He leaves the generation of His wrath.
Jeremiah 9:10I lift up weeping and wailing for the mountains, || And a lamentation for the habitations of the wilderness, || For they have been burned up without any passing over, || Nor have they heard the voice of livestock, || From the bird of the heavens and to the beast—they have fled, || They have gone.
Jeremiah 9:20But hear, you women, a word of YHWH, || And your ear receives a word of His mouth, || And teach your daughters wailing, || And each her neighbor lamentation.
Ezekiel 19:1“And you, lift up a lamentation to princes of Israel,
Ezekiel 26:17And have lifted up a lamentation for you, || And said to you: How you have perished, || That are inhabited from the seas, || The praised city, that was strong in the sea, || She and her inhabitants, || Who put their terror on all her inhabitants!
Ezekiel 27:27Your wealth and your wares, || Your merchandise, your mariners, || And your pilots, strengtheners of your breach, || And the traders of your merchandise, || And all your men of war, who [are] in you, || And in all your assembly that [is] in your midst, || Fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your fall,
Matthew Henry on Amos 5:1
The scope of this chapter is to prosecute the exhortation given to Israel in the close of the foregoing chapter to prepare to meet their God; the prophet here tells them, I. What preparation they must make; they must "seek the Lord," and not seek any more to idols ( ver. 4-8 ); they must seek good, and love it, ver. 14, 15 . II. Why they must make this preparation to meet their God, 1. Because of the present deplorable condition they were in, ver. 1-3 . 2. Because it was by sin that they were brought into such a… Read the whole commentary →