Amos 5:1

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a kinah (lamentation), O Bais Yisroel. 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King James Version

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

In Context

2The Betulat Yisroel is fallen; 1 she shall no more rise; 1 she is forsaken in her own land; 1 there is none to raise her up. 1

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Cross References

Jeremiah 7:29Cut off thine hair, O Yerushalayim, and throw it away, 1 and take up a kinah (lamentation) on barren heights; 1 for Hashem hath rejected and abandoned 1 the dor evrato (the generation of His wrath).

Jeremiah 9:10And I will make Yerushalayim a heap of ruins, 1 and a ma'on of jackals; 1 and I will make the towns of Yehudah desolate, 1 without an inhabitant.

Jeremiah 9:20For mavet (death) is come up into our windows, 1 and is entered into our fortresses, 1 to cut off the olal (children) from the street, 1 and the bochurim from the rechovot. 1

Ezekiel 19:1Moreover take thou up a kinah (lament) for the nasi'im of Yisroel,

Ezekiel 26:17And they shall take up a kinah (lament, funeral dirge) for thee, and say to thee: 1 How thou hast perished, 1 that wast inhabited of seafaring men, 1 the renowned ir (city), 1 which wast chazakah on the yam, 1 she and her inhabitants, which spread their terror — 1 all who live there. + 26:17 in Tyre 1

Ezekiel 27:27Thy riches, and thy wares, 1 thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy sailors, 1 thy caulkers, 1 and the dealers in thy merchandise, 1 and all thy anshei hamilchamah, that are in thee, 1 and in all thy kahal (company) which is in the midst of thee, 1 shall fall into the midst of the yamim (seas) 1 in the day of thy shipwreck. 1

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 →

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