Amos 5:1
Hear this word that I take up as a lament over you, house of Israel. 1
Unlocked Literal 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
Cross References
Jeremiah 7:29Cut off your hair and shave yourself, and throw away your hair. Sing a funeral song over the open places. For Yahweh has rejected and abandoned this generation in his rage.
Jeremiah 9:10I will sing a song of mourning and wailing for the mountains, and a funeral song will be sung for the meadows. 1 For they are burned so no one can pass through them. They will not hear the sound of any cattle. 1 The birds of the skies and the animals have all fled away. 1
Jeremiah 9:20So you women, hear Yahweh's word; pay attention to the messages that come from his mouth. 1 Then teach your daughters a mourning song, and each neighbor woman a funeral song. 1
Ezekiel 19:1“Now you, take up a lamentation against the leaders of Israel
Ezekiel 26:17They will lift up a lament for you and say to you, 1 How you, who were inhabited by sailors, have been destroyed. The famous city that was so strong—it is now gone from the sea. 1 The ones living in her once spread a terror about themselves upon everyone who lived near them. 1
Ezekiel 27:27Your wealth, merchandise, and trade goods; your sailors and pilots, and ship builders; your traders of merchandise and all the men of war who are in you, and all your crew—they will sink into the depths of the sea on the day of your destruction. 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 →