Amos 5:1

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

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

In Context

2“The virgin of Israel has fallen; She shall rise no more. She is cast down on her land; there is no one to raise her up.”

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Cross References

Jeremiah 7:29Cut off your hair, and throw it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.

Jeremiah 9:10I will weep and wail for the mountains, and lament for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are burnt 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.

Jeremiah 9:20Yet hear the LORD’s word, you women. Let your ear receive the word of his mouth. Teach your daughters wailing. Everyone teach her neighbour a lamentation.

Ezekiel 19:1“Moreover, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

Ezekiel 26:17They will take up a lamentation over you, and tell you, “How you are destroyed, who were inhabited by seafaring men, the renowned city, who was strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, who caused their terror to be on all who lived there!”

Ezekiel 27:27Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners, your pilots, your repairers of ship seams, the dealers in your merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your company which is amongst you, will fall into the heart of the seas in the day of your ruin.

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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