Amos 5:16
Therefore thus says the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord:"Wailing will be in all the broad ways;and they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!'and they will call the farmer to mourning,and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
17In all vineyards there will be wailing;for I will pass through the midst of you," says the Lord.
Cross References
Isaiah 15:2They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off.
Isaiah 22:12In that day, the Lord, the Lord of hosts, called to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to dressing in sackcloth:
Jeremiah 9:10"For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the livestock; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone."
Jeremiah 9:17Thus says the Lord of hosts, "Consider, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful women, that they may come:"
Joel 1:8Mourn like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!
Joel 1:14Sanctify a fast.Call a solemn assembly.Gather the elders,and all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of the Lord, your God,and cry to the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Amos 5:5-16
God's Message to Israel; The Aggravated Sins of Israel; Warnings and Exhortations; Exhortations and Encouragements. ( b. c. 790.) 4 For thus saith the Lord unto the house of Israel, Seek ye me, and ye shall live: 5 But seek not Bethel, nor enter into Gilgal, and pass not to Beer-sheba: for Gilgal shall surely go into captivity, and Bethel shall come to nought. 6 Seek the Lord , and ye shall live; lest he break out like fire in the house of Joseph, and devour it, and there be none to quench it in Bethel. 7 Ye who… Read the whole commentary →