Amos 5:1
Amos chapter 5 · verse 1 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
Context
v.1This passage
v.2The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is cast down upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Ezekiel 19:1
Moreover, take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
- Ezekiel 19:14
And fire is gone out of the rods of its branches, it hath devoured its fruit, so that there is in it no strong rod to be a sceptre to rule. This is a lamentation, and shall be for a lamentation.
- Jeremiah 7:29
Cut off thy hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the bare heights; for Jehovah hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
- Ezekiel 27:27
Thy riches, and thy wares, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the dealers in thy merchandise, and all thy men of war, that are in thee, with all thy company which is in the midst of thee, shall fall into the heart of the seas in the day of thy ruin.
- Micah 2:4
In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove it from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.
- Ezekiel 32:16
This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament; the daughters of the nations shall lament therewith; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they lament therewith, saith the Lord Jehovah.