Amos 5:1
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A Lament for Israel
5 Hear this word which I (A)take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:
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Ezekiel 19:1
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Jeremiah 9:17
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The People Mourn in Judgment
17 Thus says the Lord of hosts:
“Consider and call for (A)the mourning women,
That they may come;
And send for skillful wailing women,
That they may come.
Jeremiah 9:10
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10 I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains,
And (A)for the [a]dwelling places of the wilderness a lamentation,
Because they are burned up,
So that no one can pass through;
Nor can men hear the voice of the cattle.
(B)Both the birds of the heavens and the beasts have fled;
They are gone.
Footnotes
- Jeremiah 9:10 Or pastures
Jeremiah 7:29
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29 (A)Cut off your hair and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on the desolate heights; for the Lord has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.’
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Micah 2:4
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4 In that day one shall take up a proverb against you,
And (A)lament with a bitter lamentation, saying:
‘We are utterly destroyed!
He has changed the [a]heritage of my people;
How He has removed it from me!
To [b]a turncoat He has divided our fields.’ ”
Amos 5:16
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The Day of the Lord
16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this:
“There shall be wailing in all streets,
And they shall say in all the highways,
‘Alas! Alas!’
They shall call the farmer to mourning,
(A)And skillful lamenters to wailing.
Amos 4:1
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Amos 3:1
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Authority of the Prophet’s Message
3 Hear this word that the Lord has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying:
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Ezekiel 32:16
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16 “This is the (A)lamentation
With which they shall lament her;
The daughters of the nations shall lament her;
They shall lament for her, for Egypt,
And for all her multitude,”
Says the Lord God.’ ”
Ezekiel 32:2
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Ezekiel 28:12
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12 “Son of man, (A)take up a lamentation for the king of Tyre, and say to him, ‘Thus says the Lord God:
(B)“You were the seal of perfection,
Full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Ezekiel 27:27-32
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27 “Your (A)riches, wares, and merchandise,
Your mariners and pilots,
Your caulkers and merchandisers,
All your men of war who are in you,
And the entire company which is in your midst,
Will fall into the midst of the seas on the day of your ruin.
28 The (B)common-land[a] will shake at the sound of the cry of your pilots.
29 “All (C)who handle the oar,
The mariners,
All the pilots of the sea
Will come down from their ships and stand on the [b]shore.
30 They will make their voice heard because of you;
They will cry bitterly and (D)cast dust on their heads;
They (E)will roll about in ashes;
31 They will (F)shave themselves completely bald because of you,
Gird themselves with sackcloth,
And weep for you
With bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
32 In their wailing for you
They will (G)take up a lamentation,
And lament for you:
(H)‘What city is like Tyre,
Destroyed in the midst of the sea?
Footnotes
- Ezekiel 27:28 open lands or pasturelands
- Ezekiel 27:29 Lit. land
Ezekiel 27:2
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2 “Now, son of man, (A)take up a lamentation for Tyre,
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Ezekiel 26:17
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17 And they will take up a (A)lamentation for you, and say to you:
“How you have perished,
O one inhabited by seafaring men,
O renowned city,
Who was (B)strong at sea,
She and her inhabitants,
Who caused their terror to be on all her inhabitants!
Ezekiel 19:14
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14 (A)Fire has come out from a rod of her branches
And devoured her fruit,
So that she has no strong branch—a scepter for ruling.’ ”
(B)This is a lamentation, and has become a lamentation.
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Jeremiah 9:20
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20 Yet hear the word of the Lord, O women,
And let your ear receive the word of His mouth;
Teach your daughters wailing,
And everyone her neighbor a lamentation.
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