Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you: New Living Translation Listen, you people of Israel! Listen to this funeral song I am singing: English Standard Version Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel: Berean Standard Bible Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you: King James Bible Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. New King James Version Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel: New American Standard Bible Hear this word which I am taking up for you as a song of mourning, house of Israel: NASB 1995 Hear this word which I take up for you as a dirge, O house of Israel: NASB 1977 Hear this word which I take up for you as a dirge, O house of Israel. Legacy Standard Bible Hear this word which I take up for you as a funeral lament, O house of Israel: Amplified Bible Hear this word which I take up for you as a funeral song, O house of Israel: Christian Standard Bible Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament, house of Israel: Holman Christian Standard Bible Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament, house of Israel: American Standard Version Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. Aramaic Bible in Plain English Hear this word that I bear for you, a lamentation, house of Israel Brenton Septuagint Translation Hear ye this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise. Contemporary English Version Listen, nation of Israel, to my mournful message: Douay-Rheims Bible Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall rise no more. English Revised Version Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. GOD'S WORD® Translation Listen to this message, this funeral song that I sing about you, nation of Israel: Good News Translation Listen, people of Israel, to this funeral song which I sing over you: International Standard Version "Hear this accusation that I am bringing against you: 'A dirge, house of Israel: JPS Tanakh 1917 Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel: Literal Standard Version Hear this word that I am bearing to you, | A lamentation, O house of Israel: Majority Standard Bible Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you: New American Bible Hear this word which I utter concerning you, this dirge, house of Israel: NET Bible Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel: New Revised Standard Version Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel: New Heart English Bible Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel. Webster's Bible Translation Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. World English Bible Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel: Young's Literal Translation Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel: Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context A Lamentation against Israel1Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you: 2“Fallen is Virgin Israel, never to rise again. She lies abandoned on her land, with no one to raise her up.”… Cross References Jeremiah 7:29 Cut off your hair and throw it away. Raise up a lamentation on the barren heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of His wrath.' Jeremiah 9:10 I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away. Jeremiah 9:17 This is what the LORD of Hosts says: "Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. Ezekiel 19:1 "As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel Treasury of Scripture Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel. Hear. Amos 3:1 Hear this word that the LORD hath spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family which I brought up from the land of Egypt, saying, Amos 4:1 Hear this word, ye kine of Bashan, that are in the mountain of Samaria, which oppress the poor, which crush the needy, which say to their masters, Bring, and let us drink. I take. Amos 5:16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing. Jeremiah 7:29 Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the LORD hath rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath. Jeremiah 9:10,17,20 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast are fled; they are gone… Jump to Previous Bearing Children Dirge Ear Hear House Israel Lamentation Song Sorrow WordJump to Next Bearing Children Dirge Ear Hear House Israel Lamentation Song Sorrow WordAmos 5 1. A lamentation for Israel.4. An exhortation to repentance. 21. God rejects their hypocritical service. Verse 1-ch. 6:14. - § 8. Third address: the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel. (Vers. 1-3.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has declined from the right way. To make this plain, he contrasts God's power and majesty with the people's iniquity, instances of which he gives (vers. 4-12). The only condition of safety is amendment (vers. 13-15); and as they refuse to reform, they shall have cause to lament (vers. 16, 17). This threat is enforced by the two emphatic "woes" that follow, the first of which demonstrates the baselessness of their trust in their covenant relation to God (vers. 18-27); the second denounces the careless lives of the chiefs, who, revelling in luxury, believed not in the coming judgment (Amos 6:1-6). Therefore they shall go into captivity, and the kingdom shall be utterly overthrown (vers. 7-11), because they act iniquitously and are self-confident (vers. 12-14). Verse 1. - Hear ye this word. To show the certainty of the judgment and his own feeling about it, the prophet utters his prophecy in the form of a dirge (kinah, 2 Samuel 1:17; 2 Chronicles 35:25). Which I take up against you; or, which I raise over you, as if the end had come. O house of Israel; in the vocative. The Vulgate has, Domus Israel cecidit; so the LXX. But the present Hebrew text is most suitable, making the dirge begin at ver. 2. The ten tribes are addressed as in ver. 6. Parallel Commentaries ... Hebrew Hearשִׁמְע֞וּ (šim·‘ū) Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine plural Strong's 8085: To hear intelligently this הַזֶּ֗ה (haz·zeh) Article | Pronoun - masculine singular Strong's 2088: This, that word, הַדָּבָ֣ר (had·dā·ḇār) Article | Noun - masculine singular Strong's 1697: A word, a matter, thing, a cause O house בֵּ֥ית (bêṯ) Noun - masculine singular construct Strong's 1004: A house of Israel, יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃ (yiś·rā·’êl) Noun - proper - masculine singular Strong's 3478: Israel -- 'God strives', another name of Jacob and his desc this אֲשֶׁ֨ר (’ă·šer) Pronoun - relative Strong's 834: Who, which, what, that, when, where, how, because, in order that lamentation קִינָ֖ה (qî·nāh) Noun - feminine singular Strong's 7015: An elegy, dirge I אָנֹכִ֜י (’ā·nō·ḵî) Pronoun - first person common singular Strong's 595: I take up נֹשֵׂ֧א (nō·śê) Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular Strong's 5375: To lift, carry, take against you: עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם (‘ă·lê·ḵem) Preposition | second person masculine plural Strong's 5921: Above, over, upon, against Links Amos 5:1 NIVAmos 5:1 NLT Amos 5:1 ESV Amos 5:1 NASB Amos 5:1 KJV Amos 5:1 BibleApps.com Amos 5:1 Biblia Paralela Amos 5:1 Chinese Bible Amos 5:1 French Bible Amos 5:1 Catholic Bible OT Prophets: Amos 5:1 Listen to this word which I take (Amo. 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