Amos 5:16 References

16 Therefore thus says the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, "There is awailing in all the plazas, And in all the streets they say, 'Alas! Alas!' They also call the bfarmer to mourning And cprofessional mourners to lamentation.

a Jeremiah 9:10, Jeremiah 9:18-20, Amos 8:3


Jeremiah 9

10 "For the amountains I will take up a weeping and wailing, And for the pastures of the bwilderness a dirge, Because they are claid waste so that no one passes through, And the lowing of the cattle is not heard; Both the dbirds of the sky and the beasts have fled; they are gone.

Jeremiah 9

18 "Let them make haste and take up a wailing for us, That our aeyes may shed tears And our eyelids flow with water.
19 "For a voice of awailing is heard from Zion, 'bHow are we ruined! We are put to great shame, For we have cleft the land, Because they have cast down our dwellings.'"
20 Now hear the word of the Lord, O you awomen, And let your ear receive the word of His mouth; Teach your daughters wailing, And everyone her neighbor a dirge.

Amos 8

3 "The asongs of the palace will turn to bwailing in that day," declares the Lord GOD. "Many will be the ccorpses; in every place they will cast them forth in silence."

Other references for Amos 5:16