Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Holman Bible
Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament,
International Standard Version
"Hear this accusation that I am bringing against you: "A dirge, house of Israel:
A Conservative Version
Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
American Standard Version
Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
Amplified
Bible in Basic English
Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.
Darby Translation
Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel.
Julia Smith Translation
Hear ye this word which I lift up to you, a lamentation, O house of Israel.
King James 2000
Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Hear this word that I [am] going to intone over you [as] a lament, O house of Israel!
Modern King James verseion
Hear this Word which I take up against you, a dirge, O house of Israel.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hear this word, O ye house of Israel. And why? I must make this moan for you:
NET Bible
Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel:
New Heart English Bible
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
The Emphasized Bible
Hear ye this word, which, I, am taking up concerning you - even a dirge, O house of Israel.
Webster
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.
Youngs Literal Translation
Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:
Interlinear
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Dabar
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 5:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Lament And Call To Repentance
1
Cross References
Ezekiel 19:1
And you, take up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
Jeremiah 7:29
"'Cut off your hair and cast it away; raise a lamentation on the bare heights, for the LORD has rejected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.'
Jeremiah 9:10
"I will take up weeping and wailing for the mountains, and a lamentation for the pastures of the wilderness, because they are laid waste so that no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard; both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled and are gone.
Jeremiah 9:17
Thus says the LORD of hosts: "Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come;
Jeremiah 9:20
Hear, O women, the word of the LORD, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; teach to your daughters a lament, and each to her neighbor a dirge.
Ezekiel 19:14
And fire has gone out from the stem of its shoots, has consumed its fruit, so that there remains in it no strong stem, no scepter for ruling.This is a lamentation and has become a lamentation.
Ezekiel 26:17
And they will raise a lamentation over you and say to you, "'How you have perished, you who were inhabited from the seas, O city renowned, who was mighty on the sea; she and her inhabitants imposed their terror on all her inhabitants!
Ezekiel 27:2
"Now you, son of man, raise a lamentation over Tyre,
Ezekiel 27:27-32
Your riches, your wares, your merchandise, your mariners and your pilots, your caulkers, your dealers in merchandise, and all your men of war who are in you, with all your crew that is in your midst, sink into the heart of the seas on the day of your fall.
Ezekiel 28:12
"Son of man, raise a lamentation over the king of Tyre, and say to him, Thus says the Lord GOD: "You were the signet of perfection, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
Ezekiel 32:2
"Son of man, raise a lamentation over Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: "You consider yourself a lion of the nations, but you are like a dragon in the seas; you burst forth in your rivers, trouble the waters with your feet, and foul their rivers.
Ezekiel 32:16
This is a lamentation that shall be chanted; the daughters of the nations shall chant it; over Egypt, and over all her multitude, shall they chant it, declares the Lord GOD."
Amos 3:1
Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O people of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:
Amos 4:1
"Hear this word, you cows of Bashan, who are on the mountain of Samaria, who oppress the poor, who crush the needy, who say to your husbands, 'Bring, that we may drink!'
Amos 5:16
Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: "In all the squares there shall be wailing, and in all the streets they shall say, 'Alas! Alas!' They shall call the farmers to mourning and to wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,
Micah 2:4
In that day they shall take up a taunt song against you and moan bitterly, and say, "We are utterly ruined; he changes the portion of my people; how he removes it from me! To an apostate he allots our fields."