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Amos 5

Amos 5:16 KJV (With Strong’s)

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Therefore the Lord
Yhovah (Hebrew #3068)
(the) self-Existent or Eternal; Jehovah, Jewish national name of God
KJV usage: Jehovah, the Lord. Compare 3050, 3069.
Pronounce: yeh-ho-vaw'
Origin: from 1961
, the God
'elohiym (Hebrew #430)
gods in the ordinary sense; but specifically used (in the plural thus, especially with the article) of the supreme God; occasionally applied by way of deference to magistrates; and sometimes as a superlative
KJV usage: angels, X exceeding, God (gods)(-dess, -ly), X (very) great, judges, X mighty.
Pronounce: el-o-heem'
Origin: plural of 433
of hosts
tsaba' (Hebrew #6635)
from 6633; a mass of persons (or figuratively, things), especially reg. organized for war (an army); by implication, a campaign, literally or figuratively (specifically, hardship, worship)
KJV usage: appointed time, (+) army, (+) battle, company, host, service, soldiers, waiting upon, war(-fare).
Pronounce: tsaw-baw'
Origin: or (feminine) tsbadah {tseb-aw-aw'}
, the Lord
'Adonay (Hebrew #136)
the Lord (used as a proper name of God only)
KJV usage: (my) Lord.
Pronounce: ad-o-noy'
Origin: am emphatic form of 113
, saith
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
thus; Wailing
micepd (Hebrew #4553)
a lamentation
KJV usage: lamentation, one mourneth, mourning, wailing.
Pronounce: mis-pade'
Origin: from 5594
shall be in all streets
rchob (Hebrew #7339)
from 7337; a width, i.e. (concretely) avenue or area
KJV usage: broad place (way), street. See also 1050.
Pronounce: rekh-obe'
Origin: or rchowb {rekh-obe'}
; and they shall say
'amar (Hebrew #559)
to say (used with great latitude)
KJV usage: answer, appoint, avouch, bid, boast self, call, certify, challenge, charge, + (at the, give) command(-ment), commune, consider, declare, demand, X desire, determine, X expressly, X indeed, X intend, name, X plainly, promise, publish, report, require, say, speak (against, of), X still, X suppose, talk, tell, term, X that is, X think, use (speech), utter, X verily, X yet.
Pronounce: aw-mar'
Origin: a primitive root
in all the highways
chuwts (Hebrew #2351)
(both forms feminine in the plural) from an unused root meaning to sever; properly, separate by a wall, i.e. outside, outdoors
KJV usage: abroad, field, forth, highway, more, out(-side, -ward), street, without.
Pronounce: khoots
Origin: or (shortened) chuts {khoots}
, Alas
how (Hebrew #1930)
oh!
KJV usage: alas.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: by permutation from 1929
! alas
how (Hebrew #1930)
oh!
KJV usage: alas.
Pronounce: ho
Origin: by permutation from 1929
! and they shall call
qara' (Hebrew #7121)
to call out to (i.e. properly, address by name, but used in a wide variety of applications)
KJV usage: bewray (self), that are bidden, call (for, forth, self, upon), cry (unto), (be) famous, guest, invite, mention, (give) name, preach, (make) proclaim(- ation), pronounce, publish, read, renowned, say.
Pronounce: kaw-raw'
Origin: a primitive root (rather identical with 7122 through the idea of accosting a person met)
the husbandman
'ikkar (Hebrew #406)
a farmer
KJV usage: husbandman, ploughman.
Pronounce: ik-kawr'
Origin: from an unused root meaning to dig
to mourning
'ebel (Hebrew #60)
lamentation
KJV usage: mourning.
Pronounce: ay'-bel
Origin: from 56
, and suchl as are skilful
yada` (Hebrew #3045)
to know (properly, to ascertain by seeing); used in a great variety of senses, figuratively, literally, euphemistically and inferentially (including observation, care, recognition; and causatively, instruction, designation, punishment, etc.) (as follow)
KJV usage: acknowledge, acquaintance(-ted with), advise, answer, appoint, assuredly, be aware, (un-)awares, can(-not), certainly, comprehend, consider, X could they, cunning, declare, be diligent, (can, cause to) discern, discover, endued with, familiar friend, famous, feel, can have, be (ig-)norant, instruct, kinsfolk, kinsman, (cause to let, make) know, (come to give, have, take) knowledge, have (knowledge), (be, make, make to be, make self) known, + be learned, + lie by man, mark, perceive, privy to, X prognosticator, regard, have respect, skilful, shew, can (man of) skill, be sure, of a surety, teach, (can) tell, understand, have (understanding), X will be, wist, wit, wot.
Pronounce: yaw-dah'
Origin: a primitive root
of lamentation
nhiy (Hebrew #5092)
an elegy
KJV usage: lamentation, wailing.
Pronounce: neh-hee'
Origin: from 5091
to wailing
micepd (Hebrew #4553)
a lamentation
KJV usage: lamentation, one mourneth, mourning, wailing.
Pronounce: mis-pade'
Origin: from 5594
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Jer. 9:17‑19• 17Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
 18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. (Jer. 9:17‑19)

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Cross References

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the Lord.
Amos 5:27• 27Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, whose name is The God of hosts. (Amos 5:27)
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Amos 3:13• 13Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord God, the God of hosts, (Amos 3:13)
Wailing.
Amos 8:10• 10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day. (Amos 8:10)
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Isa. 15:2‑5,8• 2He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
 3In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly.
 4And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him.
 5My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
 8For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beer-elim. (Isa. 15:2‑5,8)
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Isa. 22:12• 12And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: (Isa. 22:12)
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Jer. 4:31• 31For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers. (Jer. 4:31)
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Jer. 9:10,18‑20• 10For 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.
 18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out.
 20Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation. (Jer. 9:10,18‑20)
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Joel 1:8,11,14• 8Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
 11Be ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
 14Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the Lord your God, and cry unto the Lord, (Joel 1:8,11,14)
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Mic. 1:8• 8Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls. (Mic. 1:8)
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Mic. 2:4• 4In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields. (Mic. 2:4)
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Rev. 18:10,15‑16,19• 10Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
 15The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing,
 16And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
 19And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate. (Rev. 18:10,15‑16,19)
such.
Jer. 9:17‑19• 17Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning women, that they may come:
 18And let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters.
 19For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. (Jer. 9:17‑19)

J. N. Darby Translation

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Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all broadways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! alas! And they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.