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Amos 5:1

Hear 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.”

3 This is what the Lord GOD says: “The city that marches out a thousand strong will only see a hundred return, and the one that marches out a hundred strong will have but ten left in the house of Israel.”

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Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
KJV
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
WEB
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:
ASV
Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
DARBY
Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel.
BLB
Hear this word that I take up against you⁺ [as] a lamentation, O house of Israel:
ÅB
Hør dette ord, en klagesang som jeg istemmer over dere, Israels hus!
OTB
Hør dette ordet, Israels hus, denne klagesang jeg løfter mot dere:
B1930
Hør dette ord, en klagesang som jeg istemmer over eder, Israels hus!

Study notes (Tyndale)

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Cross references

  • Ezekiel 19:1

    “As for you, take up a lament for the princes of Israel

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  • 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.

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  • 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.’

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  • 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.

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  • Amos 3:1

    Hear this word that the LORD has spoken against you, O children of Israel, against the whole family that I brought up out of the land of Egypt:

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  • Ezekiel 32:16

    This is the lament they will chant for her; the daughters of the nations will chant it. Over Egypt and all her multitudes they will chant it, declares the Lord GOD.”

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  • Ezekiel 26:17

    Then they will lament for you, saying, “How you have perished, O city of renown inhabited by seafaring men— she who was powerful on the sea, along with her people, who imposed terror on all peoples!

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  • Ezekiel 27:2

    “Now you, son of man, take up a lament for Tyre.

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