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Amos 5:1

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.

2 The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.

3 For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to 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

    Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

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  • Jeremiah 9:17

    Thus 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:

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  • 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.

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  • Jeremiah 9:10

    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.

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  • 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,

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  • Ezekiel 32:16

    This is the lamentation wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for her, even for Egypt, and for all her multitude, saith the Lord GOD.

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  • Ezekiel 26:17

    And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of seafaring men, the renowned city, which wast strong in the sea, she and her inhabitants, which cause their terror to be on all that haunt it!

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  • Ezekiel 27:2

    Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;

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