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Amos 5:1
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Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament, house of Israel:
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Yisra'el.
Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
Hear this word which I am taking up for you as a song of mourning, house of Israel:
Listen to this funeral song that I sing about you, people of Israel.
Hear this word which I take up for you as a funeral song, O house of Israel:
Heare ye this worde, which I lift vp vpon you, euen a lamentation of the house of Israel.
Hear this word which I take up for you as a dirge, O house of Israel:
Hear this word which I take up for you as a funeral lament, O house of Israel:
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
Listen, nation of Israel, to my mournful message:
Hear this word that I take up against you in lament, house of Isra'el:
Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel.
People of Israel, listen to this song. This funeral song is about you.
HEAR this word which I take up concerning you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel:
Listen, people of Israel, to this funeral song which I sing over you:
Hear this word that I am going to intone over you as a lament, O house of Israel!
Hear this word which I am lifting up against you, a dirge, O house of Israel.
Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.
Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:
Heare ye this word which I take vp against you, euen a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Heare ye this worde whiche I lift vp vpon you, [euen] a lamentation of the house of Israel.
Hear ye this word of the Lord, even a lamentation, which I take up against you. The house of Israel is fallen; it shall no more rise.
Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
Here ye this word, for Y reise on you a weilyng.
Hear this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, [even] a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel:
Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:
Listen, you people of Israel! Listen to this funeral song I am singing:
Hear this word, O people of Israel, this song of sorrow which I sing for you:
Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
Hear ye this word, which, I, am taking up concerning you - even a dirge, O house of Israel.
Hear ye this word, which I take up concerning you for a lamentation. The house of Israel is fallen, and it shall rise no more.
Hear this word which I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:
Heare this worde (o ye house of Israel) and why? I must make this mone for you:
Listen to this, family of Israel, this Message I'm sending in bold print, this tragic warning:
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
Hear: Amos 3:1, Amos 4:1
I take: Amos 5:16, Jeremiah 7:29, Jeremiah 9:10, Jeremiah 9:17, Jeremiah 9:20, Ezekiel 19:1, Ezekiel 19:14, Ezekiel 26:17, Ezekiel 27:2, Ezekiel 27:27-32, Ezekiel 28:12, Ezekiel 32:2, Ezekiel 32:16, Micah 2:4
Reciprocal: 2 Kings 18:11 - the king Joel 1:2 - Hear Zephaniah 2:5 - the word
Cross-References
These are the generations of the heavens and of the earth when they were created, in the day that the Lord God made the earth and the heavens,
And Methuselah lived after he begat Lamech seven hundred eighty and two years, and begat sons and daughters:
And all the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years: and he died.
These are the generations of Noah: Noah was a just man and perfect in his generations, and Noah walked with God.
Now these are the generations of the sons of Noah, Shem, Ham, and Japheth: and unto them were sons born after the flood.
Adam, Sheth, Enosh,
Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.
Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;
The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David, the son of Abraham.
For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, forasmuch as he is the image and glory of God: but the woman is the glory of the man.
Gill's Notes on the Bible
Hear ye the word which I take up against you,.... And which was not his own word, but the word of the Lord; and which he took up, by his direction as a heavy burden as some prophecies are called, and this was; and which, though against them, a reproof for their sins, and denunciation of punishment for them, yet was to be heard; for every word of God is pure, and to be hearkened to, whether for us or against us; since the whole is profitable, either for doctrine and instruction in righteousness, or for reproof and correction. It may be rendered, "which I take up concerning you", or "over you" z:
[even] a lamentation, O house of Israel; a mournful ditty, an elegiac song over the house of Israel, now expiring, and as it were dead. This word was like Ezekiel's roll, in which were written "lamentation, and mourning, and woe", Ezekiel 2:10; full of mournful matter, misery, and distress, as follows:
z עליכם "de vobis", Tigurine version, Mercerus, Piscator, Cocceius; "super vos", Pagninus, Montanus; "pro vobis", Vatablus.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
In order to impress Israel the more, Amos begins this his third appeal by a “dirge” over its destruction, mourning over those who were full of joy, and thought themselves safe and enviable. As if a living man, in the midst of his pride and luxury and buoyant recklessness of heart, could see his own funeral procession, and hear, as it were, over himself the “earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust.” It would give solemn thoughts, even though he should impatiently put them from him. So must it to Israel, when after the tide of victories of Jeroboam II, Amos said, “Hear this word which I am lifting up,” as a heavy weight, to cast it down “against” or “upon you,” a funeral “dirge,” O house of Israel. Human greatness is so unstable, human strength so fleeting, that the prophet of decay finds a response in man’s own conscience, however he may silence or resent it. He would not resent it, unless he felt its force.
Dionysius: “Amos, an Israelite, mourneth over Israel, as Samuel did over Saul 1 Samuel 15:35, or as Isaiah says, “I will weep bitterly; labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people” Isaiah 22:4; images of Him who wept over Jerusalem.” “So are they bewailed, who know not why they are bewailed, the more miserable, because they know not their own misery.”
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
CHAPTER V
This chapter opens with a tender and pathetic lamentation, in
the style of a funeral song, over the house of Israel, 1, 2.
The prophet then glances at the awful threatening denounced
against them, 3;
earnestly exhorting them to renounce their idols, and seek
Jehovah, of whom he gives a very magnificent description, 4-9.
He then reproves their injustice and oppression with great
warmth and indignation; exhorts them again to repentance; and
enforces his exhortation with the most awful threatenings,
delivered with great majesty and authority, and in images full
of beauty and grandeur, 10-24.
The chapter concludes with observing that their idolatry was
of long standing, that they increased the national guilt, by
adding to the sins of their fathers; and that their punishment,
therefore, should be great in proportion, 25-27.
Formerly numbers of them were brought captive to Damascus, 2 Kings 10:32-33;
but now they must go beyond it to Assyria, 2 Kings 15:29; 2 Kings 17:6.
NOTES ON CHAP. V
Verse Amos 5:1. Hear ye this word — Attend to this doleful song which I make for the house of Israel.
