Amos 5:1 BSB — MannaFest

Amos 5:1

Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:

BSB

Parallel translations (2) ▾

ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Albert Barnes

1798–1870

Notes, Explanatory and Practical, on the Old and New Testaments (1832-1869)

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.

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Original language & word study

11 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
שִׁמְע֞וּ	shim.'U	hear	H8085 →
אֶת־	'et-	<obj.>	H853 →
הַדָּבָ֣ר	ha.da.Var	the word	H1697 →
הַזֶּ֗ה	ha.Zeh	<the> this	H2088 →
אֲשֶׁ֨ר	'a.Sher	which	H834 →
אָנֹכִ֜י	'a.no.Khi	I	H595 →
נֹשֵׂ֧א	no.Se'	[am] lifting up	H5375 →
עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם	'a.lei.Khem	on you	H5921 →
קִינָ֖ה	ki.Nah	a lamentation	H7015 →
בֵּ֥ית	beit	O house of	H1004 →
יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃	Yis.ra.'El	Israel	H3478 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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The walk

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Jeremiah 9:20
Now, O women, hear the word of the LORD. Open your ears to the word of His mouth. Teach your daughters to wail, and one another to lament.
leads to
- Luke 23:27–30
  A great number of people followed Him, including women who kept mourning and wailing for Him.
- Isaiah 32:9–13
  Stand up, you complacent women; listen to me. Give ear to my word, you overconfident daughters.
- Job 22:22
  Receive instruction from His mouth, and lay up His words in your heart.
Through
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.
leads to
- Amos 5:16–17
  Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will…
- Ecclesiastes 12:5
  when men fear the heights and dangers of the road, when the almond tree blossoms, the grasshopper loses its spring, and the caper berry shrivels—for then man goes to his eternal home and mourners…
Through
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…
leads to
- Jeremiah 12:4
  How long will the land mourn and the grass of every field be withered? Because of the evil of its residents, the animals and birds have been swept away, for the people have said,…
- Hosea 4:3
  Therefore the land mourns, and all who dwell in it will waste away with the beasts of the field and the birds of the air; even the fish of the sea disappear.
Through
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.’
leads to
- Job 1:20
  Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped,