Amos 5:16 BSB — MannaFest

Amos 5:16

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 be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

BSB

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ASV

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

KJV

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

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

They shall call the husbandman to mourning - Because the crops have failed, and the ground has been tilled in vain. Such as are skillful of lamentation - See the note on Jer 9:17.

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Original language & word study

23 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
לָ֠כֵן	La.khen	<to> therefore	H3651 →
כֹּֽה־	koh-	thus	H3541 →
אָמַ֨ר	'a.Mar	he says	H559 →
יְהוָ֜ה	Yah.weh	Yahweh	H3068 →
אֱלֹהֵ֤י	'e.lo.Hei	God of	H430 →
צְבָאוֹת֙	tze.va.'Ot	hosts	H6635 →
אֲדֹנָ֔י	'a.do.Nai	[the] Lord	H136 →
בְּכָל־	be.khol	[will be] in all	H3605 →
רְחֹב֣וֹת	re.cho.Vot	[the] open places	H7339 →
מִסְפֵּ֔ד	mis.Ped	wailing	H4553 →
וּבְכָל־	u.ve.Khol-	and in all	H3605 →
חוּצ֖וֹת	chu.Tzot	[the] streets	H2351 →
יֹאמְר֣וּ	yo.me.Ru	people will say	H559 →
הוֹ־	hov-	alas!	H1930 →
ה֑וֹ	ho	alas!	H1930 →
וְקָרְא֤וּ	ve.ka.re.'U	and people will call	H7121 →
אִכָּר֙	'i.Kar	a farmer	H406 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
אֵ֔בֶל	'E.vel	mourning	H60 →
וּמִסְפֵּ֖ד	u.mis.Ped	and wailing	H4553 →
אֶל־	'el-	to	H413 →
י֥וֹדְעֵי	Yod.'ei	[those who] know	H3045 →
נֶֽהִי׃	Ne.hi	<of> lamentation	H5092 →

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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
Revelation 18:19
Then they will throw dust on their heads as they weep and mourn and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, where all who had ships on the sea were enriched by her…
leads to
- Revelation 18:10
  In fear of her torment, they will stand at a distance and cry out: “Woe, woe to the great city, the mighty city of Babylon! For in a single hour your judgment has come.”
- Joshua 7:6
  Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown before the ark of the LORD until evening, as did the elders of Israel; and they all sprinkled dust on their heads.
- Ezekiel 27:30
  They will raise their voices for you and cry out bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in ashes.
- Revelation 18:3
  All the nations have drunk the wine of the passion of her immorality. The kings of the earth were immoral with her, and the merchants of the earth have grown wealthy from the extravagance…
- Job 2:12
  When they lifted up their eyes from afar, they could barely recognize Job. They began to weep aloud, and each man tore his robe and threw dust in the air over his head.
Through
Joel 1:11
Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.
leads to
- Jeremiah 14:3–4
  The nobles send their servants for water; they go to the cisterns, but find no water; their jars return empty. They are ashamed and humiliated; they cover their heads.
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.