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Amos 5:16

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Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:
“Wailing will be in all the wide ways;
and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’
and they will call the farmer to mourning,
and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.

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Amos 5:16 in other translations

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.

Amos 5:16 · American Standard Version

Amos 5:16 in context

  1. 14Seek good, and not evil,
    that you may live;
    and so Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be with you,
    as you say.
  2. 15Hate evil, love good,
    and establish justice in the courts.
    It may be that Yahweh, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
  3. 16Therefore Yahweh, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:
    “Wailing will be in all the wide ways;
    and they will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’
    and they will call the farmer to mourning,
    and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
  4. 17In all vineyards there will be wailing;
    for I will pass through the middle of you,” says Yahweh.
  5. 18“Woe to you who desire the day of Yahweh!
    Why do you long for the day of Yahweh?
    It is darkness,
    and not light.