Amos 5:1
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Context
This verse from Amos Chapter 5 connects to 10 cross-references. A funeral lament over fallen Israel: the maiden Israel has fallen with no one to raise her up. God calls for seeking him rather than Bethel and declares that his day — the day of the Lord — is darkness …
Other Translations
Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:
Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.
Cross References
Cut off thine hair, O Jerusalem, and cast it away, and take up a lamentation on high places; for the …
For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, …
Thus saith the Lord of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send …
Yet hear the word of the Lord, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, …
Moreover take thou up a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath devoured her fruit, so that she hath …
And they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, How art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited …
Now, thou son of man, take up a lamentation for Tyrus;
Thy riches, and thy fairs, thy merchandise, thy mariners, and thy pilots, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy merchandise, …
And in their wailing they shall take up a lamentation for thee, and lament over thee, saying, What city is …