God’s Word Translation
Amos 5:1
1Listen to this message, this funeral song that I sing about you, nation of Israel:
Amos 5:1 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
- New International Version (NIV)Hear this word, Israel, this lament I take up concerning you:
- English Standard Version (ESV)Hear this word that I take up over you in lamentation, O house of Israel:
- New King James Version (NKJV)Hear this word which I take up against you, a lamentation, O house of Israel:
Context of Amos 5:1
Listen to this message, this funeral song that I sing about you, nation of Israel: 2The people of Israel have fallen, never to rise again. They lie abandoned in their own land. There is no one to help them. 3This is what the Almighty Lord says: The city that sends 1,000 troops off to war will have ⌞only⌟ 100 left. The one that sends 100 troops off to war will have ⌞only⌟ 10 left for the nation of Israel.
Read all of Amos 5Amos 5:1 word by word
שִׁמְע֞וּ אֶת־הַדָּבָ֣ר הַזֶּ֗ה אֲשֶׁ֨ר אָנֹכִ֜י נֹשֵׂ֧א עֲלֵיכֶ֛ם קִינָ֖ה בֵּ֥ית יִשְׂרָאֵֽל׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Amos 5:1
- Amos 3:1Listen to this message which I, the Lord, have spoken against you Israelites, against your whole family that I brought out of Egypt.
- Amos 4:1Listen to this message, you cows of Bashan who live on Mount Samaria. You women oppress the poor and abuse the needy. You say to your husbands, “Get some wine! Let’s drink!”
- Amos 5:16This is what the Lord, the Almighty God of Armies, says: There will be loud crying in every city square, and people will say in every street, “Oh, no!” They will call on farmers to mourn and on professional mourners to cry loudly.
- Jeremiah 7:29“Cut off your hair and throw it away. Sing a song of mourning on the bare hills, because in his anger the Lord has rejected and abandoned the people of this generation.
- Jeremiah 9:10I will cry and weep for the mountains. I will sing a funeral song for the pastures in the wilderness. They are destroyed so that no one can travel through them. No one can hear the sound of cattle. Birds and cattle have fled. They are gone.
- Ezekiel 19:1Sing a funeral song for the princes of Israel.
- Ezekiel 26:17Then they will sing this funeral song for you: Tyre, you famous city, you have been destroyed. You have been shattered by the sea. You and your people ruled the sea. All your people terrified those who lived by the coast.
- Ezekiel 27:2“Son of man, sing a funeral song about Tyre.
- Ezekiel 28:12“Son of man, sing a funeral song for the ruler of Tyre. Tell him, ‘This is what the Almighty Lord says: You were the perfect example, full of wisdom and perfect in beauty.
- Ezekiel 32:2“Son of man, sing a funeral song for Pharaoh, king of Egypt. Tell him, ‘You think you are like a lion among the nations. Instead, you are like a crocodile in the water. You splash around in the water. You stir up the water with your feet. You make the streams muddy.
- Micah 2:4When that day comes, people will make fun of you. They will sing this sad song about you: “We are completely ruined. The Lord gives our people’s possessions ⌞to others⌟. He takes them from us. He divides our fields among our captors.”
Commentaries on Amos 5:1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 1Hear ye this word - Attend to this doleful song which I make for the house of Israel.Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 1In 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…Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 1Israel is called to seek the Lord. (1-6) Earnest exhortations to repentance. (7-17) Threatenings respecting idolatries. (18-27) Verses 1-6 The convincing, awakening word must be heard and heeded, as well as words of comfort and peace; for whether we hear or forbear, the word of God shall take effect. The Lord still proclaims mercy to men, but they often expect deliverance from such self-invented forms as make their condemnation sure. While they refuse to…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1lamentation: A lamentation (or lament) is a song or poem of sorrow. It often uses the form of a funeral song, even when it mourns a nation or a people rather than a single death. The Hebrew word qinah describes a special rhythm used for funeral songs. This rhythm has three beats followed by two beats (3 + 2). Most of the book of Lamentations is written in this qinah rhythm. This rhythm clearly showed something terrible. Israel was spoken of as if it had…Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1-271. lamentation--an elegy for the destruction coming on you. Compare Eze 32:2, "take up," namely, as a mournful burden (Eze 19:1; 27:2).Read the comment
In the dictionaries
Commentaries on Amos 5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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