Amos 5:16

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

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.

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

לָ֠כֵן כֹּֽה־אָמַ֨ר יְהוָ֜ה אֱלֹהֵ֤י צְבָאוֹת֙ אֲדֹנָ֔י בְּכָל־רְחֹב֣וֹת מִסְפֵּ֔ד וּבְכָל־חוּצ֖וֹת יֹאמְר֣וּ הוֹ־ה֑וֹ וְקָרְא֤וּ אִכָּר֙ אֶל־אֵ֔בֶל וּמִסְפֵּ֖ד אֶל־י֥וֹדְעֵי נֶֽהִי׃

Transliteration

Therefore thus-ʾāmar YHWH ʾĕlōhê ṣəbāʾôt ʾădōnāy: In-all-rəḥōbôt mispēd and-in-all-ḥûṣôt yōʾmərû ho-ho, and-qārəʾû ʾikkār to-ʾēbel and-mispēd to-yôdəʿê nehî

Grammar Details

• *ʾāmar*: perfect, qal, 3rd masculine singular - he has said
• *YHWH*: divine name
• *ʾĕlōhê*: construct plural of *ʾĕlōhîm* - God of
• *ṣəbāʾôt*: noun, feminine plural - hosts/armies
• *ʾădōnāy*: noun with 1st person plural suffix used as divine title - my Lord
• *rəḥōbôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - squares/open places of
• *mispēd*: noun, masculine singular - wailing/lamentation
• *ḥûṣôt*: noun, feminine plural construct - streets/outside places of
• *yōʾmərû*: imperfect, qal, 3rd masculine plural - they will say
• *qārəʾû*: perfect consecutive, qal, 3rd common plural - and they will call
• *ʾikkār*: noun, masculine singular - farmer/plowman
• *ʾēbel*: noun, masculine singular - mourning
• *yôdəʿê*: participle, qal, masculine plural construct - ones knowing of
• *nehî*: noun, masculine singular - wailing/lamentation

Word Meanings

• *rəḥōbôt*: squares/plazas/broad places
• *mispēd*: wailing/lamentation/mourning
• *ḥûṣôt*: streets/outside places
• *ʾikkār*: farmer/plowman/husbandman
• *ʾēbel*: mourning/grief
• *yôdəʿê*: ones knowing/skilled in
• *nehî*: wailing/lamentation/dirge

Referenced Verses

• Joel 1:11 : 11 Be confounded, O ye husbandmen, wail, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; for the harvest of the field is perished.
• Jer 9:17-20 : 17 Thus saith Jehovah of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skilful women, that they may come: 18 and let them make haste, and take up a wailing for us, that our eyes may run down with tears, and our eyelids gush out with waters. 19 For a voice of wailing is heard out of Zion, How are we ruined! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because they have cast down our dwellings. 20 Yet hear the word of Jehovah, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbor lamentation.
• Jer 9:10 : 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the pastures of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none passeth through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the heavens and the beasts are fled, they are gone.
• Joel 1:8 : 8 Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.
• Isa 15:2-5 : 2 They are gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep: Moab waileth over Nebo, and over Medeba; on all their heads is baldness, every beard is cut off. 3 In their streets they gird themselves with sackcloth; on their housetops, and in their broad places, every one waileth, weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon crieth out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembleth within him. 5 My heart crieth out for Moab; her nobles [flee] unto Zoar, to Eglath - shelishi-yah: for by the ascent of Luhith with weeping they go up; for in the way of Horonaim they raise up a cry of destruction.
• Isa 15:8 : 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the wailing thereof unto Eglaim, and the wailing thereof unto Beer-elim.
• Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord, Jehovah of hosts, call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
• Jer 4:31 : 31 For I have heard a voice as of a woman in travail, the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that gaspeth for breath, that spreadeth her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul fainteth before the murderers.
• Joel 1:14 : 14 Sanctify a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the old men [and] all the inhabitants of the land unto the house of Jehovah your God, and cry unto Jehovah.
• Amos 3:13 : 13 Hear ye, and testify against the house of Jacob, saith the Lord Jehovah, the God of hosts.
• Amos 5:27 : 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith Jehovah, whose name is the God of hosts.
• Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
• Mic 1:8 : 8 For this will I lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will make a wailing like the jackals, and a lamentation like the ostriches.
• Mic 2:4 : 4 In that day shall they take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, [and] say, We are utterly ruined: he changeth the portion of my people: how doth he remove [it] from me! to the rebellious he divideth our fields.
• Rev 18:10 : 10 standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
• Rev 18:15-16 : 15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning; 16 {G2532} saying, Woe, woe, the great city, she that was arrayed in fine linen and purple and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stone and pearl!
• Rev 18:19 : 19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, Woe, woe, the great city, wherein all that had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.