Amos 5:1

Geneva Bible (1560)

Heare ye this worde, which I lift vp vpon you, euen a lamentation of the house of Israel.

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  • Ezek 19:1 : 1 Thou also, take vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel,
  • Jer 7:29 : 29 Cut off thine heare, O Ierusalem, and cast it away, and take vp a complaint on the hie places: for the Lorde hath reiected and forsaken the generation of his wrath.
  • Jer 9:10 : 10 Vpon the mountaines will I take vp a weeping and a lamentation, and vpon the fayre places of the wildernes a mourning, because they are burnt vp: so that none can passe through them, neyther can men heare the voyce of the flocke: both the foule of the aire, and the beast are fled away and gone.
  • Jer 9:17 : 17 Thus sayeth the Lorde of hostes, Take heede, and call for the mourning women, that they may come, and send for skilfull women that they may come,
  • Jer 9:20 : 20 Therefore heare the worde of the Lord, O ye women, and let your eares regard the words of his mouth, & teach your daughters to mourne, and euery one her neighbour to lament.
  • Ezek 19:14 : 14 And fire is gone out of a rod of her branches, which hath deuoured her fruite, so that she hath no strong rod to be a scepter to rule: this is a lamentation and shalbe for a lamentation.
  • Ezek 26:17 : 17 And they shall take vp a lamentation for thee, and say to thee, Howe art thou destroyed, that wast inhabited of the sea men, the renoumed citie which was strong in the sea, both she and her inhabitants, which cause their feare to be on all that haunt therein!
  • Ezek 27:2 : 2 Sonne of ma, take vp a lametation for Tyrus,
  • Ezek 27:27-32 : 27 Thy riches and thy faires, thy marchandise, thy mariners and pilotes, thy calkers, and the occupiers of thy marchandise & al thy men of warre that are in thee, and all thy multitude which is in the middes of thee, shall fall in the middes of the sea in the day of thy ruine. 28 The suburbes shall shake at the sound of the crie of thy pilotes. 29 And all that handle the ore, the mariners and al the pilots of the sea shal come downe from their shippes, and shall stand vpon the land, 30 And shall cause their voyce to be heard against thee, and shal cry bitterly, and shal cast dust vpon their heads, & wallow theselues in the ashes. 31 They shal plucke off their heare for thee & gird them with a sackecloth, and they shal weepe for thee with sorow of heart & bitter mourning. 32 And in their mourning, they shal take vp a lametation for thee, saying, What citie is like Tyrus, so destroied in the middes of the sea!
  • Ezek 28:12 : 12 Sonne of man, take vp a lamentation vpon the King of Tyrus, and say vnto him, Thus sayeth the Lorde God, Thou sealest vp the summe, and art full of wisedome and perfite in beautie.
  • Ezek 32:2 : 2 Sonne of man, take vp a lamentation for Pharaoh King of Egypt, and say vnto him, Thou art like a lyon of the nations and art as a dragon in the sea: thou castedst out thy riuers and troubledst the waters with thy feete, and stampedst in their riuers.
  • Ezek 32:16 : 16 This is the mourning wherewith they shall lament her: the daughters of the nations shall lament her: they shall lament for Egypt, and for all her multitude, sayeth the Lord God.
  • Amos 3:1 : 1 Heare this worde that the Lord pronounceth against you, O children of Israel, euen against the whole familie which I brought vp fro the land of Egypt, saying,
  • Amos 4:1 : 1 Heare this worde, ye kine of Bashan that are in the mountaine of Samaria, which oppresse the poore, & destroy the needie, and they say to their masters, Bring, and let vs drinke.
  • Amos 5:16 : 16 Therfore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord saith thus, Mourning shalbe in all streetes: & they shal say in al the hie wayes, Alas, alas: & they shal call the husbandman to lamentation, and such as can mourne, to mourning.
  • Mic 2:4 : 4 In that daye shall they take vp a parable against you, and lament with a dolefull lamentation, and say, We be vtterly wasted: hee hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he taken it away to restore it vnto mee? he hath deuided our fieldes.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 5:2-4
    3 verses
    82%

    2The virgine Israel is fallen, and shall no more rise: shee is left vpon her lande, and there is none to raise her vp.

    3For thus saith ye Lord God, The citie which went out by a thousand, shal leaue an hundreth: and that which went forth by an hundreth, shal leaue ten to the house of Israel.

    4For thus saith the Lorde vnto the house of Israel, Seeke ye me, and ye shal liue.

  • 1Heare ye the worde of the Lord that he speaketh vnto you, O house of Israel.

  • 1Thou also, take vp a lamentation for the princes of Israel,

  • 4Heare ye the word of the Lord, O house of Iaakob, and all the families of the house of Israel.

  • 1Heare this worde that the Lord pronounceth against you, O children of Israel, euen against the whole familie which I brought vp fro the land of Egypt, saying,

  • 20Declare this in the house of Iaakob, and publish it in Iudah, saying,

  • 1O ye Priestes, heare this, and hearken ye, O house of Israel, and giue ye eare, O house of the King: for iudgement is towarde you, because you haue bene a snare on Mizpah, and a net spred vpon Tabor.

  • 11For the house of Israel, and the house of Iudah haue grieuously trespassed against me, saith the Lord.

  • 1(14:2) O Israel, returne vnto the Lord thy God: for thou hast fallen by thine iniquitie.

  • 1Heare the worde of the Lord, ye children of Israel: for the Lord hath a controuersie with the inhabitants of the lande, because there is no trueth nor mercie nor knowledge of God in the lande.

  • Amos 5:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16Therfore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord saith thus, Mourning shalbe in all streetes: & they shal say in al the hie wayes, Alas, alas: & they shal call the husbandman to lamentation, and such as can mourne, to mourning.

    17And in al the vines shalbe lamentation: for I wil passe through thee, saith the Lord.

  • 16Now therefore heare thou the word of the Lord. Thou sayest, Prophecie not against Israel, & speake nothing against the house of Izhak.

  • 13Heare, and testifie in the house of Iaakob, saith the Lord God, the God of hostes.

  • 5That I may take the house of Israel in their owne heart, because they are all departed from me through their idoles.

  • 15Loe, I will bring a nation vpon you from farre, O house of Israel, saith the Lord, which is a mightie nation, and an ancient nation, a nation whose language thou knowest not, neither vnderstandest what they say.

  • 1The word of ye Lord came to me againe, saying,

  • 9This is in mine cares, saith the Lorde of hostes. Surely many houses shall be desolate, euen great, and faire without inhabitant.

  • 5And the pride of Israel doth testifie to his face: therefore shal Israel and Ephraim fall in their iniquitie: Iudah also shall fall with them.

  • Jer 3:20-21
    2 verses
    74%

    20But as a woman rebelleth against her husband: so haue yee rebelled against me, O house of Israel, sayeth the Lord.

    21A voice was heard vpon the hie places, weeping and supplications of the children of Israel: for they haue peruerted their way, and forgotten the Lord their God.

  • 7Surely the vineyard of the Lord of hostes is the house of Israel, and the men of Iudah are his pleasant plant, and hee looked for iudgement, but beholde oppression: for righteousnesse, but beholde a crying.

  • 14But behold, I wil raise vp against you a nation, O house of Israel, sayeth the Lorde God of hostes: and they shal afflict you, from the entring in of Hamath vnto the riuer of the wildernes.

  • 1Moreouer, the woorde of the Lord came vnto me, saying,

  • 1Woe to them that are at ease in Zion and trust in the moutaine of Samaria, which were famous at the beginning of the nations: and the house of Israel came to them.

  • 1The burden of the valley of vision. What aileth thee nowe that thou art wholy gone vp vnto the house toppes?

  • 1The burden of the worde of the Lorde vpon Israel, sayth the Lorde, which spred the heauens, and layed the foundation of the earth, and formed the spirite of man within him.

  • 19O noble Israel, hee is slane vpon thy hie places: how are the mightie ouerthrowen!

  • 8Mourne like a virgine girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.

  • 1The worde of the Lord came vnto me againe, saying,

  • 11And say vnto the house of the King of Iudah, Heare ye the worde of the Lorde.

  • 2Heare, O heauens, and hearken, O earth: for the Lorde hath sayde, I haue nourished and brought vp children, but they haue rebelled against me.

  • 1The worde of the Lord came againe vnto me, saying,

  • 15Heare and giue eare, be not proude: for the Lord hath spoken it.

  • 20Therefore heare the worde of the Lord, O ye women, and let your eares regard the words of his mouth, & teach your daughters to mourne, and euery one her neighbour to lament.

  • 1Heare yee this, O house of Iaakob, which are called by the name of Israel, and are come out of the waters of Iudah: which sweare by the Name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousnesse.

  • 8Therefore I will mourne and howle: I wil goe without clothes, and naked: I will make lamentation like the dragons, and mourning as the ostriches.

  • 1And the worde of the Lorde came vnto mee, saying,

  • 5For the wickednes of Iaakob is all this, & for the sinnes of the house of Israel: what is the wickednes of Iaakob? Is not Samaria? & which are the hie places of Iudah? Is not Ierusalem?

  • 12Therefore, thus wil I do vnto thee, O Israel: and because I wil doe this vnto thee, prepare to meete thy God, O Israel.

  • 10Heare the worde of the Lord, O ye Gentiles, and declare in the yles afarre off, and say, Hee that scattered Israel, wil gather him and wil keepe him, as a shepheard doeth his flocke.

  • 1Againe the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,

  • 1The worde of the Lorde also came vnto me, saying,

  • 1And ye word of ye Lord came vnto me, saying,

  • 5And the Spirite of the Lord fell vpon me, and said vnto me, Speake, Thus saith the Lorde, O ye house of Israel, this haue ye said, and I know that which riseth vp of your mindes.

  • 1Hearken ye nowe what the Lord sayth, Arise thou, and contende before the mountaines, and let the hilles heare thy voyce.

  • 9Ephraim shall be desolate in the day of rebuke: among the tribes of Israel haue I caused to knowe the trueth.

  • 14Againe the worde of the Lorde came vnto me, saying,