Amos 5:16

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of 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 ye ashamed, O ye husbandmen; howl, O ye vinedressers, for the wheat and for the barley; because the harvest of the field is perished.
• Jer 9:17-20 : 17 Thus saith the LORD of hosts, Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for cunning 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 spoiled! we are greatly confounded, because we have forsaken the land, because our dwellings have cast us out. 20 Yet hear the word of the LORD, O ye women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth, and teach your daughters wailing, and every one her neighbour lamentation.
• Jer 9:10 : 10 For the mountains will I take up a weeping and wailing, and for the habitations of the wilderness a lamentation, because they are burned up, so that none can pass through them; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the fowl of the heavens and the beast 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 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off. 3 In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every one shall howl, weeping abundantly. 4 And Heshbon shall cry, and Elealeh: their voice shall be heard even unto Jahaz: therefore the armed soldiers of Moab shall cry out; his life shall be grievous unto him. 5 My heart shall cry out for Moab; his fugitives shall flee unto Zoar, an heifer of three years old: for by the mounting up of Luhith with weeping shall they go it up; for in the way of Horonaim they shall raise up a cry of destruction.
• Isa 15:8 : 8 For the cry is gone round about the borders of Moab; the howling thereof unto Eglaim, and the howling thereof unto Beerelim.
• Isa 22:12 : 12 And in that day did the Lord GOD 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, and the anguish as of her that bringeth forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, that bewaileth herself, that spreadeth her hands, saying, Woe is me now! for my soul is wearied because of murderers.
• Joel 1:14 : 14 Sanctify ye a fast, call a solemn assembly, gather the elders and all the inhabitants of the land into the house of the LORD your God, and cry unto the LORD,
• Amos 3:13 : 13 Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord GOD, the God of hosts,
• Amos 5:27 : 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the LORD, 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 up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
• Mic 1:8 : 8 Therefore I will wail and howl, I will go stripped and naked: I will make a wailing like the dragons, and mourning as the owls.
• Mic 2:4 : 4 In that day shall one take up a parable against you, and lament with a doleful lamentation, and say, We be utterly spoiled: he hath changed the portion of my people: how hath he removed it from me! turning away he hath divided our fields.
• Rev 18:10 : 10 Standing afar off for the fear of her torment, saying, Alas, alas, that great city Babylon, that mighty city! for in one hour is thy judgment come.
• Rev 18:15-16 : 15 The merchants of these things, which were made rich by her, shall stand afar off for the fear of her torment, weeping and wailing, 16 And saying, Alas, alas, that great city, that was clothed in fine linen, and purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold, and precious stones, and pearls!
• Rev 18:19 : 19 And they cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and wailing, saying, Alas, alas, that great city, wherein were made rich all that had ships in the sea by reason of her costliness! for in one hour is she made desolate.