Amos 5:16

Webster's Bible (1833)

Therefore thus says Yahweh, the God of hosts, the Lord: "Wailing will be in all the broad ways; And they will say in all the streets, 'Alas! Alas!' And they will call the farmer to mourning, And those who are skillful 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, you farmers! Wail, you vineyard keepers; For the wheat and for the barley; For the harvest of the field has perished.
• Jer 9:17-20 : 17 Thus says Yahweh of Hosts, Consider you, and call for the mourning women, that they may come; and send for the skillful 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 Yahweh, you women, and let your ear receive the word of his mouth; and teach your daughters wailing, and everyone 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 passes through; neither can men hear the voice of the cattle; both the birds of the sky and the animals are fled, they are gone.
• Joel 1:8 : 8 Mourn like a virgin dressed in 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 wails 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, everyone wails, weeping abundantly. 4 Heshbon cries out, and Elealeh; their voice is heard even to Jahaz: therefore the armed men of Moab cry aloud; his soul trembles within him. 5 My heart cries out for Moab; her nobles [flee] to Zoar, to Eglath Shelishiyah: 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 of it to Eglaim, and the wailing of it to Beer-elim.
• Isa 22:12 : 12 In that day did the Lord, Yahweh 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 who brings forth her first child, the voice of the daughter of Zion, who gasps for breath, who spreads her hands, [saying], Woe is me now! for my soul faints before the murderers.
• Joel 1:14 : 14 Sanctify a fast. Call a solemn assembly. Gather the elders, And all the inhabitants of the land, to the house of Yahweh, your God, And cry to Yahweh.
• Amos 3:13 : 13 "Listen, and testify against the house of Jacob," says the Lord Yahweh, the God of hosts.
• Amos 5:27 : 27 Therefore will I cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus," says Yahweh, whose name is the God of hosts.
• Amos 8:10 : 10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, And baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, And the end of it like a bitter day.
• Mic 1:8 : 8 For this I will lament and wail; I will go stripped and naked; I will howl like the jackals, And moan like the daughters of owls.
• Mic 2:4 : 4 In that day they will take up a parable against you, And lament with a doleful lamentation, saying, 'We are utterly ruined! My people's possession is divided up. Indeed he takes it from me and assigns our fields to traitors!'"
• Rev 18:10 : 10 standing far away for the fear of her torment, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, Babylon, the strong city! For your judgment has come in one hour.'
• Rev 18:15-16 : 15 The merchants of these things, who were made rich by her, will stand far away for the fear of her torment, weeping and mourning; 16 saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, she who was dressed in fine linen, purple, and scarlet, and decked with gold and precious stones and pearls!
• Rev 18:19 : 19 They cast dust on their heads, and cried, weeping and mourning, saying, 'Woe, woe, the great city, in which all who had their ships in the sea were made rich by reason of her great wealth!' For in one hour is she made desolate.