Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Holman Bible
Listen to this message that I am singing for you, a lament,
International Standard Version
"Hear this accusation that I am bringing against you: "A dirge, house of Israel:
A Conservative Version
Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
American Standard Version
Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
Amplified
Darby Translation
Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel.
Julia Smith Translation
Hear ye this word which I lift up to you, a lamentation, O house of Israel.
King James 2000
Hear you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Hear this word that I [am] going to intone over you [as] a lament, O house of Israel!
Modern King James verseion
Hear this Word which I take up against you, a dirge, O house of Israel.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Hear this word, O ye house of Israel. And why? I must make this moan for you:
NET Bible
Listen to this funeral song I am ready to sing about you, family of Israel:
New Heart English Bible
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
The Emphasized Bible
Hear ye this word, which, I, am taking up concerning you - even a dirge, O house of Israel.
Webster
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
World English Bible
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
Youngs Literal Translation
Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:
Interlinear
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Dabar
References
Fausets
Word Count of 20 Translations in Amos 5:1
Verse Info
Context Readings
A Lament And Call To Repentance
1 Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel. 2 The virgin of Israel has been made low, never again to be lifted up: she is stretched out by herself on her land; there is no one to put her on her feet again.
Cross References
Ezekiel 19:1
Take up now a song of grief for the ruler of Israel, and say,
Jeremiah 7:29
Let your hair be cut off, O Jerusalem, and let it go, and let a song of grief go up on the open hilltops; for the Lord is turned away from the generation of his wrath and has given them up.
Jeremiah 9:10
Give yourselves to weeping, crying out in sorrow for the mountains; and for the fields of the waste land send up a song of grief, because they are burned up, so that no one goes through; there is no sound of cattle; the bird of the heavens and the beast are in flight and are gone.
Jeremiah 9:17
This is what the Lord of armies has said: Take thought and send for the weeping women, so that they may come; and send for the wise women, so that they may come:
Jeremiah 9:20
But even now, give ear to the word of the Lord, O you women; let your ears be open to the word of his mouth, training your daughters to give cries of sorrow, everyone teaching her neighbour a song of grief.
Ezekiel 19:14
And fire has gone out from her rod, causing the destruction of her branches, so that there is no strong rod in her to be the ruler's rod of authority. This is a song of grief, and it was for a song of grief.
Ezekiel 26:17
And they will send up a song of grief for you, and say to you, What destruction has come on you, how are you cut off from the sea, the noted town, which was strong in the sea, she and her people, causing the fear of them to come on all the dry land!
Ezekiel 27:2
And you, son of man, make a song of grief for Tyre;
Ezekiel 27:27-32
Your wealth and your goods, the things in which you do trade, your seamen and those guiding your ships, those who make your boards watertight, and those who do business with your goods, and all your men of war who are in you, with all who have come together in you, will go down into the heart of the seas in the day of your downfall.
Ezekiel 28:12
Son of man, make a song of grief for the king of Tyre, and say to him, This is what the Lord has said: You are all-wise and completely beautiful;
Ezekiel 32:2
Son of man, make a song of grief for Pharaoh, king of Egypt, and say to him, Young lion of the nations, destruction has come on you; and you were like a sea-beast in the seas, sending out bursts of water, troubling the waters with your feet, making their streams dirty.
Ezekiel 32:16
It is a song of grief, and people will give voice to it, the daughters of the nations will give voice to it, even for Egypt and all her people, says the Lord.
Amos 3:1
Give ear to this word which the Lord has said against you, O children of Israel, against all the family which I took up out of the land of Egypt, saying,
Amos 4:1
Give ear to this word, you cows of Bashan, who are in the hill of Samaria, by whom the poor are kept down, and those in need are crushed; who say to their lords, Get out the wine and give us drink.
Amos 5:16
So these are the words of the Lord, the God of armies, the Lord: There will be weeping in all the open spaces; and in all the streets they will say, Sorrow! sorrow! and they will get in the farmer to the weeping, and the makers of sad songs to give cries of grief.
Micah 2:4
In that day this saying will be said about you, and this song of grief will be made: The heritage of my people is measured out, and there is no one to give it back; those who have made us prisoners have taken our fields from us, and complete destruction has come to us.