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Amos Chapter 5 verse 1 Holy Bible

ASV Amos 5:1

Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
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BBE Amos 5:1

Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.
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DARBY Amos 5:1

Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel.
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KJV Amos 5:1

Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
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WBT Amos 5:1


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WEB Amos 5:1

Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
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YLT Amos 5:1

Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 1-ch. 6:14. - ยง 8. Third address: the prophet utters a lamentation over the fall of Israel. (Vers. 1-3.) He calls her to repentance, while he shows wherein she has declined from the right way. To make this plain, he contrasts God's power and majesty with the people's iniquity, instances of which he gives (vers. 4-12). The only condition of safety is amendment (vers. 13-15); and as they refuse to reform, they shall have cause to lament (vers. 16, 17). This threat is enforced by the two emphatic "woes" that follow, the first of which demonstrates the baselessness of their trust in their covenant relation to God (vers. 18-27); the second denounces the careless lives of the chiefs, who, revelling in luxury, believed not in the coming judgment (Amos 6:1-6). Therefore they shall go into captivity, and the kingdom shall be utterly overthrown (vers. 7-11), because they act iniquitously and are self-confident (vers. 12-14). Verse 1. - Hear ye this word. To show the certainty of the judgment and his own feeling about it, the prophet utters his prophecy in the form of a dirge (kinah, 2 Samuel 1:17; 2 Chronicles 35:25). Which I take up against you; or, which I raise over you, as if the end had come. O house of Israel; in the vocative. The Vulgate has, Domus Israel cecidit; so the LXX. But the present Hebrew text is most suitable, making the dirge begin at ver. 2. The ten tribes are addressed as in ver. 6.

Ellicott's Commentary