Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:
“Wailing will be in all the wide ways.
They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’
They will call the farmer to mourning,
and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE
Amos 5:16 in context
Amos 5:13–19
13
Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time,
for it is an evil time.
14
Seek good, and not evil,
that you may live;
and so the LORD, the God of Armies, will be with you,
as you say.
15
Hate evil, love good,
and establish justice in the courts.
It may be that the LORD, the God of Armies, will be gracious to the remnant of Joseph.”
16
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Therefore the LORD, the God of Armies, the Lord, says:
“Wailing will be in all the wide ways.
They will say in all the streets, ‘Alas! Alas!’
They will call the farmer to mourning,
and those who are skillful in lamentation to wailing.
17
In all vineyards there will be wailing,
for I will pass through the middle of you,” says the LORD.
18
“Woe to you who desire the day of the LORD!
Why do you long for the day of the LORD?
It is darkness,
and not light.
19
As if a man fled from a lion,
and a bear met him;
or he went into the house and leaned his hand on the wall,
and a snake bit him.
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