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Even farmers will be called to mourn the dead along with those who are paid to mourn. </title><link rel="canonical" href="https://biblehub.com/catholic/amos/5-16.htm" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/15002new8.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /></head><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../vmenus/amos/5-16.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="/bmcc/amos/5-16.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="/catholic/">Bible</a> > <a href="/gntd/amos/1.htm">Amos</a> > <a href="/gntd/amos/5.htm">Chapter 5</a> > Verse 16</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div><div id="ad1"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/ad1.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../amos/5-15.htm" title="Amos 5:15">◄</a> Amos 5:16 <a href="../amos/5-17.htm" title="Amos 5:17">►</a></div></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Verse</b><a href="/nabre/amos/5.htm" class="clickchap" style="color:#552200" title="Click any translation name for full chapter">  (Click for Chapter)</a></div><div id="par"><span class="versiontext"><a href="/gntd/amos/5.htm">Good News Translation</a></span><br />And so the Sovereign LORD Almighty says, "There will be wailing and cries of sorrow in the city streets. Even farmers will be called to mourn the dead along with those who are paid to mourn. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nrsvce/amos/5.htm">New Revised Standard Version</a></span><br />Therefore thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: In all the squares there shall be wailing; and in all the streets they shall say, “Alas! alas!” They shall call the farmers to mourning, and those skilled in lamentation, to wailing;<p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/cevd/amos/5.htm">Contemporary English Version</a></span><br />This is what the LORD has sworn: Noisy crying will be heard in every town and street. Even farmers will be told to mourn for the dead, together with those who are paid to mourn. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/nabre/amos/5.htm">New American Bible</a></span><br />Therefore, thus says the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord: In every square there shall be lamentation, and in every street they shall cry, “Oh, no!” They shall summon the farmers to wail and the professional mourners to lament. <p><span class="versiontext"><a href="/drbc/amos/5.htm">Douay-Rheims Bible</a></span><br />Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.<div class="vheading2">Treasury of Scripture Knowledge</div><p class="tsk2">Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.</p><p class="hdg">the Lord.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../amos/5-27.htm">Amos 5:27</a> And I will cause you to go into captivity beyond Damascus, saith the Lord, the God of hosts is his name.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../amos/3-13.htm">Amos 3:13</a> Hear ye, and testify in the house of Jacob, saith the Lord the God of hosts:</p><p class="hdg">Wailing.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../amos/8-10.htm">Amos 8:10</a> And it shall come to pass in that day, saith the Lord God, that the sun shall go down at midday, and I will make the earth dark in the day of light:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/15-2.htm">Isaiah 15:2-5,8</a> The house is gone up, and Dibon to the high places to mourn over Nabo, and over Medaba, Moab hath howled: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard shall be shaven. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../isaiah/22-12.htm">Isaiah 22:12</a> And the Lord, the God of hosts, in that day shall call to weeping, and to mourning, to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/4-31.htm">Jeremiah 4:31</a> For I have heard the voice as of a woman in travail, anguishes as of a woman in labour of a child. The voice of the daughter of Sion, dying away, spreading her hands: Woe is me, for my soul hath fainted because of them that are slain.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/9-10.htm">Jeremiah 9:10,18-20</a> For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man that passeth through them: and they have not heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts they are gone away and departed. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../joel/1-8.htm">Joel 1:8,11,14</a> Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth. . . . </p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../micah/1-8.htm">Micah 1:8</a> And all her graven things shall be cut in pieces, and all her wages shall be burnt with fire, and I will bring to destruction all her idols: for they were gathered together of the hire of a harlot, and unto the hire of a harlot they shall return.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../micah/2-4.htm">Micah 2:4</a> Therefore thus saith the Lord: Behold I devise an evil against this family: from which you shall not withdraw your necks, and you shall not walk haughtily, for this is a very evil time.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../revelation/18-10.htm">Revelation 18:10,15,16,19</a> Standing afar off for fear of her torments, saying: Alas! alas! that great city, Babylon, that mighty city: for in one hour is thy judgment come. . . . </p><p class="hdg">such.</p><p class="tskverse"><a href="../jeremiah/9-17.htm">Jeremiah 9:17-19</a> Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste: . . . </p></div></div></div><div id="centbox"><div class="padcent"><div class="vheadingv"><b>Context</b></div><span class="hdg"><a href="/drbc/amos/5.htm">The Day of the LORD</a></span><br> <span class="reftext">16</span><span class="highl">Therefore thus saith the Lord the God of hosts the sovereign Lord: In every street there shall be wailing: and in all places that are without, they shall say: Alas, alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to lament.</span><span class="reftext">17</span>And in all vineyards there shall be wailing: because I will pass through in the midst of thee, saith the Lord.…<div class="vheading2">Cross References</div><div id="crf"><span class="crossverse"><a href="../2_chronicles/35-25.htm">2 Chronicles 35:25</a></span><br />Particularly Jeremias: whose lamentations for Josias all the singing men and singing women repeat unto this day, and it became like a law in Israel: Behold it is found written in the Lamentations.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/9-10.htm">Jeremiah 9:10</a></span><br />For the mountains I will take up weeping and lamentation, and for the beautiful places of the desert, mourning: because they are burnt up, for that there is not a man that passeth through them: and they have not heard the voice of the owner: from the fowl of the air to the beasts they are gone away and departed.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/9-17.htm">Jeremiah 9:17</a></span><br />Thus saith the Lord of hosts the God of Israel: Consider ye, and call for the mourning women, and let them come: and send to them that are wise women, and let them make haste:<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/9-18.htm">Jeremiah 9:18</a></span><br />Let them hasten and take up a lamentation for us: let our eyes shed tears, and our eyelids run down with waters.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../jeremiah/30-5.htm">Jeremiah 30:5</a></span><br />For thus saith the Lord: We have heard a voice of terror: there is fear and no peace.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../hosea/4-3.htm">Hosea 4:3</a></span><br />Therefore shall the land mourn, and every one that dwelleth in it shall languish with the beasts of the field, and with the fowls of the air: yea, the fishes of the sea also shall be gathered together.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../joel/1-11.htm">Joel 1:11</a></span><br />The husbandmen are ashamed, the vinedressers have howled for the wheat, and for the barley, because the harvest of the field is perished.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../joel/1-15.htm">Joel 1:15</a></span><br />Ah, ah, ah, for the day: because the day of the Lord is at hand, and it shall come like destruction from the mighty.<span class="p"><br /><br /></span><span class="crossverse"><a href="../amos/8-3.htm">Amos 8:3</a></span><br />And he said: What seest thou, Amos? 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