Amos 5:1
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.In other versions
Hear ye this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
ASV
Give ear to this word, my song of sorrow over you, O children of Israel.
BBE
Hear this word, a lamentation, which I take up against you, O house of Israel.
DBY
Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel.
WEB
Hear this word that I am bearing to you, A lamentation, O house of Israel:
YLT
Hear all of you this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
ENG
Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
WBT
Hear this word, O house of Israel, this lamentation I take up against you:
BSB
In context
1Hear ye this word which I take up against you, even a lamentation, O house of Israel.
2The virgin of Israel is fallen; she shall no more rise: she is forsaken upon her land; there is none to raise her up.
3For thus saith the Lord GOD; The city that went out by a thousand shall leave an hundred, and that which went forth by an hundred shall leave ten, to the house of Israel.