Cross references

Amos 5:16

Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says:

“There will be wailing in all the public squares

and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets.

The farmer will be summoned to mourn,

and the mourners to wail.

Amos 5:16 BSB

Amos 5:16 has 17 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 2 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Joel 1:11 (5 votes) and Jeremiah 9:17–20 (4 votes). 15 other verses point back to it. It links with 8 other books, from Job 3 to Revelation 18.

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Which verses does Amos 5:16 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Joel 1:115 votes

    Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.

  2. This is what the LORD of Hosts says: “Take note, and summon the wailing women; send for the most skillful among them. Let them come quickly and take up a lament over us, that our eyes may overflow with tears, and our eyelids may gush with water. …

  3. I will take up a weeping and wailing for the mountains, a dirge over the wilderness pasture, for they have been scorched so no one passes through, and the lowing of cattle is not heard. Both the birds of the air and the beasts have fled; they have gone away.

  4. Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off. In its streets they wear sackcloth; on the rooftops and in the public squares they all wail, falling down weeping. …

  5. For their outcry echoes to the border of Moab. Their wailing reaches Eglaim; it is heard in Beer-elim.

  6. On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.

  7. For I hear a cry like a woman in labor, a cry of anguish like one bearing her first child—the cry of the Daughter of Zion gasping for breath, stretching out her hands to say, “Woe is me, for my soul faints before the murderers!”

  8. Joel 1:82 votes

    Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

  9. Joel 1:142 votes

    Consecrate a fast; proclaim a solemn assembly! Gather the elders and all the residents of the land to the house of the LORD your God, and cry out to the LORD.

  10. Amos 3:132 votes

    Hear and testify against the house of Jacob, declares the Lord GOD, the God of Hosts.

  11. Amos 5:272 votes

    Therefore I will send you into exile beyond Damascus,” says the LORD, whose name is the God of Hosts.

  12. Amos 8:102 votes

    I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

  13. Micah 1:82 votes
  14. Micah 2:42 votes

Which verses point to Amos 5:16?

The 10 strongest of 15.