16 Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord saith thus, Mourning shall be in all streets: and they shall say in all the high ways, Alas, alas: and they shall call the [a]husbandman to lamentation, and such as can mourn, to mourning.

17 And in all the vines shall be lamentation: for I will pass through thee, saith the Lord.

18 Woe unto you, that [b]desire the day of the Lord: what have you to do with it? the day of the Lord is darkness and not light,

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 5:16 So that all degrees shall have matter of lamentation for the great plagues.
  2. Amos 5:18 Thus he speaketh, because the wicked and hypocrites said they were content to abide God’s judgments, whereas the godly tremble and fear, Jer. 30:7; Joel 2:2, 11; Zeph. 1:15.

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