• Amos 5:16
    New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures

    • 16 “Therefore this is what Jehovah the God of armies, Jehovah, says:

      ‘In all the public squares there will be wailing,

      And in all the streets they will say, “Alas, alas!”

      They will call on the farmers to mourn

      And the professional mourners to wail.’

  • Amos 5:16
    The Bible in Living English

    • 16* So Jehovah the God of Armies, the Lord, says, In all squares shall be wailing and in all streets they shall say “Alack, clack!” and issue a call of mourning to the farmer and wailing to experts in lamentation,

  • Amos 5:16
    American Standard Version

    • 16 Therefore thus saith Jehovah, the God of hosts, the Lord: Wailing shall be in all the broad ways; and they shall say in all the streets, Alas! Alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful in lamentation to wailing.

  • Amos 5:16
    The Emphasized Bible

    • 16 Therefore Thus saith Yahweh, God of hosts, My Lord, In all broadways shall be lamentation, And in all streets shall they say, Alas! Alas! And they shall call the husbandman unto the mourning, And unto the lamentation them who know a wailing song;

  • Amos 5:16
    King James Version

    • 16 Therefore the LORD, the God of hosts, the Lord, saith thus; Wailing shall be in all streets; and they shall say in all the highways, Alas! alas! and they shall call the husbandman to mourning, and such as are skilful of lamentation to wailing.