Amos 5:16 - Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

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the LORD". One of the 134 places where the Sopherirm say they altered "Jehovah" (App-4.) of the primitive test to "Adenai" (App-4. See App-32.

streets. open places.

skilful of lamentation: i.e. the professional mourners. Compare 2 Chronicles 35:25.Ezekiel 12:5.Jeremiah 9:17.

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Amos 5:16

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.