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Amos 5 16

For this is what the Lord, the Lord God of power says: There will be weeping in the city squares and wailing in the streets. They will call even the farmers to grieve, as well as the professional mourners.

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NLT Amos 5:16Therefore, this is what the Lord, the Lord God of Heaven’s Armies, says: “There will be crying in all the public squares and mourning in every street. Call for the farmers to weep with you, and summon professional mourners to wail.
NKJ Amos 5:16Therefore the Lord God of hosts, the Lord, says this: “There shall be wailing in all streets, And they shall say in all the highways, ‘Alas! Alas!’ They shall call the farmer to mourning, And skillful lamenters to wailing.
LSV Amos 5:16Therefore, thus said YHWH, God of Hosts, the Lord: “Lamentation is in all broad places, and in all out-places they say, Oh! Oh! And called the farmer to mourning, and the skillful of wailing to lamentation.