OLD TESTAMENT

Amos 5:1

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Listen to this word which I take up for a lamentation over you, O house of Israel:

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Verse 1. Lamentation. Such canticles were usual. Isaiah 14.—Israel. It no longer formed a separate kingdom. Calmet.—When the people fear no evil, God laments for them. Worthington.

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