Amos 5:16

16 Therefore thus says the Lord, ^gthe God of hosts, the Lord:

	“In all the squares jthere shall be wailing,
		and in all the streets they shall say, ‘Alas! Alas!’
	They shall call the farmers to mourning
		and jto wailing those who are skilled in lamentation,

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Amos 5:14
Seek good, and not evil, that you may live; and so the LORD, the God of hosts, will be with you, as you have said.

Jeremiah 9:17–18
Thus says the LORD of hosts: “Consider, and call for the mourning women to come; send for the skillful women to come; let them make haste and raise a wailing over us, that our eyes may run down with tears and our eyelids flow with water.

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