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Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

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ASV

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

KJV

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

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OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְהָפַכְתִּ֨יve.ha.fakh.Tiand I will turnH2015 →
חַגֵּיכֶ֜םcha.gei.Khemfeasts yourH2282 →
לְאֵ֗בֶלle.'E.velinto mourningH60 →
וְכָל־ve.kholand allH3605 →
שִֽׁירֵיכֶם֙shi.rei.Khemsongs yourH7892 →
לְקִינָ֔הle.ki.Nahinto lamentationH7015 →
וְהַעֲלֵיתִ֤יve.ha.'a.lei.Tiand I will bring upH5927 →
עַל־'al-onH5921 →
כָּל־kol-allH3605 →
מָתְנַ֙יִם֙ma.te.Na.yimloinsH4975 →
שָׂ֔קSaksackclothH8242 →
וְעַל־ve.'al-and onH5921 →
כָּל־kol-everyH3605 →
רֹ֖אשׁroshheadH7218 →
קָרְחָ֑הka.re.ChahbaldnessH7144 →
וְשַׂמְתִּ֙יהָ֙ve.sam.Ti.haand I will make itH7760 →
כְּאֵ֣בֶלke.'E.vellike [the] mourning ofH60 →
יָחִ֔ידya.Chidan only [son]H3173 →
וְאַחֲרִיתָ֖הּve.'a.cha.ri.Tahand end itsH319 →
כְּי֥וֹםke.Yom[will be] like a dayH3117 →
מָֽר׃MarbitterH4751 →

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Jeremiah 6:26O daughter of my people, dress yourselves in sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn with bitter wailing, as you would for an only son, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.Zechariah 12:10Then I will pour out on the house of David and on the people of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and prayer, and they will look on Me, the One they have pierced. They will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child, and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.Lamentations 5:15Joy has left our hearts; our dancing has turned to mourning.Jeremiah 48:37For every head is shaved and every beard is clipped; on every hand is a gash, and around every waist is sackcloth.Ezekiel 7:18They will put on sackcloth, and terror will overwhelm them. Shame will cover all their faces, and all their heads will be shaved.Job 20:23When he has filled his stomach, God will vent His fury upon him, raining it down on him as he eats.Jeremiah 2:19Your own evil will discipline you; your own apostasies will reprimand you. Consider and realize how evil and bitter it is for you to forsake the LORD your God and to have no fear of Me,” declares the Lord GOD of Hosts.Ezekiel 7:2“O son of man, this is what the Lord GOD says to the land of Israel: ‘The end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.Isaiah 22:12On that day the Lord GOD of Hosts called for weeping and wailing, for shaven heads and the wearing of sackcloth.Isaiah 3:24Instead of fragrance there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of styled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; instead of beauty, shame.Isaiah 15:2–3Dibon goes up to its temple to weep at its high places. Moab wails over Nebo, as well as over Medeba. Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off.Luke 7:12–13As He approached the town gate, He saw a dead man being carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her.Hosea 2:11I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths—all her appointed feasts.Micah 1:16Shave yourselves bald and cut off your hair in mourning for your precious children; make yourselves as bald as an eagle, for they will go from you into exile.Jeremiah 30:5Yes, this is what the LORD says: “A cry of panic is heard—a cry of terror, not of peace.Amos 8:8Will not the land quake for this, and all its dwellers mourn? All of it will swell like the Nile; it will surge and then subside like the Nile in Egypt.Luke 6:25Woe to you who are well fed now, for you will hunger. Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.2 Samuel 13:28–31Now Absalom had ordered his young men, “Watch Amnon until his heart is merry with wine, and when I order you to strike Amnon down, you are to kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and valiant!”

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The Prophet Amos — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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