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Amos 8:10

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10I will turn your feasts into mourningab

and all your songs into lamentation;ac

I will cause everyoneC to wear sackclothad

and every head to be shaved.ae

I will make that grief

like mourning for an only sonaf

and its outcome like a bitter day.

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Footnotes

  1. C every waist

Cross references

  1. abJb 20:23; Am 5:21
  2. acLm 5:15; Hs 2:11; Jms 4:9
  3. adEzk 7:18
  4. aeIs 22:12; Jr 48:37; Ezk 7:18
  5. afZch 12:10–14

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

I will turn your feasts into mourning

and all your songs into lamentation;

I will bring sackcloth on every waist

and baldness on every head;

I will make it like the mourning for an only son

and the end of it like a bitter day.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

I will turn your religious festivals into mourning

and all your singing into weeping.

I will make all of you wear sackcloth

and shave your heads.

I will make that time like mourning for an only son

and the end of it like a bitter day.

NLTNew Living Translation

I will turn your celebrations into times of mourning

and your singing into weeping.

You will wear funeral clothes

and shave your heads to show your sorrow—

as if your only son had died.

How very bitter that day will be!

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all of your songs into lament, and I will put sackcloth on all loins and baldness on every head. And I will make it like the mourning for an only child, and its end like a bitter day.

KJV 1900King James Version

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.