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Amos 8:10

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8:10I will turn your festivals into funerals,31

and all your songs into funeral dirges.

I will make everyone wear funeral clothes32

and cause every head to be shaved bald.33

I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son;34

when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.35

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Footnotes

  1. 31 Heb “mourning.”
  2. 32 Heb “I will place sackcloth on all waists.” Mourners wore sackcloth (funeral clothes) as an outward expression of grief.
  3. 33 Heb “and make every head bald.” This could be understood in a variety of ways, while the ritual act of mourning typically involved shaving the head (although occasionally the hair could be torn out as a sign of mourning). Shaving the head or tearing out one’s hair was a ritual act of mourning. See Lev 21:5; Deut 14:1; Isa 3:24; 15:2; Jer 47:5; 48:37; Ezek 7:18; 27:31; Mic 1:16.
  4. 34 Heb “I will make it like the mourning for an only son.”
  5. 35 Heb “and its end will be like a bitter day.” The Hebrew preposition ךְּ (kaf) sometimes carries the force of “in every respect,” indicating identity rather than mere comparison.

The NET Bible First Edition, Copyright 1996-2005 by Biblical Studies Press

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.

Copyright 2001 Crossway Bibles

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.

Copyright 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 Biblica, Inc.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

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 that grief

like mourning for an only son

and its outcome like a bitter day.

Copyright 2017 Holman Bible Publishers

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!

Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright © 1996, 2004, 2015 by Tyndale House Foundation. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers. All rights reserved.

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.

Copyright 2012 Lexham Press

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.

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