Amos 8:10

And I will turn your chagim into mourning, 1 and all your shirot into lamentation; 1 and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, 1 and baldness upon every rosh; 1 and I will make it as the mourning of a yachid (only son), 1 and the end thereof as a yom mar (bitter day). 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The King 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.

In Context

9And it shall come to pass in that Yom, 1 saith Adonoi Hashem, 1 that I will cause the shemesh to go down at noon, 1 and I will darken ha'aretz in the yom ohr (day light); 1

11Hinei, the yamim come, saith Adonoi Hashem, 1 that I will send a ra'av (famine) in the land, 1 not a ra'av (famine) of lechem, nor a thirst for mayim, 1 but of hearing the Divrei Hashem; 1

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Cross References

Deuteronomy 16:14And thou shalt rejoice in thy chag (feast), thou, and thy ben, and thy bat, and thy eved, and thy amah, and the Levi, the ger, and the yatom (orphan), and the almanah, that are within thy she'arim.

2 Samuel 13:28Now Avshalom had commanded his avadim, saying, Mark ye now when Amnonʼs lev is high with yayin, and when I say unto you, Strike Amnon; then kill him, fear not; have not I commanded you? Be chazak (courageous), and be bnei chayil.

Job 20:23When he is about to fill his beten, 1 He shall cast the charon af (fury of His wrath) upon him, 1 and shall rain it upon him while he is eating. 1

Isaiah 15:2He is gone up to the [idol] temple, and to Divon, 1 the + 15:2 idolatrous high places, to weep: 1 Moav shall howl over Nevo, and over Medeva; 1 on all their rosh shall be shaved heads, 1 and every zakan (beard) cut off. 1

Isaiah 22:12And in that day did Adonoi Hashem Tzva'os 1 call to weeping, and to wailing, 1 and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth; 1

Jeremiah 48:37For every rosh shall be shaved, and every zakan (beard) cut: upon all the hands shall be slashes, and upon the loins sackcloth.

Matthew Henry on Amos 8:5-11

The Sin and Doom of Oppressors. ( b. c. 785.) 4 Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail, 5 Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit? 6 That we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of shoes; yea, and sell the refuse of the wheat? 7 The Lord hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget… Read the whole commentary →

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