Amos 8:10

WEB

¹⁰I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.

KJV

¹⁰And 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.

BSB

¹⁰I 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.

FBV

¹⁰I will turn your festivals into times of mourning, your happy songs into laments. I will make you wear sackcloth and shave your heads.^[+] I will make your mourning like that for an only son. At the end of it all it will be a bitter day.

Extra References

Jeremiah 6:26

²⁶Daughter of my people, clothe yourself with sackcloth, and wallow in ashes! Mourn, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for the destroyer will suddenly come on us.

Zechariah 12:10

¹⁰I will pour on David’s house and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of supplication. They will look to me^[+] they have pierced; and they shall mourn for him as one mourns for his only son, and will grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for his firstborn.

Ezekiel 7:18

¹⁸They will also clothe themselves with sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on all faces, and baldness on all their heads.

Job 20:23

²³When he is about to fill his belly, God will cast the fierceness of his wrath on him. It will rain on him while he is eating.

Jeremiah 48:37

³⁷For every head is bald, and every beard clipped. There are cuttings on all the hands, and sackcloth on the waist.

Hosea 2:11

¹¹I will also cause all her celebrations to cease: her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her solemn assemblies.

Isaiah 15:2-3

²They have gone up to Bayith, and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and over Medeba. Baldness is on all of their heads. Every beard is cut off. ³In their streets, they clothe themselves in sackcloth. In their streets and on their housetops, everyone wails, weeping abundantly.

Luke 7:12-13

¹²Now when he came near to the gate of the city, behold, one who was dead was carried out, the only born^[+] son of his mother, and she was a widow. Many people of the city were with her. ¹³When the Lord saw her, he had compassion on her and said to her, “Don’t cry.”

Isaiah 21:3-4

³Therefore my thighs are filled with anguish. Pains have seized me, like the pains of a woman in labor. I am in so much pain that I can’t hear. I am so dismayed that I can’t see. ⁴My heart flutters. Horror has frightened me. The twilight that I desired has been turned into trembling for me.

Nahum 1:10

¹⁰For entangled like thorns, and drunken as with their drink, they are consumed utterly like dry stubble.