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Amos 8:10

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.

KJV

et convertam festivitates vestras in luctum, et omnia cantica vestra in planctum, et inducam super omne dorsum vestrum saccum, et super omne caput calvitium : et ponam eam quasi luctum unigeniti, et novissima ejus quasi diem amarum.

Vulgate

καὶ μεταστρέψω τὰς ἑορτὰς ὑμῶν εἰς πένθος, καὶ πάσας τὰς ᾠδὰς ὑμῶν εἰς θρῆνον, καὶ ἀναβιβῶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν ὀσφὺν σάκκον, καὶ ἐπὶ πᾶσαν κεφαλὴν φαλάκρωμα, καὶ θήσομαι αὐτὸν ὡς πένθος ἀγαπητοῦ, καὶ τοὺς μετ’ αὐτοῦ ὡς ἡμέραν ὀδύνης.

LXX

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.

ASV

וְ/הָפַכְתִּ֨י חַגֵּי/כֶ֜ם לְ/אֵ֗בֶל וְ/כָל שִֽׁירֵי/כֶם֙ לְ/קִינָ֔ה וְ/הַעֲלֵיתִ֤י עַל כָּל מָתְנַ֨יִם֙ שָׂ֔ק וְ/עַל כָּל רֹ֖אשׁ קָרְחָ֑ה וְ/שַׂמְתִּ֨י/הָ֙ כְּ/אֵ֣בֶל יָחִ֔יד וְ/אַחֲרִיתָ֖/הּ כְּ/י֥וֹם מָֽר

Hebrew

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In the original Hebrew

17 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.

אֵ֖בֶל
'bl
noun · 24×
הָפַ֣ךְ
hpk
verb · 94×
הּ
h
noun · 61×
ו
v
noun · 47×
חַ֥ג
chg
noun · 62×
י
y
adjective · 12×
יּ֣וֹם
yvm
noun · 2285×
יַּ֥עַל
y'l
verb · 885×
יָּ֥שֶׂם
yshm
verb · 581×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
מַר
mr
verb · 39×
עַל
'l
noun · 5732×
קִינָ֔ה
qynh
noun · 18×
קָרְחָ֔ה
qrchh
noun · 11×
רֹ֣אשׁ
r'sh
noun · 593×
שִׁ֥יר
shyr
noun · 91×
שַׂקִּ֔ים
shqym
noun · 48×

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

§2269The fifth commandment forbids doing anything with the intention of indirectly bringing about a person's death. the moral law prohibits exposing someone to mortal danger without grave reason, as well as refusing assistance to a person in danger. The acceptance by human society of murderous famines, without efforts to remedy them, is a scandalous injustice and a grave offense. Th…

Cross-references

  • Amos 5:23 — Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
  • Amos 8:8 — Shall not the land tremble for this, and every one mourn that dwelleth therein? and it shall rise up wholly as a flood; and it shall be cast out and drowned, as by the flood of Egypt.
  • Ezek 7:2 — Also, thou son of man, thus saith the Lord GOD unto the land of Israel; An end, the end is come upon the four corners of the land.
  • Ezek 7:18 — They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
  • Ezek 7:18 — They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their heads.
  • Hos 2:11 — I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
  • Isa 3:24 — And it shall come to pass, that instead of sweet smell there shall be stink; and instead of a girdle a rent; and instead of well set hair baldness; and instead of a stomacher a girding of sackcloth; a
  • Isa 15:2 — He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be baldness, and every beard cut off.
  • Isa 22:12 — And in that day did the Lord GOD of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth:
  • Jer 2:19 — Thine own wickedness shall correct thee, and thy backslidings shall reprove thee: know therefore and see that it is an evil thing and bitter, that thou hast forsaken the LORD thy God, and that my fear
  • Jer 6:26 — O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentation: for the spoiler shall suddenly come upon us.
  • Jer 30:5 — For thus saith the LORD; We have heard a voice of trembling, of fear, and not of peace.
  • Jer 48:37 — For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
  • Job 20:23 — When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
  • Lam 5:15 — The joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning.
  • Luke 6:25 — Woe unto you that are full! for ye shall hunger. Woe unto you that laugh now! for ye shall mourn and weep.
  • Luke 7:12 — Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: and much people of the city was with her.
  • Mic 1:16 — Make thee bald, and poll thee for thy delicate children; enlarge thy baldness as the eagle; for they are gone into captivity from thee.
  • Zech 12:10 — And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for h
  • Zech 12:10 — And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall look upon me whom they have pierced, and they shall mourn for h