Amos 8:10

Bible in Basic English 1965

Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Cross References

Genesis 21:16

And she went some distance away, about an arrow flight, and seating herself on the earth, she gave way to bitter weeping, saying, Let me not see the death of my child.

Job 20:23

God gives him his desire, and sends the heat of his wrath on him, making it come down on him like rain.

Job 3:5

Let the dark and the black night take it for themselves; let it be covered with a cloud; let the dark shades of day send fear on it.

Job 30:31

And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

Isaiah 3:24

And in the place of sweet spices will be an evil smell, and for a fair band a thick cord; for a well-dressed head there will be the cutting-off of the hair, and for a beautiful robe there will be the clothing of sorrow; the mark of the prisoner in place of the ornaments of the free.

Jeremiah 2:19

The evil you yourselves have done will be your punishment, your errors will be your judge: be certain then, and see that it is an evil and a bitter thing to give up the Lord your God, and no longer to be moved by fear of me, says the Lord, the Lord of armies.

Jeremiah 48:37

For everywhere the hair of the head and the hair of the face is cut off: on every hand there are wounds, and haircloth on every body.

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, put on haircloth, rolling yourself in the dust: give yourself to sorrow, as for an only son, with most bitter cries of grief; for he who makes waste will come on us suddenly.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our hearts is ended; our dancing is changed into sorrow.

Ezekiel 7:18

And they will put haircloth round them, and deep fear will be covering them; and shame will be on all faces, and the hair gone from all their heads.

Ezekiel 7:2

And you, son of man, say, This is what the Lord has said to the land of Israel: An end has come, the end has come on the four quarters of the land.

Hosea 2:11

And I will put an end to all her joy, her feasts, her new moons, and her Sabbaths, and all her regular meetings.

Hosea 2:13

And I will give her punishment for the days of the Baals, to whom she has been burning perfumes, when she made herself fair with her nose-rings and her jewels, and went after her lovers, giving no thought to me, says the Lord.

Joel 1:8

Make sounds of grief like a virgin dressed in haircloth for the husband of her early years.

Leviticus 13:40

And if a man's hair has come out and he has no hair, still he is clean.

Amos 5:21

Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

Amos 5:23

Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.

Amos 8:3

And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.

Nahum 1:10

For though they are like twisted thorns, and are overcome as with drink, they will come to destruction like stems of grass fully dry.

Zechariah 12:10

And I will send down on the family of David and on the people of Jerusalem the spirit of grace and of prayer; and their eyes will be turned to the one who was wounded by their hands: and they will be weeping for him as for an only son, and their grief for him will be bitter, like the grief of one sorrowing for his oldest son.

Deuteronomy 16:14

You are to keep the feast with joy, you and your son and your daughter, your man-servant and your woman-servant, and the Levite, and the man from a strange country, and the child without a father, and the widow, who are living among you.