Amos 8:10

Catholic Public Domain Version

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your hymns into lamentation. And I will put sackcloth over every one of your backs, and baldness on every head. And I will begin it like the mourning for an only-begotten son, and complete it like a bitter day.

Cross References

Genesis 21:16

And she moved away and sat in a distant area, as far as a bow can reach. For she said, "I shall not see the boy die." And so, sitting opposite her, he lifted up his voice and wept.

Job 20:23

May his stomach be filled, so that God may send forth the fury of his wrath to him and may rain down his battle upon him.

Job 3:5

Let darkness and the shadow of death obscure it, let a fog overtake it, and let it be enveloped in bitterness.

Job 30:31

My harp has been turned into mourning, and my pipes have been turned into a voice of weeping.

Isaiah 3:24

And in place of a sweet fragrance, there will be stench. And in place of a belt, there will be a rope. And in place of stylish hair, there will be baldness. And in place of a blouse, there will be haircloth.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own malice will reprove you, and your own apostasy will rebuke you! But know and perceive this: it is an evil and bitter thing for you to forsake the Lord your God, and to be without my fear within you, says the Lord, the God of hosts.

Jeremiah 48:37

For every head will be bald, and every beard will be shaved. All the hands will be bound together, and there will be haircloth on every back.

Jeremiah 6:26

Wrap yourself in haircloth, O daughter of my people. And sprinkle yourself with ashes. Make a mourning for yourself, as for an only son, a bitter lamentation: 'for the destroyer will overwhelm us suddenly.'

Lamentations 5:15

The gladness of our heart has failed, our singing has been turned into mourning.

Ezekiel 7:18

And they will wrap themselves with haircloth, and dread will cover them. And shame will be upon every face, and baldness will be upon all of their heads.

Ezekiel 7:2

"And as for you, son of man: Thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: The end is coming, the end is coming, over the four regions of the earth.

Hosea 2:11

And I will cause all her joy to cease: her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her feast dates.

Hosea 2:13

And I will inflict on her the days of the Baals, for whom she burned incense, and ornamented herself with earrings and necklace, and went after her lovers, and forgot about me," says the Lord.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a betrothed virgin, wrapped in sackcloth at the loss of the husband of her youth.

Leviticus 13:40

The man whose hair falls off of his head is bald and clean.

Amos 5:21

I hate and have rejected your feasts; and I will not accept the odor from your gatherings.

Amos 5:23

Take away from me the tumult of your songs, and I will not listen to the canticles of your lyre.

Amos 8:3

And the hinges of the temple will creak in that day, says the Lord God. Many will die. Silence will be thrown away in all places.

Nahum 1:10

For just as thorns entwine one another, so also, while they are feasting and drinking together, they will be consumed like stubble that is completely dry.

Zechariah 12:10

And I will pour out upon the house of David and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of prayers. And they will look upon me, whom they have pierced, and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son, and they will feel sorrow over him, as one would be sorrowful at the death of a firstborn.

Deuteronomy 16:14

And you shall feast at the time of your festival: you, your son and daughter, your man servant and woman servant, likewise the Levite and the new arrival, the orphan and the widow, who are within your gates.