Amos 8:10

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Your festivals and joyful singing will turn into sorrow. You will wear sackcloth and shave your heads, as you would at the death of your only son. It will be a horrible day.

Cross References

Genesis 21:16

Then she sat down a long way off, because she could not bear to watch him die. And she cried bitterly.

Job 20:23

and God will make them swallow his blazing anger.

Job 3:5

and send thick, gloomy shadows to fill it with dread.

Job 30:31

My only songs are sorrow and sadness.

Isaiah 3:24

In place of perfume, there will be a stink; in place of belts, there will be ropes; in place of fancy hair styles, they will have bald heads. Instead of expensive clothes, they will wear sackcloth; instead of beauty, they will have ugly scars.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own sins will punish you, because it was a bitter mistake for you to reject me without fear of punishment. I, the LORD All-Powerful, have spoken.

Jeremiah 48:37

The people of Moab mourn on the rooftops and in the streets. Men cut off their beards, people shave their heads; they make cuts on their hands and wear sackcloth. And it's all because I, the LORD, have shattered Moab like a jar that no one wants.

Jeremiah 6:26

and attacks without warning. So mourn, my people, as though your only child had died. Wear clothes made of sackcloth and roll in the ash heap.”

Lamentations 5:15

Our hearts are sad; instead of dancing, we mourn.

Ezekiel 7:18

You will put on sackcloth to show your sorrow, but terror will overpower you. Shame will be written all over your faces, and you will shave your heads in despair.

Ezekiel 7:2

Ezekiel, son of man, tell the people of Israel that I am saying: Israel will soon come to an end! Your whole country is about to be destroyed

Hosea 2:11

I'll stop Israel's celebrations— no more New Moon Festivals, Sabbaths, or other feasts.

Hosea 2:13

I'll punish her for the days she worshipped Baal and burnt incense to him. I'll punish her for the times she forgot about me and wore jewellery and rings to attract her lovers. I, the LORD, have spoken!

Joel 1:8

Grieve like a young woman mourning for the man she was to marry.

Leviticus 13:40

If you become bald on any part of your head, you are still clean.

Amos 5:21

I, the LORD, hate and despise your religious celebrations and your times of worship.

Amos 5:23

No more of your noisy songs! I won't listen when you play your harps.

Amos 8:3

Instead of singing in the temple, they will cry and weep. Dead bodies will be everywhere. So keep silent! I, the LORD, have spoken!”

Nahum 1:10

They are like drunkards overcome by wine, or like dry thorn bushes burning in a fire.

Zechariah 12:10

I, the LORD, will make the descendants of David and the people of Jerusalem feel deep sorrow and pray when they see the one they pierced with a spear. They will mourn and weep for him, as parents weep over the death of their only child or their firstborn.