Amos 8:10

New International Reader's Version

I will turn your holy feasts into times for mourning. I will turn all your songs into weeping. You will have to wear the clothing of sadness. You will shave your heads. I will make you mourn as if your only son had died. The end of that time will be like a bitter day.”

Cross References

Genesis 21:16

Then she sat down about as far away as a person can shoot an arrow. She thought, “I can’t stand to watch the boy die.” As she sat there, she began to sob.

Job 20:23

When they’ve filled their stomachs, God will pour out his great anger on them. He’ll strike them down with blow after blow.

Job 3:5

May gloom and total darkness take it back. May a cloud settle over it. May blackness cover it up.

Job 30:31

My lyre is tuned to sadness. My flute makes a sound like weeping.

Isaiah 3:24

Instead of smelling sweet, the women will smell bad. Instead of wearing belts, they will wear ropes. Instead of having beautiful hair, they won’t have any hair at all. Instead of wearing fine clothes, they’ll wear rough clothes to show how sad they are. Instead of being beautiful, on their bodies they’ll have the marks of their owners.

Jeremiah 2:19

You will be punished because you have sinned. You will be corrected for turning away from me. I am the Lord your God. If you desert me, bad things will happen to you. If you do not respect me, you will suffer bitterly. I want you to understand that,” announces the Lord who rules over all.

Jeremiah 48:37

Every head is shaved. Every beard is cut off. Every hand is cut. And every waist is covered with the clothes of sadness.

Jeremiah 6:26

My people, put on the clothes of sadness. Roll among the ashes. Mourn with bitter weeping just as you would mourn for an only son. The one who is going to destroy us will come suddenly.

Lamentations 5:15

There isn’t any joy in our hearts. Our dancing has turned into mourning.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will put on the rough clothing people wear when they’re sad. They will put on terror as if it were their clothes. Every face will be covered with shame. Every head will be shaved.

Ezekiel 7:2

“Son of man, I am the Lord and King. I say to the land of Israel, ‘The end has come! It has come on the four corners of the land.

Hosea 2:11

I will put a stop to the special times she celebrates. I’ll bring an end to the feasts she celebrates each year. I’ll stop her New Moon feasts and her Sabbath days. I’ll bring all her appointed feasts to an end.

Hosea 2:13

Israel burned incense to the gods that were named Baal. I will punish her for all the times she did that. She decorated herself with rings and jewelry. Then she went after her lovers. But she forgot all about me,” declares the Lord.

Joel 1:8

My people, mourn like a virgin who is dressed in the clothes of sadness. She is sad because she has lost the young man she was going to marry.

Leviticus 13:40

“Suppose a man loses all the hair on his head. Then he is ‘clean.’

Amos 5:21

The Lord says, “I hate your holy feasts. I can’t stand them. Your gatherings stink.

Amos 5:23

Take the noise of your songs away! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

Amos 8:3

“The time is coming when the songs in the temple will turn to weeping,” announces the Lord and King. “Many, many bodies will be thrown everywhere! So be quiet!”

Nahum 1:10

His enemies will be tangled up among thorns. Their wine will make them drunk. They’ll be burned up like dry straw.

Zechariah 12:10

“I will pour out a spirit of grace and prayer on David’s family line. I will also send it on those who live in Jerusalem. They will look to me. I am the one they have pierced. They will mourn over me as someone mourns over an only child who has died. They will be full of sorrow over me. Their sorrow will be just like someone’s sorrow over an oldest son.

Deuteronomy 16:14

Be filled with joy at your feast. You, your children, and your male and female servants should be joyful. So should the Levites, the outsiders, and the widows living in your towns. And so should the children whose fathers have died.