Amos 8:10

New King James Version

I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.

Cross References

Genesis 21:16

Then she went and sat down across from him at a distance of about a bowshot; for she said to herself, “Let me not see the death of the boy.” So she sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept.

Job 20:23

When he is about to fill his stomach, God will cast on him the fury of His wrath, And will rain it on him while he is eating.

Job 3:5

May darkness and the shadow of death claim it; May a cloud settle on it; May the blackness of the day terrify it.

Job 30:31

My harp is turned to mourning, And my flute to the voice of those who weep.

Isaiah 3:24

And so it shall be: Instead of a sweet smell there will be a stench; Instead of a sash, a rope; Instead of well-set hair, baldness; Instead of a rich robe, a girding of sackcloth; And branding instead of beauty.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will correct you, And your backslidings will rebuke you. Know therefore and see that it is an evil and bitter thing That you have forsaken the Lord your God, And the fear of Me is not in you,” Says the Lord God of hosts.

Jeremiah 48:37

“For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped; On all the hands shall be cuts, and on the loins sackcloth—

Jeremiah 6:26

O daughter of my people, Dress in sackcloth And roll about in ashes! Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation; For the plunderer will suddenly come upon us.

Lamentations 5:15

The joy of our heart has ceased; Our dance has turned into mourning.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will also be girded with sackcloth; Horror will cover them; Shame will be on every face, Baldness on all their heads.

Ezekiel 7:2

“And you, son of man, thus says the Lord God to the land of Israel: ‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.

Hosea 2:11

I will also cause all her mirth to cease, Her feast days, Her New Moons, Her Sabbaths— All her appointed feasts.

Hosea 2:13

I will punish her For the days of the Baals to which she burned incense. She decked herself with her earrings and jewelry, And went after her lovers; But Me she forgot,” says the Lord.

Joel 1:8

Lament like a virgin girded with sackcloth For the husband of her youth.

Leviticus 13:40

“As for the man whose hair has fallen from his head, he is bald, but he is clean.

Amos 5:21

“I hate, I despise your feast days, And I do not savor your sacred assemblies.

Amos 5:23

Take away from Me the noise of your songs, For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.

Amos 8:3

And the songs of the temple Shall be wailing in that day,” Says the Lord God— “Many dead bodies everywhere, They shall be thrown out in silence.”

Nahum 1:10

For while tangled like thorns, And while drunken like drunkards, They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.

Zechariah 12:10

“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.

Deuteronomy 16:14

And you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your gates.