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Amos 8:10

The Scriptures 2009

and shall turn your festivals into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation, and bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head, and shall make it like mourning for an only son, and its end like a day of bitterness.

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O daughter of my people, gird on sackcloth, and roll about in ashes! Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation because suddenly the ravager shall come upon us.


“And I shall pour on the house of Dawiḏ and on the inhabitants of Yerushalayim a spirit of favour and prayers. And they shall look on Me whom they pierced, and they shall mourn for Him as one mourns for his only son. And they shall be in bitterness over Him as a bitterness over the first-born.


And they shall gird on sackcloth, and be covered with trembling. And shame shall be on every face, and baldness on all their heads.


“For every head is bald, and every beard clipped – cuts on all the hands, and sackcloth on the loins.


It shall be, at the filling of his stomach, that He casts on him His burning wrath, and rains it down on him while he is eating.


“And I shall cause all her rejoicing, her festivals, her New Moons, and her Sabbaths, even all her appointed times, to cease,


Though they are as entangled thorns, and as drunkards with their drink, they shall be consumed like stubble thoroughly dried.


“And the songs of the Hĕḵal shall be wailing in that day,” declares the Master יהוה, “many dead bodies everywhere, thrown into any place – hush!”


“Take away from Me the noise of your songs, for I do not hear the sound of your stringed instruments.


Let darkness and the shadow of death buy it back, let a cloud dwell on it, let all that blackens the day frighten it.


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


And she went and sat down about a bowshot away, for she said, “Let me not see the death of the boy.” And she sat opposite him, and lifted her voice and wept.


“And when a man loses the hair of his head, he is bald, he is clean.


And it shall be: Instead of a sweet fragrance, a smell of decay; and instead of a belt, a rope; and instead of well-set hair, baldness; and instead of a festal robe, a girding of sackcloth; and branding instead of loveliness.


“Your own evil instructs you, and your backslidings reprove you. Know therefore and see that it is evil and bitter that you have forsaken יהוה your Elohim, and that My fear is not in you,” declares the Master יהוה of hosts.


The joy of our heart has ceased, Our dancing has turned into mourning.


“And you, son of man, this is what the Master יהוה said to the land of Yisra’ĕl, ‘An end! The end has come upon the four corners of the land.


Wail like a maiden girded with sackcloth for the husband of her youth.


“I have hated, I have despised your festivals, and I am not pleased with your assemblies.


So my lyre becomes mourning, and my flute the sound of weeping.


“And I shall punish her for the days of the Ba‛als to which she burned incense and adorned herself with her rings and jewelry, and went after her lovers, and forgot Me,” declares יהוה.





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