Amos 8:10

Tree of Life Version

I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into a dirge. I will pull up sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son— its end a bitter day.”

Cross References

Genesis 21:16

Then she went and sat herself down opposite, about a bowshot away, for she had said, “I can’t bear to see the child dying!” So she sat down opposite and lifted up her voice and wept.

Job 20:23

While he is filling his belly, He will send the anger of His wrath against him, and rain it down it on him, on his flesh.

Job 3:5

May darkness and deep gloom reclaim it; may a cloud settle over it; may whatever blackens the day terrify it.

Job 30:31

My harp is for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.

Isaiah 3:24

Now it will come to pass: Instead of sweet spices there will be rottenness; instead of a sash, rags; instead of curled hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

Jeremiah 2:19

Your own wickedness will rebuke you and your backslidings will chide you. Know then and see how bad and bitter it is for you to forsake Adonai your God. Nor is fear of Me in you.” It is a declaration of the Lord Adonai-Tzva’ot.

Jeremiah 48:37

For every head is bald, every beard clipped, on all the hands are gashes, and around the waist sackcloth.

Jeremiah 6:26

“Daughter of My people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes. Mourn as for an only son with bitter lamentation.” “For suddenly the destroyer will come on us!”

Lamentations 5:15

Joy has ceased in our hearts. Our dance has turned into mourning.

Ezekiel 7:18

They will also gird on sackcloth. Horror will cover them. Shame will be upon all faces. Baldness will be upon all their heads.

Ezekiel 7:2

“You, son of man, thus says Adonai Elohim concerning the land of Israel: An end! The end has come on the four corners of the land.

Hosea 2:11

Therefore I will return and take back My grain in its season, and My new wine at its appointed time, and I will snatch away My wool and My linen for covering her nakedness.

Hosea 2:13

I will also put an end to all her rejoicing— her feasts, her New Moon, her Shabbat, and all her moadim.

Joel 1:8

Wail like a virgin dressed in sackcloth for the husband of her youth!

Leviticus 13:40

“If a man’s hair has fallen from his head, he is bald. He is clean.

Amos 5:21

“I hate, I despise your festivals! I take no delight in your sacred assemblies.

Amos 5:23

Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the melody of your harps.

Amos 8:3

The songs of the palace will become howls in that day.” It is a declaration of my Lord Adonai. “So many corpses flung everywhere! Hush!

Nahum 1:10

For even like tangled thorns they will be consumed, or like drunkards who are drunk, or like stubble that is fully dry.

Zechariah 12:10

“Then I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication, when they will look toward Me whom they pierced. They will mourn for him as one mourns for an only son and grieve bitterly for him, as one grieves for a firstborn.

Deuteronomy 16:14

So you will rejoice in your feast—you, your son and daughter, slave and maid, Levite and outsider, orphan and widow within your gates.