Amos 8:10
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
Context
This verse from Amos Chapter 8 connects to 10 cross-references. The vision of a basket of summer fruit announces the end has come for Israel. Their commercial fraudsters cannot wait for the sabbath to end so they can sell grain with deceitful scales. God will turn their feasts into mourning …
Other Translations
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head--baldness, And made it as a mourning <FI>of<Fi> an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.
Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.
Cross References
And thou shalt rejoice in thy feast, thou, and thy son, and thy daughter, and thy manservant, and thy maidservant, …
And it came to pass about ten days after, that the Lord smote Nabal, that he died.
And Abigail came to Nabal; and, behold, he held a feast in his house, like the feast of a king; …
When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall …
Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the …
And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from …
And in that day did the Lord God of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and …
My heart panted, fearfulness affrighted me: the night of my pleasure hath he turned into fear unto me.
Therefore are my loins filled with pain: pangs have taken hold upon me, as the pangs of a woman that …
In their streets they shall gird themselves with sackcloth: on the tops of their houses, and in their streets, every …