OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 10

Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning,

and all your songs into lamentation;

and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,

and baldness on every head.

I will make it like the mourning for an only son,

and its end like a bitter day.

THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Amos 8:10 in context

Amos 8:7–13

The LORD has sworn by the pride of Jacob,

“Surely I will never forget any of their works.

Won’t the land tremble for this,

and everyone mourn who dwells in it?

Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;

and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt.

It will happen in that day,” says the Lord GOD,

“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,

and I will darken the earth in the clear day.

Selected verse

I will turn your feasts into mourning,

and all your songs into lamentation;

and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,

and baldness on every head.

I will make it like the mourning for an only son,

and its end like a bitter day.

Behold, the days come,” says the Lord GOD,

“that I will send a famine in the land,

not a famine of bread,

nor a thirst for water,

but of hearing the LORD’s words.

They will wander from sea to sea,

and from the north even to the east;

they will run back and forth to seek the LORD’s word,

and will not find it.

In that day the beautiful virgins

and the young men will faint for thirst.

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