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.

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Word	Hebrew	Strong’s	Meaning
turn	וְהָפַכְתִּ֨י ve.ha.fakh.Ti	H2015	to turn about or over · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 1st person common singular
feasts	חַגֵּיכֶ֜ם cha.gei.Khem	H2282	a festival · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
mourning	לְאֵ֗בֶל le.'E.vel	H60	lamentation · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute
songs	שִֽׁירֵיכֶם֙ shi.rei.Khem	H7892	a song · noun, common masculine plural construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine plural
lamentation	לְקִינָ֔ה le.ki.Nah	H7015	a dirge (as accompanied by beating the breasts or on in… · preposition + noun, common feminine singular absolute
up	וְהַעֲלֵיתִ֤י ve.ha.'a.lei.Ti	H5927	to ascend · conjunction + verb, hiphil sequential perfect, 1st person common singular
sackcloth	שָׂ֔ק Sak	H8242	properly · noun, common masculine singular absolute
loins	מָתְנַ֙יִם֙ ma.te.Na.yim	H4975	properly · noun, common masculine dual absolute
baldness	קָרְחָ֑ה ka.re.Chah	H7144	baldness · noun, common feminine singular absolute
head	רֹ֖אשׁ rosh	H7218	the head (as most easily shaken) · noun, common masculine singular absolute
make	וְשַׂמְתִּ֙יהָ֙ ve.sam.Ti.ha	H7760	to put (used in a great variety of applications · conjunction + verb, qal sequential perfect, 1st person common singular + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
mourning	כְּאֵ֣בֶל ke.'E.vel	H60	lamentation · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
only	יָחִ֔יד ya.Chid	H3173	properly · adjective, masculine singular absolute
end	וְאַחֲרִיתָ֖הּ ve.'a.cha.ri.Tah	H319	the last or end · conjunction + noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 3rd person feminine singular
bitter	מָֽר Mar	H4751	bitter (literally or figuratively) · adjective, masculine singular absolute
day	כְּי֥וֹם ke.Yom	H3117	a day (as the warm hours) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular absolute

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Cross-references

Jeremiah 6:26 O daughter of my people, gird thee with sackcloth, and wallow thyself in ashes: make thee mourning, as for an only son, most bitter lamentat…
Zechariah 12:10 And I will pour upon the house of David, and upon the inhabitants of Jerusalem, the spirit of grace and of supplications: and they shall loo…
Job 20:23 When he is about to fill his belly, God shall cast the fury of his wrath upon him, and shall rain it upon him while he is eating.
Jeremiah 48:37 For every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped: upon all the hands shall be cuttings, and upon the loins sackcloth.
Ezekiel 7:18 They shall also gird themselves with sackcloth, and horror shall cover them; and shame shall be upon all faces, and baldness upon all their…
Isaiah 15:2-3 He is gone up to Bajith, and to Dibon, the high places, to weep: Moab shall howl over Nebo, and over Medeba: on all their heads shall be bal…
Hosea 2:11 I will also cause all her mirth to cease, her feast days, her new moons, and her sabbaths, and all her solemn feasts.
Luke 7:12-13 Now when he came nigh to the gate of the city, behold, there was a dead man carried out, the only son of his mother, and she was a widow: an…

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Amos 8:4-10

God is here contending with proud oppressors, and showing them, I. The heinousness of the sin they were guilty of; in short, they had the character of the unjust judge (Luk 18:2) that neither feared God nor regarded man. 1. Observe them in their devotions, and you will say, "They had no reverence for God." Bad as they are, they do indeed keep up a show and form of godliness; they observe the sabbath and the new moon; they put some difference between those days and other days, but they were soon weary of them, and had no affection at all to them, for their hearts were wholly set upon the world and the things of it. It is a sad character which this gives of them, that they said, When will the…

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Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Amos 8:10

baldness--a sign of mourning (Isa 15:2; Jer 48:37; Eze 7:18). I will make it as . . . mourning of an only son--"it," that is, "the earth" (Amo 8:9). I will reduce the land to such a state that there shall be the same occasion for mourning as when parents mourn for an only son (Jer 6:26; Zac 12:10).

Adam Clarke on Amos 8:10

I will turn your feasts into mourning - See on Amo 8:3 (note). A bitter day - A time of grievous calamity.

John Gill on Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation,.... Either their religious feasts, the feasts of pentecost, tabernacles, and passover; at which three feasts there were eclipses of the sun, a few years after this prophecy of Amos, as Bishop Usher (q) observes: the first was an eclipse of the sun about ten digits, in the year 3213 A.M. or 791 B.C., June twenty fourth, at the feast of pentecost; the next was almost twelve digits, about eleven years after, on November eighth, 780 B.C., at the feast of the tabernacles; and the third was more than eleven digits in the following year, 779 B.C., on May fifth, at the feast of the passover; which the prophecy may litera…

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The Church Fathers

Let us keep [the Feast of Annunciation] with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs. From ancient times Israel kept their festival, but then it was with unleavened bread and bitter herbs, of which the prophet says, "I will turn their feasts into afflictions and lamentation and their joy into shame." But our afflictions our Lord has assured us he will turn into joy by the fruits of repentance.
— Gregory of Neocaesarea, ON THE ANNUNCIATION TO THE HOLY VIRGIN MARY 2

Suspended, then, and fastened to his cross Christ cried out to God the Father in a loud voice and willingly laid down his life. In that same hour there was an earthquake, and the veil of the temple that separated the two tabernacles was cut in two, and the sun was suddenly withdrawn, and from the sixth hour until the ninth hour there was darkness. The prophet Amos bears witness to this. "And it shall come to pass in that day, says the Lord, that the sun shall go down at midday, and the day shall be darkened of light. And I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation."
— Lucius Caecilius Firmianus Lactantius, EPITOME OF THE DIVINE INSTITUTES 4:19

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Dictionary and topics

Baldness — From natural causes was uncommon (2 Kings 2:23; Isa. 3:24). It was included apparently under “scab” and “scurf,” which disqualified for the priesthood (Lev. 21:20). The Egyptians were rarely subject…
Hair — (1.) The Egyptians let the hair of their head and beard grow only when they were in mourning, shaving it off at other times. “So particular were they on this point that to have neglected it was a…
Lamentation — (Heb. qinah), an elegy or dirge. The first example of this form of poetry is the lament of David over Saul and Jonathan (2 Sam. 1:17-27). It was a frequent accompaniment of mourning (Amos 8:10). In 2…
Baldness · Artificial, a sign of mourning — Artificial, a sign of mourning
Worldliness · 1:8;2:1-12;6:11,12;8:15-17;10:19;11:9,10; — 1:8;2:1-12;6:11,12;8:15-17;10:19;11:9,10;

Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).

Amos 8:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

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Commentary

Matthew Henry on Amos 8:4-10

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Amos 8:10

Adam Clarke on Amos 8:10

John Gill on Amos 8:10

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

Amos 8:10

Word by word — the Hebrew

Cross-references

Commentary

Matthew Henry on Amos 8:4-10

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Amos 8:10

Adam Clarke on Amos 8:10

John Gill on Amos 8:10

The Church Fathers

Dictionary and topics

John Calvin on Amos 8:10

Keil & Delitzsch on Amos 8:9-10

Tyndale Open Study Notes on Amos 8:9

Rashi on Amos 8:10