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Amos 8:10

King James Version (KJV)

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Amos 8:10

Verse 10 of 14

Scripture focus

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.

Amos 8:10 — KJV

Commentary

Commentary on Amos 8:10

Theological / Devotional

Turn your feasts. See Lam. 5:15; Hosea 2:11; Amos 5:16, 17 ; 8:3.

Sackcloth. This was a sign of mourning (1 Kings 20:31; Isa. 15:3; Joel 1:8, 13), as was also this “baldness,” that is, the shaving of the head (Job 1:20; Isa. 3:24 ; 15:2).

Of an only son. That is, “for an only son,” which represents an especially severe sorrow (see Jer. 6:26; Zech. 12:10).

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