Amos 8:10

Amos 8:10 in other versions

• King James Version (KJV)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.
• New International Version (NIV)I will turn your religious festivals into mourning and all your singing into weeping. I will make all of you wear sackcloth and shave your heads. I will make that time like mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
• English Standard Version (ESV)I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist and baldness on every head; I will make it like the mourning for an only son and the end of it like a bitter day.
• New King James Version (NKJV)I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth on every waist, And baldness on every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, And its end like a bitter day.

Context of Amos 8:10

8The whole country will shake because of your sins. Everyone who lives there will weep. The ground will rise up, like the floods of the Nile river in Egypt. Then it will go down again, like the water of the Nile.’ 9The Lord God says, ‘At that time, I will make the sun go down at noon. I will make the earth become dark in the daytime. Your parties will become funerals. You will not sing happy songs but you will weep. You will wear rough clothes and you will cut off all your hair. You will be as sad as if your only son had died. That will be a very bad day for you.’ 11The Lord God says, ‘Listen to me! At that time, I will cause you to be very hungry. It will not be because you need food and water. Instead, everyone in the land will want to hear a message from me. 12People will travel everywhere in the country, north and south, east and west. They will want to hear a message from the Lord, but there will be nothing for them to hear.

Amos 8:10 word by word

וְהָפַכְתִּ֨י חַגֵּיכֶ֜ם לְאֵ֗בֶל וְכָל־שִֽׁירֵיכֶם֙ לְקִינָ֔ה וְהַעֲלֵיתִ֤י עַל־כָּל־מָתְנַ֙יִם֙ שָׂ֔ק וְעַל־כָּל־רֹ֖אשׁ קָרְחָ֑ה וְשַׂמְתִּ֙יהָ֙ כְּאֵ֣בֶל יָחִ֔יד וְאַחֲרִיתָ֖הּ כְּי֥וֹם מָֽר׃Read the interlinear

Words taken from the KJV.

• And I will turnהָפַךְhâphak · to overturnH2015
• your feastsחַגchag châg · feastH2282
• into mourningאֵ֫בֶל'êbel · mourningH60
• and all your songsשִׁירshîyr shîyrâh · songH7892
• into lamentationקִינָהqîynâh · dirgeH7015
• and I will bring upעָלָה‛âlâh · to ascend: establishH5927
• sackclothשַׂקώaq · sackclothH8242
• upon all loinsמׇתְנַ֫יִםmôthen · loinH4975
• and baldnessקׇרְחָהqorchâh qorchâ' · bald spotH7144
• upon every headרֹאשׁrô'sh · headH7218
• and I will makeשׂוּםώûm ώîym · to set: makeH7760
• of an onlyיָחִידyâchîyd · onlyH3173
• and the endאַחֲרִית'achărîyth · endH319
• thereof as a bitterמַרmar mârâh · bitterH4751
• dayיוֹםyôm · dayH3117

Cross-references for Amos 8:10

• Amos 8:3On the day that I come to punish them, people will not sing in the temple. Instead they will weep loudly. There will be dead bodies everywhere. Be quiet now!’ That is what the Lord God says.
• Amos 5:23When you sing songs to worship me, I will not listen. They are just noise! I do not want to hear the music of your harps.
• Amos 6:4You lie on beautiful, expensive beds. You do not work, but you rest all the time. You eat fat young sheep and cows.
• Deuteronomy 16:14Enjoy your feast with your children, your servants and the Levites. Join with the foreign people who live among you, and also with the widows and the children who have no family.
• 1 Samuel 25:36Abigail returned to her husband, Nabal. He was eating a big feast with people in his house. It was as good as a king's feast. Nabal was happy and drunk. So Abigail did not tell him anything until the next morning.
• 2 Samuel 13:28Absalom then told his servants, ‘When Amnon has drunk a lot of wine I will tell you, “Knock him down!” Then you must kill him immediately. Do not be afraid. I am the one who is commanding you to do this. So be strong and brave.’
• Job 20:23When he is filling himself with good food, God will punish him. God will be very angry with him. God will attack the wicked person so that he suffers.
• Isaiah 21:3Because of that vision, I am very upset. Bad pains attack me, like the pains of a woman who is giving birth. My body hurts because of the things that I have heard. I am afraid to look!
• Isaiah 22:12At that time, the Lord Almighty told you to be very sad and weep. He told you to cut all the hair off your heads and to wear rough clothes.
• Daniel 5:4While they drank the wine, they praised their gods. Their gods were idols that were made from gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood and stone.
• Hosea 2:11I will stop the festivals that she enjoys each year. I will stop her feasts at the times of a new moon and on Sabbath days. I will stop all her parties.
• Nahum 1:10He will kill them. And then it will be like when thorn bushes have caught people. Or it will be like when they have drunk too much alcohol. It will be like when someone burns dry straw.
• Isaiah 15:2The people in Dibon have gone up to their temple to weep. They have gone up to the altars where they worship their gods. Moab's people are weeping because of what has happened at Nebo and Medeba. They are so upset that they have cut off their hair and their beards.
• Jeremiah 48:37All the men will be very upset. They will cut the hair off their heads and their faces. They will use knives to cut their hands. They will wear sackcloth as their clothes.
• Ezekiel 7:18They will wear sackcloth. They will be very afraid. Their faces will show that they are ashamed. They will cut all the hair from their heads.
• Ezekiel 27:30They will weep loudly because they are very upset about you. They will throw dirt on their heads. They will lie down in ashes.

Commentaries on Amos 8:10

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 10I will turn your feasts into mourning - See on Amos 8:3; (note). A bitter day - A time of grievous calamity.Read the comment
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 10I will turn your feasts into mourning - He recurs to the sentence which he had pronounced Amos 8:3, before he described the avarice and oppression which brought it down. Hosea too had foretold, “I will cause all her mirth to cease, her feast-days, etc” Hosea 2:11. So Jeremiah describes, “the joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning” Lamentations 5:15. The Book of Tobit bears witness how these sayings of Amos lived in the hearts of the…Read the comment
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-10Verses 4-10 The rich and powerful of the land were the most guilty of oppression, as well as the foremost in idolatry. They were weary of the restraints of the sabbaths and the new moons, and wished them over, because no common work might be done therein. This is the character of many who are called Christians. The sabbath day and sabbath work are a burden to carnal hearts. It will either be profaned or be accounted a dull day. But can we spend our time…Read the comment
• Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 4-14This section provides more details on the accusations and decisions mentioned earlier (read with Amos 2:6–6:14).Read the comment
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 1010. baldness--a sign of mourning (Is 15:2; Jr 48:37; Eze 7:18). I will make it as ... mourning of an only son--"it," that is, "the earth" (Am 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 (Jr 6:26; Zec 12:10).Read the comment

Topics related to Amos 8:10

• Baldness
• Music
• Worldliness

In the dictionaries

• Baldness
• Hair
• Lamentation
• Beard
• Bitter; Bitterness
• Cut; Cutting
• Cuttings in the Flesh
• Head
• Loins
• lament, lamentation

Commentaries on Amos 8

• Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
• Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
• Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
• Tyndale Open Study Notes
• Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
• Rashi on Tanakh
• Calvin’s Commentaries
• Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
• John Wesley’s Notes
• Darby Translation Notes
• Geneva Bible Translation Notes
• Kingcomments
• Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
• Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
• Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
• EGW Writings