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

8Because of this the earth will quake, and all who live in it will mourn. The whole earth will rise like the River Nile, it will surge upward and then grow calm, like the Nile in Egypt. 9In that day,” says the sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun set at noon, and make the earth dark in the middle of the day. I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day. 11Be certain of this, the time is coming,” says the sovereign Lord, “when I will send a famine through the land – not a shortage of food or water but an end to divine revelation! 12People will stagger from sea to sea, and from the north around to the east. They will wander about looking for a revelation from the Lord, but they will not find any.

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 8:3The women singing in the temple will wail in that day.” The sovereign Lord is speaking. “There will be many corpses littered everywhere! Be quiet!”
• Amos 5:23Take away from me your noisy songs; I don’t want to hear the music of your stringed instruments.
• Amos 6:4They lie around on beds decorated with ivory, and sprawl out on their couches. They eat lambs from the flock, and calves from the middle of the pen.
• Deuteronomy 16:14You are to rejoice in your festival, you, your son, your daughter, your male and female slaves, the Levites, the resident foreigners, the orphans, and the widows who are in your villages.
• 1 Samuel 25:36When Abigail went back to Nabal, he was holding a banquet in his house like that of the king. Nabal was having a good time and was very intoxicated. She told him absolutely nothing until morning’s light.
• 2 Samuel 13:28Absalom instructed his servants, “Look! When Amnon is drunk and I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon down,’ kill him then and there. Don’t fear! Is it not I who have given you these instructions? Be strong and courageous!”
• Job 20:23“While he is filling his belly, God sends his burning anger against him, and rains down his blows upon him.
• Isaiah 21:3For this reason my stomach churns; cramps overwhelm me like the contractions of a woman in labor. I am disturbed by what I hear, horrified by what I see.
• Isaiah 22:12At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning, for shaved heads and sackcloth.
• Daniel 5:4As they drank wine, they praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone.
• Hosea 2:11I will put an end to all her celebration: her annual religious festivals, monthly new moon celebrations, and weekly Sabbath festivities – all her appointed festivals.
• Nahum 1:10Surely they will be totally consumed like entangled thorn bushes, like the drink of drunkards, like very dry stubble.
• Isaiah 15:2They went up to the temple, the people of Dibon went up to the high places to lament. Because of what happened to Nebo and Medeba, Moab wails. Every head is shaved bare, every beard is trimmed off.
• Jeremiah 48:37For all of them will shave their heads in mourning. They will all cut off their beards to show their sorrow. They will all make gashes in their hands. They will all put on sackcloth.
• Ezekiel 7:18They will wear sackcloth, terror will cover them; shame will be on all their faces, and all of their heads will be shaved bald.
• Ezekiel 27:30They will lament loudly over you and cry bitterly. They will throw dust on their heads and roll in the 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