Amos 8:10

Linguistic Bible Translation from Source Texts

'I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cover everyone's waists with sackcloth and shave every head bald. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.'

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Other Translations

  • King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lentation; 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.

  • KJV1611 – Modern English

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all waists, and baldness upon every head; I will make it like mourning for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

  • King James Version 1611 (Original)

    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.

  • American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

    And I will turn{H2015} your feasts{H2282} into mourning,{H60} and all your songs{H7892} into lamentation;{H7015} and I will bring{H5927} sackcloth{H8242} upon all loins,{H4975} and baldness{H7144} upon every head;{H7218} and I will make{H7760} it as the mourning{H60} for an only{H3173} son, and the end{H319} thereof as a bitter{H4751} day.{H3117}

  • King James Version with Strong's Numbers

    And I will turn{H2015}{(H8804)} your feasts{H2282} into mourning{H60}, and all your songs{H7892} into lamentation{H7015}; and I will bring up{H5927}{(H8689)} sackcloth{H8242} upon all loins{H4975}, and baldness{H7144} upon every head{H7218}; and I will make{H7760}{(H8804)} it as the mourning{H60} of an only{H3173} son, and the end{H319} thereof as a bitter{H4751} day{H3117}.

  • Coverdale Bible (1535)

    Youre hye feastes will I turne to sorow, and youre songes to mournynge: I wil brynge sack cloth vpo all backes, & baldnes vpo euery heade: yee soch a mournynge wil I sende them, as is made vpon an only begotten sonne, and they shall haue a miserable ende.

  • Geneva Bible (1560)

    And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring sackcloth vpon all loynes, and baldnes vpon euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onely sonne, and the ende thereof as a bitter day.

  • Bishops' Bible (1568)

    And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songues into lamentation: and I will bring sackecloth vpon all loynes, and baldnesse vpon euery head, & I will make it as the mourning of an only sonne, and the end therof as a bitter day.

  • Authorized King James Version (1611)

    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.

  • Webster's Bible (1833)

    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 the end of it like a bitter day.

  • Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

    And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head -- baldness, And made it as a mourning `of' an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  • American Standard Version (1901)

    And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

  • Bible in Basic English (1941)

    Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

  • World English Bible (2000)

    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.

  • NET Bible® (New English Translation)

    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.

Referenced Verses

  • Jer 6:26 : 26 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn as for an only son, with bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.
  • Zech 12:10 : 10 And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and supplication. They will look on Me, the one they have pierced, and they will mourn for Him as one mourns for an only child and grieve bitterly for Him as one grieves for a firstborn son.
  • Jer 48:37 : 37 Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off, gashes are on all their hands, and sackcloth is wrapped around their waists.
  • Ezek 7:18 : 18 They will put on sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on every face, and every head will be shaved.
  • Hos 2:11 : 11 Therefore, I will take back my grain in its time and my new wine in its season. I will remove my wool and flax, which were to cover her nakedness.
  • Job 20:23 : 23 When he is about to fill his stomach, God will unleash his burning anger against him and rain it upon him while he eats.
  • Isa 15:2-3 : 2 They have gone up to the temple and to Dibon, to the high places, to weep. Moab wails over Nebo and Medeba. Every head is shaved, and every beard is cut off. 3 In its streets, they wear sackcloth. On its rooftops and public squares, everyone wails, falling down in tears.
  • Isa 21:3-4 : 3 Therefore my body is filled with trembling; pangs have seized me, like the pangs of a woman in labor. I am bent over by what I heard; I am dismayed by what I saw. 4 My heart staggers; terror overwhelms me. The twilight I longed for has been turned into trembling for me.
  • Isa 22:12-14 : 12 In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth. 13 But behold, there is joy and gladness—killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine—saying, 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!' 14 The LORD of Hosts has revealed in my hearing: 'Surely this iniquity will not be atoned for you until you die,' says the Lord, the LORD of Hosts.
  • Deut 16:14 : 14 Be joyful at your festival—you, your son and daughter, your male and female servants, the Levite, the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow who live in your towns.
  • 1 Sam 25:36-38 : 36 When Abigail went to Nabal, he was in the house holding a banquet like that of a king. He was in high spirits and very drunk, so she told him nothing at all until daybreak. 37 Then in the morning, when Nabal was sober, his wife told him all these things, and his heart failed him, and he became like a stone. 38 About ten days later, the Lord struck Nabal, and he died.
  • 2 Sam 13:28-31 : 28 Absalom ordered his servants, saying, 'Watch when Amnon’s heart is cheerful from drinking wine, and when I say to you, "Strike Amnon down," then kill him. Don’t be afraid. Haven’t I ordered you? Be strong and courageous.’ 29 So Absalom’s servants did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons got up, mounted their mules, and fled. 30 While they were on the way, word came to David: 'Absalom has struck down all the king’s sons; not one of them is left.' 31 The king got up, tore his clothes, and lay on the ground, and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
  • Job 3:5 : 5 Let darkness and deep shadow claim it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let blackness of the day terrify it.
  • Amos 5:23 : 23 Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the melody of your harps.
  • Amos 6:4-7 : 4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs from the flock and fattened calves from the stall. 5 You strum away on your harps like David and fashion instruments for music. 6 You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph. 7 Therefore, you will be among the first to go into exile, and your feasting and lounging will come to an end.
  • Amos 8:3 : 3 In that day, the songs of the temple will turn into wailing, declares the Lord God. Many corpses will lie everywhere; they will be cast out in silence.
  • Nah 1:10 : 10 Though they are entangled in thorns and drunk from their wine, they will be consumed like dry stubble.
  • Ezek 27:30-31 : 30 They will mourn over you with loud cries, bitterly wailing, throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes. 31 They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. In deep anguish and bitter mourning, they will weep for you.
  • Dan 5:4-6 : 4 They drank the wine and praised the gods of gold, silver, bronze, iron, wood, and stone. 5 At that very moment, the fingers of a human hand appeared and wrote on the plaster of the wall near the lampstand in the royal palace. The king watched the hand as it wrote. 6 Then the king’s face turned pale, and his thoughts terrified him. His hips became weak, and his knees knocked together.
  • Luke 7:12-13 : 12 As Jesus approached the gate of the town, a dead man was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. A large crowd from the town was with her. 13 When the Lord saw her, He was moved with compassion for her and said, 'Do not weep.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 8:8-9
    2 verses
    82%

    8 Shall not the land tremble on account of this, and all who live in it mourn? The whole land will rise like the Nile; it will be tossed about and then sink again like the Nile of Egypt.

    9 'On that day,' declares the Lord God, 'I will make the sun go down at noon and darken the earth in broad daylight.'

  • Isa 22:12
    82%

    12 In that day the Lord, the LORD of Hosts, called you to weeping, wailing, shaving your heads, and wearing sackcloth.

  • Mic 1:8
    78%

    8 Because of this, I will lament and wail; I will walk barefoot and naked. I will howl like jackals and mourn like ostriches.

  • Joel 1:8-10
    3 verses
    78%

    8 Mourn like a young woman dressed in sackcloth, grieving for the husband of her youth.

    9 Grain offerings and drink offerings are cut off from the house of the Lord. The priests, the ministers of the Lord, mourn.

    10 The fields are devastated, and the ground mourns, because the grain is destroyed, the new wine is dried up, and the olive oil fails.

  • Ezek 7:18
    77%

    18 They will put on sackcloth, and horror will cover them. Shame will be on every face, and every head will be shaved.

  • Isa 3:24
    77%

    24 Instead of perfume, there will be a stench; instead of a belt, a rope; instead of well-set hair, baldness; instead of fine clothing, sackcloth; and branding instead of beauty.

  • Amos 5:16-18
    3 verses
    77%

    16 Therefore, this is what the Lord, the God of Hosts, the Lord says: There will be wailing in all the open squares, and in all the streets they will say, 'Woe, woe!' They will summon the farmer to mourning and professional mourners to lamentation.

    17 In all the vineyards there will be wailing, for I will pass through your midst—this is what the Lord has declared.

    18 Woe to you who long for the day of the Lord! Why do you desire it? The day of the Lord will be darkness and not light.

  • Amos 8:11
    76%

    11 'Behold, the days are coming,' declares the Lord God, 'when I will send a famine on the land—not a famine of bread or a thirst for water, but a famine of hearing the words of the Lord.'

  • Ezek 32:8
    76%

    8 All the shining lights in the sky I will darken over you, and I will bring darkness over your land, declares the Lord GOD.

  • Ezek 27:30-31
    2 verses
    76%

    30 They will mourn over you with loud cries, bitterly wailing, throwing dust on their heads and rolling in ashes.

    31 They will shave their heads for you and wrap themselves in sackcloth. In deep anguish and bitter mourning, they will weep for you.

  • Amos 8:3
    75%

    3 In that day, the songs of the temple will turn into wailing, declares the Lord God. Many corpses will lie everywhere; they will be cast out in silence.

  • Joel 1:15
    75%

    15 Alas for the day! For the day of the Lord is near, and it will come as destruction from the Almighty.

  • Hos 2:11
    75%

    11 Therefore, I will take back my grain in its time and my new wine in its season. I will remove my wool and flax, which were to cover her nakedness.

  • Jer 4:8
    74%

    8 For this, put on sackcloth, lament and wail, for the fierce anger of the LORD has not turned away from us.

  • Jer 25:10
    74%

    10 I will banish from them the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.

  • Jer 6:26
    74%

    26 O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth and roll in ashes; mourn as for an only son, with bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.

  • Joel 1:13
    73%

    13 Put on sackcloth and mourn, you priests; wail, you ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, you who minister to my God, for grain offerings and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.

  • Jer 48:37
    73%

    37 Every head is shaved, every beard is cut off, gashes are on all their hands, and sackcloth is wrapped around their waists.

  • Isa 15:3
    73%

    3 In its streets, they wear sackcloth. On its rooftops and public squares, everyone wails, falling down in tears.

  • Ezek 7:27
    73%

    27 The king will mourn, the prince will be clothed with desolation, and the hands of the people of the land will tremble. I will deal with them according to their conduct and judge them by their own standards. Then they will know that I am the LORD.

  • Jer 19:8
    73%

    8 I will make this city desolate and an object of scorn. Everyone who passes by will be appalled and will scoff because of all its wounds.

  • Zeph 1:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14 The great day of the Lord is near, near and rapidly approaching. The sound of the day of the Lord is bitter; there, even the mighty warrior cries out.

    15 That day is a day of wrath, a day of distress and anguish, a day of devastation and desolation, a day of darkness and gloom, a day of clouds and thick darkness.

  • Zeph 1:17
    73%

    17 I will bring distress on mankind, and they will walk like the blind because they have sinned against the Lord. Their blood will be poured out like dust, and their flesh like dung.

  • Jer 9:10
    73%

    10 I will make Jerusalem a heap of ruins, a lair of jackals, and I will make the towns of Judah desolate, without inhabitants.

  • Hos 9:5
    73%

    5 What will you do on the day of your appointed festival, on the day of the LORD’s feast?

  • Isa 16:10
    73%

    10 Joy and gladness are taken away from the fertile fields. In the vineyards, no songs are sung, no cheers are heard. No one treads out wine in the presses—the cheerful shouting has stopped.

  • Ezek 24:23
    73%

    23 Your turbans shall be on your heads and your sandals on your feet. You shall not mourn or weep, but you shall waste away in your iniquities and groan to one another.

  • Mic 1:16
    72%

    16 Shave your head bald and cut off your hair because of your precious children. Make yourself as bald as the eagle, for they have been taken away from you into exile.

  • Ezek 24:16
    72%

    16 Son of man, behold, I am about to take from you the delight of your eyes with a single blow. But you shall not mourn or weep, and your tears shall not flow.

  • Job 30:31
    72%

    31 My harp is turned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

  • Isa 50:3
    72%

    3 I clothe the heavens with darkness and make sackcloth their covering.

  • Ezek 26:13
    72%

    13 'I will silence the noise of your songs, and the sound of your harps will no longer be heard.'

  • Ezek 5:10
    72%

    10 Therefore, fathers will eat their sons among you, and sons will eat their fathers. I will execute judgments on you and scatter all your survivors to every wind.

  • Jer 4:28
    72%

    28 Because of this, the earth will mourn, and the heavens above will grow dark. For I have spoken, I have purposed, and I will not relent or turn back from it.

  • Amos 5:20
    72%

    20 Won’t the day of the Lord be darkness and not light, gloom with no brightness in it?

  • Jer 16:5-6
    2 verses
    72%

    5 For this is what the LORD says: Do not enter a house of mourning. Do not go to lament or console them, for I have withdrawn My peace from this people, declares the LORD, as well as My lovingkindness and compassion.

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  • Ezek 35:14
    72%

    14 This is what the Sovereign LORD says: While the whole earth rejoices, I will make you desolate.

  • Zech 12:11
    72%

    11 On that day, the mourning in Jerusalem will be as great as the mourning for Hadad-Rimmon in the plain of Megiddo.

  • Zeph 1:8
    72%

    8 On the day of the Lord’s sacrifice, I will punish the officials, the king’s sons, and all who are dressed in foreign clothing.

  • Isa 5:30
    72%

    30 On that day, they will roar over it like the roaring of the sea. And if one looks at the land, there is only darkness and distress; even the light is darkened by the clouds.

  • Jer 31:13
    71%

    13 The young women will rejoice and dance, and the young men and the old together. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them and give them gladness in place of sorrow.

  • Isa 13:10
    71%

    10 The stars of heaven and their constellations will not give their light. The sun will be darkened as it rises, and the moon will not shine its light.