10 (A)I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
(B)I will bring sackcloth on every waist
    (C)and baldness on every head;
(D)I will make it like the mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.

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10 I will turn your religious festivals(A) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.(B)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth(C)
    and shave(D) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son(E)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.(F)

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26 O daughter of my people, (A)put on sackcloth,
    and (B)roll in ashes;
(C)make mourning as for an only son,
    most bitter lamentation,
for suddenly the destroyer
    will come upon us.

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26 Put on sackcloth,(A) my people,
    and roll in ashes;(B)
mourn with bitter wailing(C)
    as for an only son,(D)
for suddenly the destroyer(E)
    will come upon us.

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Him Whom They Have Pierced

10 “And (A)I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit of grace and (B)pleas for mercy, so that, (C)when they look on me, on him whom they have pierced, (D)they shall mourn for him, (E)as one mourns for an only child, and weep bitterly over him, as one weeps over a firstborn.

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Mourning for the One They Pierced

10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit[a](A) of grace and supplication.(B) They will look on[b] me, the one they have pierced,(C) and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child,(D) and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.(E)

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  1. Zechariah 12:10 Or the Spirit
  2. Zechariah 12:10 Or to

18 (A)They put on sackcloth, and (B)horror covers them. Shame is on all faces, and (C)baldness on all their heads.

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18 They will put on sackcloth(A)
    and be clothed with terror.(B)
Every face will be covered with shame,
    and every head will be shaved.(C)

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37 (A)“For every head is shaved and every beard cut off. (B)On all the hands are gashes, and (C)around the waist is sackcloth.

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37 Every head is shaved(A)
    and every beard(B) cut off;
every hand is slashed
    and every waist is covered with sackcloth.(C)

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23 To fill his belly to the full,
    God[a] will send his burning anger against him
    and rain it upon him (A)into his body.

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  1. Job 20:23 Hebrew he

23 When he has filled his belly,(A)
    God will vent his burning anger(B) against him
    and rain down his blows on him.(C)

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12 As he drew near to the gate of the town, behold, a man who had died was being carried out, (A)the only son of his mother, and she was a widow, and a considerable crowd from the town was with her. 13 And when the Lord saw her, (B)he had compassion on her and (C)said to her, “Do not weep.”

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12 As he approached the town gate, a dead person was being carried out—the only son of his mother, and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the town was with her. 13 When the Lord(A) saw her, his heart went out to her and he said, “Don’t cry.”

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11 (A)And I will put an end to all her mirth,
    her feasts, her (B)new moons, her (C)Sabbaths,
    and all her (D)appointed feasts.

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11 I will stop(A) all her celebrations:(B)
    her yearly festivals, her New Moons,
    her Sabbath days—all her appointed festivals.(C)

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He has gone up to the temple,[a] and to (A)Dibon,
    to the high places[b] to weep;
over (B)Nebo and over (C)Medeba
    Moab (D)wails.
On every head is (E)baldness;
    every beard is shorn;
in the streets they wear sackcloth;
    on the housetops and in the squares
    everyone wails and melts in tears.

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 15:2 Hebrew the house
  2. Isaiah 15:2 Or temple, even Dibon to the high places

Dibon(A) goes up to its temple,
    to its high places(B) to weep;
    Moab wails(C) over Nebo(D) and Medeba.
Every head is shaved(E)
    and every beard cut off.(F)
In the streets they wear sackcloth;(G)
    on the roofs(H) and in the public squares(I)
they all wail,(J)
    prostrate with weeping.(K)

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10 For they are (A)like entangled thorns,
    like drunkards as they drink;
    (B)they are consumed like stubble fully dried.

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10 They will be entangled among thorns(A)
    and drunk(B) from their wine;
    they will be consumed like dry stubble.[a](C)

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  1. Nahum 1:10 The meaning of the Hebrew for this verse is uncertain.

(A)The songs of the temple[a] (B)shall become wailings[b] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
(C)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
(D)“Silence!”

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  1. Amos 8:3 Or palace
  2. Amos 8:3 Or The singing women of the palace shall wail

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[a](A) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!(B)

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  1. Amos 8:3 Or “the temple singers will wail

“Woe to those (A)who lie on (B)beds of ivory
    (C)and stretch themselves out on their couches,
and eat lambs from the flock
    (D)and calves from the midst of the stall,
(E)who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
    and like David (F)invent for themselves instruments of music,
(G)who drink wine in bowls
    and (H)anoint themselves with the finest oils,
    but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
(I)Therefore they shall now be the first of those who go into exile,
    and the revelry of those who stretch themselves out shall pass away.”

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You lie on beds adorned with ivory
    and lounge on your couches.(A)
You dine on choice lambs
    and fattened calves.(B)
You strum away on your harps(C) like David
    and improvise on musical instruments.(D)
You drink wine(E) by the bowlful
    and use the finest lotions,
    but you do not grieve(F) over the ruin of Joseph.(G)
Therefore you will be among the first to go into exile;(H)
    your feasting and lounging will end.(I)

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23 Take away from me the noise of your songs;
    to (A)the melody of your harps I will not listen.

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23 Away with the noise of your songs!
    I will not listen to the music of your harps.(A)

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