Amos 8:10
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10 I will turn your feasts into (A)mourning,
(B)And all your songs into lamentation;
(C)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.
Jeremiah 6:26
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26 O daughter of my people,
(A)Dress in sackcloth
(B)And roll about in ashes!
(C)Make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation;
For the plunderer will suddenly come upon us.
Zechariah 12:10
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Mourning for the Pierced One
10 (A)“And I will pour on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem the Spirit of grace and supplication; then they will (B)look on Me whom they pierced. Yes, they will mourn for Him (C)as one mourns for his only son, and grieve for Him as one grieves for a firstborn.
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Ezekiel 7:18
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18 They will also (A)be girded with sackcloth;
Horror will cover them;
Shame will be on every face,
Baldness on all their heads.
Jeremiah 48:37
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37 “For (A)every head shall be bald, and every beard clipped;
On all the hands shall be cuts, and (B)on the loins sackcloth—
Job 20:23
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23 When he is about to fill his stomach,
God will cast on him the fury of His wrath,
And will rain it on him while he is eating.
Luke 7:12-13
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12 And when He came near the gate of the city, behold, a dead man was being carried out, the only son of his mother; and she was a widow. And a large crowd from the city was with her. 13 When the Lord saw her, He had (A)compassion on her and said to her, (B)“Do not weep.”
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Hosea 2:11
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11 (A)I will also cause all her mirth to cease,
Her feast days,
Her New Moons,
Her Sabbaths—
All her appointed feasts.
Isaiah 15:2-3
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2 He has gone up to the [a]temple and Dibon,
To the high places to weep.
Moab will wail over Nebo and over Medeba;
(A)On all their heads will be baldness,
And every beard cut off.
3 In their streets they will clothe themselves with sackcloth;
On the tops of their houses
And in their streets
Everyone will wail, (B)weeping bitterly.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 15:2 Heb. bayith, lit. house
Nahum 1:10
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10 For while tangled (A)like thorns,
(B)And while drunken like drunkards,
(C)They shall be devoured like stubble fully dried.
Amos 8:3
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3 And (A)the songs of the temple
Shall be wailing in that day,”
Says the Lord God—
“Many dead bodies everywhere,
(B)They shall be thrown out in silence.”
Amos 6:4-7
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4 Who lie on beds of ivory,
Stretch out on your couches,
Eat lambs from the flock
And calves from the midst of the stall;
5 (A)Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments,
And invent for yourselves (B)musical instruments (C)like David;
6 Who (D)drink wine from bowls,
And anoint yourselves with the best ointments,
(E)But are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
7 Therefore they shall now go (F)captive as the first of the captives,
And those who recline at banquets shall be removed.
Amos 5:23
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23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
Daniel 5:4-6
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4 They drank wine, (A)and praised the gods of gold and silver, bronze and iron, wood and stone.
5 (B)In the same hour the fingers of a man’s hand appeared and wrote opposite the lampstand on the plaster of the wall of the king’s palace; and the king saw the part of the hand that wrote. 6 Then the king’s countenance changed, and his thoughts troubled him, so that the joints of his hips were loosened and his (C)knees knocked against each other.
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Ezekiel 27:30-31
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30 They will make their voice heard because of you;
They will cry bitterly and (A)cast dust on their heads;
They (B)will roll about in ashes;
31 They will (C)shave themselves completely bald because of you,
Gird themselves with sackcloth,
And weep for you
With bitterness of heart and bitter wailing.
Isaiah 22:12-14
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12 And in that day the Lord God of hosts
(A)Called for weeping and for mourning,
(B)For baldness and for girding with sackcloth.
13 But instead, joy and gladness,
Slaying oxen and killing sheep,
Eating meat and (C)drinking wine:
(D)“Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!”
14 (E)Then it was revealed in my hearing by the Lord of hosts,
“Surely for this iniquity there (F)will be no atonement for you,
Even to your death,” says the Lord God of hosts.
Isaiah 21:3-4
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3 Therefore (A)my loins are filled with pain;
(B)Pangs have taken hold of me, like the pangs of a woman in labor.
I was [a]distressed when I heard it;
I was dismayed when I saw it.
4 My heart wavered, fearfulness frightened me;
(C)The night for which I longed He turned into fear for me.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 21:3 Lit. bowed
Job 3:5
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5 May darkness and (A)the shadow of death claim it;
May a cloud settle on it;
May the blackness of the day terrify it.
2 Samuel 13:28-31
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28 Now Absalom had commanded his servants, saying, “Watch now, when Amnon’s (A)heart is merry with wine, and when I say to you, ‘Strike Amnon!’ then kill him. Do not be afraid. Have I not commanded you? Be courageous and [a]valiant.” 29 So the servants of Absalom (B)did to Amnon as Absalom had commanded. Then all the king’s sons arose, and each one got on (C)his mule and fled.
30 And it came to pass, while they were on the way, that news came to David, saying, “Absalom has killed all the king’s sons, and not one of them is left!” 31 So the king arose and (D)tore his garments and (E)lay on the ground, and all his servants stood by with their clothes torn.
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- 2 Samuel 13:28 Lit. sons of valor
1 Samuel 25:36-38
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36 Now Abigail went to Nabal, and there he was, (A)holding a feast in his house, like the feast of a king. And Nabal’s heart was merry within him, for he was very drunk; therefore she told him nothing, little or much, until morning light. 37 So it was, in the morning, when the wine had gone from Nabal, and his wife had told him these things, that his heart died within him, and he became like a stone. 38 Then it happened, after about ten days, that the Lord (B)struck Nabal, and he died.
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Deuteronomy 16:14
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14 And (A)you shall rejoice in your feast, you and your son and your daughter, your male servant and your female servant and the Levite, the stranger and the fatherless and the widow, who are within your [a]gates.
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- Deuteronomy 16:14 towns
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