Amos 8:10
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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.
Jeremiah 6:26
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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.
Zechariah 12:10
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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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Ezekiel 7:18
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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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Jeremiah 48:37
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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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Job 20:23
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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.
Footnotes
- Job 20:23 Hebrew he
Luke 7:12-13
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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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Hosea 2:11
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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.
Isaiah 15:2-3
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2 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;
3 in the streets they wear sackcloth;
on the housetops and in the squares
everyone wails and melts in tears.
Footnotes
- Isaiah 15:2 Hebrew the house
- Isaiah 15:2 Or temple, even Dibon to the high places
Nahum 1:10
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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.
Amos 6:4-7
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4 “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,
5 (E)who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
and like David (F)invent for themselves instruments of music,
6 (G)who drink wine in bowls
and (H)anoint themselves with the finest oils,
but are not grieved over the ruin of Joseph!
7 (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.”
Amos 5:23
English Standard Version
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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