Amos 8:10
New King James Version
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
New King James Version
23 Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.
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