Amos 8:10
Amos 8:10 in 6 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.
10I will turn your religious festivals into mourning
and all your singing into weeping.
I will make all of you wear sackcloth
and shave your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son
and the end of it like a bitter day.
Read Amos 8 in NIV · About the NIV
10“Then I will turn your festivals into mourning,
And all your songs into songs of mourning;
And I will put sackcloth around everyone’s waist,
And 8:10 I.e., shaved as a sign of mourningbaldness on every head.
And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.
Read Amos 8 in NASB2020 · About the NASB2020
10Then I will turn your festivals into mourning
And all your songs into lamentation;
And I will bring sackcloth on everyone’s loins
And baldness on every head.
And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.
Read Amos 8 in NASB1995 · About the NASB1995
10“And I shall turn your festivals and feasts into mourning
And all your songs into dirges (funeral poems to be sung);
And I shall cause sackcloth to be put on everyone’s 8:10 The midsection of the body between the lower ribs and the thighs.loins
And baldness on every head [shaved for mourning].
And I shall make that time like a time of mourning for an only son [who has died],
And the end of it shall be like a bitter day.
Read Amos 8 in AMP · About the AMP
10I will turn your feasts into mourning
and all your songs into lamentation.
I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth
and every head to be shaved.
I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,
and its outcome like a bitter day.
Read Amos 8 in BSB · About the BSB
10I will turn your holy feasts into times for mourning.
I will turn all your songs into weeping.
You will have to wear the clothing of sadness.
You will shave your heads.
I will make you mourn as if your only son had died.
The end of that time will be like a bitter day.”
Read Amos 8 in NIrV · About the NIrV