Amos 8:10

Amos 8:10 in 10 English translations. Each links through to the full chapter for context.

New International Version (NIV)

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.

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New American Standard Bible - NASB (NASB2020)

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 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.

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Amplified Bible (AMP)

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 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.

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

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.

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American Standard Version (ASV)

10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

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Geneva Bible (GNV)

10And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring sackcloth vpon all loynes, and baldnes vpon euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onely sonne, and the ende thereof as a bitter day.

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World English Bible, American English Edition, without Strong's Numbers (WEBUS)

10I will turn your feasts into mourning,

and all your songs into lamentation;

and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies,

and baldness on every head.

I will make it like the mourning for an only son,

and its end like a bitter day.

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New International Reader’s Version (NIrV)

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.”

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EasyEnglish Bible 2024 (EASY)

10Your parties will become funerals. You will not sing happy songs but you will weep. You will wear rough clothes and you will cut off all your hair. You will be as sad as if your only son had died. That will be a very bad day for you.’

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Literal Standard Version (LSV)

10And have turned your festivals to mourning, || And all your songs to lamentation, || And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, || And on every head—baldness, || And made it as a mourning of an only one, || And its latter end as a day of bitterness.

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