“I 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.”
Amos 8:10 (WEB)
Context Reading
8Won’t the land tremble for this,and everyone mourn who dwells in it?Yes, it will rise up wholly like the River;and it will be stirred up and sink again, like the River of Egypt. 9It will happen in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh,“that I will cause the sun to go down at noon,and I will darken the earth in the clear day. 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. 11Behold, the days come,” says the Lord Yahweh,“that I will send a famine in the land,not a famine of bread,nor a thirst for water,but of hearing Yahweh’s words. 12They will wander from sea to sea,and from the north even to the east;they will run back and forth to seek Yahweh’s word,and will not find it.