Amos 8:10

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10 Ég vil snúa hátíðum yðar í sorg og öllum ljóðum yðar í harmkvæði, klæða allar mjaðmir í sorgarbúning og gjöra öll höfuð sköllótt. Ég læt það verða eins og sorg eftir einkason og endalok þess sem beiskan dag.

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I will turn: Amos 8:3, Amos 5:23, Amos 6:4-7, Deuteronomy 16:14, 1 Samuel 25:36-38, 2 Samuel 13:28-31, Job 20:23, Isaiah 21:3, Isaiah 21:4, Isaiah 22:12-14, Daniel 5:4-6, Hosea 2:11, Nahum 1:10

sackcloth: Isaiah 15:2, Isaiah 15:3, Jeremiah 48:37, Ezekiel 7:18, Ezekiel 27:30, Ezekiel 27:31

as the: Jeremiah 6:26, Zechariah 12:10, Luke 7:12, Luke 7:13

a bitter: Job 3:5, *marg.

Reciprocal: Exodus 32:6 - sat down Leviticus 21:5 - not make baldness Psalms 137:2 - we hanged Ecclesiastes 7:6 - as Isaiah 3:24 - a girding Isaiah 13:10 - General Isaiah 24:9 - General Jeremiah 2:19 - bitter Jeremiah 4:8 - gird Jeremiah 13:16 - before Jeremiah 15:9 - her sun Jeremiah 30:5 - a voice Lamentations 5:15 - our dance Ezekiel 7:2 - An end Hosea 9:1 - Rejoice Amos 5:16 - Wailing Amos 8:8 - every one Micah 1:16 - bald Micah 3:6 - the sun Zechariah 11:17 - the sword Mark 15:33 - darkness Luke 6:25 - mourn Luke 21:25 - signs

Gill's Notes on the Bible

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation,.... Either their religious feasts, the feasts of pentecost, tabernacles, and passover; at which three feasts there were eclipses of the sun, a few years after this prophecy of Amos, as Bishop Usher q observes: the first was an eclipse of the sun about ten digits, in the year 3213 A.M. or 791 B.C., June twenty fourth, at the feast of pentecost; the next was almost twelve digits, about eleven years after, on November eighth, 780 B.C., at the feast of the tabernacles; and the third was more than eleven digits in the following year, 779 B.C., on May fifth, at the feast of the passover; which the prophecy may literally refer to, and which might occasion great sorrow and concern, and especially at what they might be thought to forebode: but particularly this was fulfilled when these feasts could not be observed any longer, nor the songs used at them sung any more; or else their feasts, and songs at them, in their own houses, in which they indulged themselves in mirth and jollity; but now, instead thereof, there would be mourning and lamentation the loss of their friends, and being carried captive into a strange land;

and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins; of high and low, rich and poor; even those that used to be covered with silk and rich embroideries: sackcloth was a coarse cloth put on in times of mourning for the dead, or on account of public calamities:

and baldness upon every head: the hair being either shaved off or pulled off; both which were sometimes done, as a token of mourning:

and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son]; as when parents mourn for an only son, which is generally carried to the greatest height, and continued longest, as well as is most sincere and passionate; the case being exceeding cutting and afflictive, as this is hereby represented to be:

and the end thereof as a bitter day; a day of bitter calamity, and of bitter wailing and mourning, in the bitterness of their spirits; though the beginning of the day was bright and clear, a fine sunshine, yet the end of it dark and bitter, distressing and sorrowful, it being the end of the people of Israel, as in Amos 8:2.

q Annales Vet. Test. ad A. M. 3213.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

I will turn your feasts into mourning - He recurs to the sentence which he had pronounced Amos 8:3, before he described the avarice and oppression which brought it down. Hosea too had foretold, “I will cause all her mirth to cease, her feast-days, etc” Hosea 2:11. So Jeremiah describes, “the joy of our heart is ceased; our dance is turned into mourning” Lamentations 5:15. The Book of Tobit bears witness how these sayings of Amos lived in the hearts of the captive Israelites. The word of God seems oftentimes to fail, yet it finds those who are His. “I remembered,” he said, “that prophecy of Amos, your feasts shall be turned into mourning” (Tobit 2:6).

The correspondence of these words with the miracle at our Blessed Lord’s Passion, in that “the earth was darkened in the clear day, at noon-day,” was noticed by the earliest fathers , and that the more, since it took place at the Feast of the Passover, and, in punishment for that sin, their “feasts were turned into mourning,” in the desolation of their country and the cessation of their worship.

I will bring up sackcloth - (that is, the rough coarse haircloth, which, being fastened with the girdle tight over the loins (see above Joel 1:8, Joel 1:13, pp. 107, 109), was wearing to the frame) “and baldness upon every head.” The mourning of the Jews was no half-mourning, no painless change of one color of becoming dress for another. For the time, they were dead to the world or to enjoyment. As the clothing was coarse, uncomely, distressing, so they laid aside every ornament, the ornament of their hair also (as English widows used, on the same principle, to cover it). They shore it off; each sex, what was the pride of their sex; the men, their beards; the women, their long hair. The strong words, “baldness, is balded Jeremiah 16:6, shear Micah 1:16; Jeremiah 7:29, hew off, enlarge thy baldness” , are used to show the completeness of this expression of sorrow. None exempted themselves in the universal sorrow; “on every head” came up “baldness.”

And I will make it - (probably, the whole state and condition of things, everything, as we use our “it”) as the mourning of an only son As, when God delivered Israel from Egypt, “there was not,” among the Egyptians: “a house where there was not one dead Exodus 12:30, and one universal cry arose from end to end of the land, so now too in apostate Israel. The whole mourning should be the one most grievous mourning of parents, over the one child in whom they themselves seemed anew to live.

And the end thereof as a bitter day - Most griefs have a rest or pause, or wear themselves out. “The end” of this should be like the beginning, nay, one concentrated grief, a whole day of bitter grief summed up in its close. It was to be no passing trouble, but one which should end in bitterness, an unending sorrow and destruction; image of the undying death in hell.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Amos 8:10. I will turn your feasts into mourning — See on Amos 8:3.

A bitter day. — A time of grievous calamity.