OLD TESTAMENT

Amos 8:10

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10

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.

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Verse 10. Baldness, the hair being cut in mourning. Job 1:20.—Son, most afflicted. Zechariah 12:10. Jeremiah 6:26. Calmet.

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