Amos 8:10

“And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into a funeral song; and I will bring up on all loins sackcloth, and on every head baldness; and I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.”

Amos 8:10 · direct translation from the Hebrew
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Amos 8:10, word by word

And I will turnהָפַכְתִּיhafachti

change

To change something into something else.

Where else “hafachti” appears
your feastsחַגֵּיchage

festival

Festival in honor of God, with pilgrimage.

Where else “chage” appears
into mourningאֵבֶלevel

mourning

Mourning, grief for one who has died.

Where else “evel” appears
your songsשִׁירֵיshire

song

A composition sung with words and melody, to praise or celebrate.

Where else “shire” appears
into a funeral songקִינָהkina

lament, dirge

Dirge: a poem sung over someone's death or over a disaster. The Hebrew name of the book of Lamentations comes from this word.

Where else “kina” appears
and I will bring upהַעֲלֵיתִיhaaleti

bring up

To make someone go up: "I led you up from Egypt".

Where else “haaleti” appears
loinsמָתְנַיִםmatnayim

waist, loins

Waist, loins.

Where else “matnayim” appears
sackclothשָׂקsak

sackcloth

Rough cloth worn in mourning.

Where else “sak” appears
headרֹאשׁrosh

head

The upper part of the body, where the face and hair are.

Where else “rosh” appears
baldnessקָרְחָהkarcha

baldness

A bald spot: a part of the head shaved bare as a sign of mourning.

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and I will make itשַׂמְתִּיsamti

make

To turn something into another: "I will turn him into a nation".

Where else “samti” appears
for an only sonיָחִידyachid

only

The only child of his parents, the most beloved.

Where else “yachid” appears
and its endאַחֲרִיתָacharita

end

Where something ends, and how it ends.

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like a bitterמָרmar

bitterness

Deep pain of soul, or the cruelty that causes it.

Where else “mar” appears
dayיוֹםyom

day

The day, the hours of light, or a whole day.

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The context

9And it will happen on that day, declares Adonai YHWH, that I will make the sun go down at noon, and darken the earth in broad daylight.

10 · This verse (above)

11Look, days are coming, declares Adonai YHWH, when I will send a famine on the land; not a famine for bread, and not a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of YHWH.

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