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Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - Amos 8:10

Amos 8:10. I will turn your feasts into mourning God commanded the Jews to celebrate their festivals with joy and gladness; but this it would be impossible for them to do under such melancholy circumstances and manifestations of the divine displeasure. And all your songs into lamentation The particular psalms and hymns which used to be sung at the great festivals are here alluded to. And I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins All sorts of persons shall put on mourning. And baldness... read more

Donald C. Fleming

Bridgeway Bible Commentary - Amos 8:1-14

Israel nears its end (8:1-14)Just as the harvest comes to an end and the fruit is gathered into baskets, so Israel has come to its end and will be punished. Celebration will be turned to mourning, and hope will be replaced by despair. When the enemy attacks, the slaughter will be so extensive that bodies will lie unburied in the streets and fields for days (8:1-3).Amos returns to conditions in Israel to indicate that one reason for the nation’s downfall is the upper classes’ exploitation of the... read more

E.W. Bullinger

E.W. Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes - Amos 8:10

your feasts. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 12:14 ; Exodus 23:15 , Exodus 23:16 . Leviticus 23:0 ). App-92 . sackcloth. baldness. The outward symbols of mourning. Compare Amos 8:3 .Isaiah 15:2 .Ezekiel 7:18 . it: i.e. the land. read more

James Burton Coffman

Coffman Commentaries on the Bible - Amos 8:10

"And 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."There is not a figurative or symbolical word in this verse, strongly suggesting that the previous verse (Amos 8:9) is also to be understood literally. We may therefore reject the interpretation that explains it thus:"To any man, the sun sets at noon, when... read more

Thomas Coke

Thomas Coke Commentary on the Holy Bible - Amos 8:9-10

Amos 8:9-10. And it shall come to pass, &c.— Times of calamity are frequently expressed by the failing of the light of the sun, and the day's being overspread with darkness. Archbishop Usher has observed, that about eleven years after the time when Amos prophesied, there were two great eclipses of the sun; one at the feast of tabernacles, the other some time before the passover; so that the text may probably be understood of that darkness, used here to typify the dreadful calamities of... read more

Robert Jamieson; A. R. Fausset; David Brown

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible - Amos 8:10

10. baldness—a sign of mourning (Isaiah 15:2; Jeremiah 48:37; Ezekiel 7:18). I will make it as . . . mourning of an only son—"it," that is, "the earth" (Amos 8:9). I will reduce the land to such a state that there shall be the same occasion for mourning as when parents mourn for an only son (Jeremiah 6:26; Zechariah 12:10). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 8:7-10

The wailing of the sufferers 8:7-10The following two passages (Amos 8:7-14) describe more fully the two results of God’s judgment mentioned earlier, namely, wailing and silence (cf. Amos 8:3). read more

Thomas Constable

Expository Notes of Dr. Thomas Constable - Amos 8:10

Then Yahweh would turn their festivals into funerals and their melodious singing into mourning. The people would wear sackcloth and shave their heads as signs of their grief. Mourning would come because judgment had come. It would be as sad a time as the death of an only son. The death of an only son meant the extinguishing of hope for the future and the losing of provision for one’s old age. The end of that day would be bitter indeed. read more

John Dummelow

John Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible - Amos 8:1-14

The Vision of the Ripe Fruit, followed by a Fifth Address1-3. The vision. 4-14. The address, denouncing dishonest traders (Amos 8:4-6), threatening earthquakes, eclipse, mourning, a painful sense of abandonment by God, an utter destruction of the superstitious (Amos 8:7-14).1-3. Notwithstanding the interference of Amaziah, the prophet finishes the recital of his visions.1, 2. Another play on words—qayits is the word for ripe fruit, and qçts for end. We might represent it by, ’A basket of ripe... read more

Charles John Ellicott

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - Amos 8:10-11

(10, 11) The imagery is very vivid. The prophet threatens a famine of the word of Jehovah, and a parching thirst for the Water of Life, now no longer attainable. Such terrible destitution often supervenes on the neglect of the Word of God, the power to discern the ever-present Word being exhausted. Then comes the withdrawal of revelation, the silence of seers. One of the awful dooms of unbelief in the next world will be this famine, this hopeless thirst and fathomless suspense. read more