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Amos 8:10-12
New English Translation
Amos 8:10-12
New English Translation
10 I will turn your festivals into funerals[a]
and all your songs into funeral dirges.
I will make everyone wear funeral clothes[b]
and cause every head to be shaved bald.[c]
I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son;[d]
when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.[e]
11 Be certain of this,[f] the time is[g] coming,” says the Sovereign Lord,
“when I will send a famine through the land—
not a shortage of food or water
but an end to divine revelation.[h]
12 People[i] will stagger from sea to sea,[j]
and from the north around to the east.
They will wander about looking for a message from the Lord,
but they will not find any.[k]
Footnotes
- Amos 8:10 tn Heb “mourning.”
- Amos 8:10 tn Heb “I will place sackcloth on all waists.”sn Mourners wore sackcloth (funeral clothes) as an outward expression of grief.
- Amos 8:10 tn Heb “and make every head bald.” This could be understood in a variety of ways, while the ritual act of mourning typically involved shaving the head (although occasionally the hair could be torn out as a sign of mourning).sn Shaving the head or tearing out one’s hair was a ritual act of mourning. See Lev 21:5; Deut 14:1; Isa 3:24; 15:2; Jer 47:5; 48:37; Ezek 7:18; 27:31; Mic 1:16.
- Amos 8:10 tn Heb “I will make it like the mourning for an only son.”
- Amos 8:10 tn Heb “and its end will be like a bitter day.” The Hebrew preposition כְּ (kaf) sometimes carries the force of “in every respect,” indicating identity rather than mere comparison.
- Amos 8:11 tn Heb “behold” or “look.”
- Amos 8:11 tn Heb “the days are.”
- Amos 8:11 tn Heb “not a hunger for food or a thirst for water, but for hearing the words of the Lord.”
- Amos 8:12 tn Heb “they”; the referent (people) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
- Amos 8:12 tn That is, from the Mediterranean Sea in the west to the Dead Sea in the east—namely, across the whole land.
- Amos 8:12 tn It is not clear whether the speaker in this verse is the Lord or the prophet.
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