10 Then I will (A)turn your festivals into mourning,
And all your songs into songs of mourning;
And I will put (B)sackcloth around everyone’s waist,
And [a]baldness on every head.
And I will make it (C)like a time of mourning for an only son,
And the end of it will be like a bitter day.

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  1. Amos 8:10 I.e., shaved as a sign of mourning

10 I will turn your religious festivals(A) into mourning
    and all your singing into weeping.(B)
I will make all of you wear sackcloth(C)
    and shave(D) your heads.
I will make that time like mourning for an only son(E)
    and the end of it like a bitter day.(F)

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10 “And I will (A)pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of Jerusalem [a]the Spirit of grace and of pleading, so that they will look at Me whom they (B)pierced; and they will mourn for Him, like one (C)mourning for an only son, and they will weep bitterly over Him like the bitter weeping over a firstborn.

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  1. Zechariah 12:10 Or a spirit

Mourning for the One They Pierced

10 “And I will pour out on the house of David and the inhabitants of Jerusalem a spirit[a](A) of grace and supplication.(B) They will look on[b] me, the one they have pierced,(C) and they will mourn for him as one mourns for an only child,(D) and grieve bitterly for him as one grieves for a firstborn son.(E)

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  1. Zechariah 12:10 Or the Spirit
  2. Zechariah 12:10 Or to