And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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Gill's Exposition
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation,.... Either their religious feasts, the feasts of pentecost, tabernacles, and passover; at which three feasts there were…
Barnes' Notes
I will turn your feasts into mourning - He recurs to the sentence which he had pronounced Amo 8:3, before he described the avarice and oppression which brought it down. Hosea too had foretold, “I will…
Adam Clarke
I will turn your feasts into mourning - See on Amo 8:3 (note).
A bitter day - A time of grievous calamity.
God is here contending with proud oppressors, and showing them,
I. The heinousness of the sin they were guilty of; in short, they had the character of the unjust judge (Luk 18:2) that neither feared…
Cambridge Bible
The lamentation to be produced by such an alarming spectacle.
And I will turn your pilgrimages into mourning The sacred pilgrimages (Amo 5:21) were occasions of rejoicing: cf. Isa 30:29; Hos 2:11 "And…
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