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Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Amos 8:10

Feasts] religious, not secular. The cloth of camel's or goat's hair was bound round the loins with a cord. Shaving the head was a sign of mourning (Leviticus 21:5; Isaiah 22:12). This day would end as badly as it began.

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See also Amos 8:10 in other biblical comments:

  • Adam Clarke Bible Commentary

    Verse Amos 8:10. _I WILL TURN YOUR FEASTS INTO MOURNING_] See on Amos 8:3. _A BITTER DAY._] A time of grievous calamity....

  • Albert Barnes' Bible Commentary

    I WILL TURN YOUR FEASTS INTO MOURNING - He recurs to the sentence which he had pronounced Amos 8:3, before he described the avarice and oppression which brought it down. Hosea too had foretold, “I wil...

  • Annotated Bible by A.C. Gaebelein

    CHAPTER 8 The Fourth Vision: The Basket With Summer Fruit _ 1. The vision (Amos 8:1) _ 2. Israel ripe for judgment (Amos 8:4) 3. The coming days of famine (Amos 8:11)...

  • Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

    DEVELOPMENT OF THE THEME OF AMOS 3. This section, which re-echoes Amos 2:6, has been regarded as a conglomeration of rather loosely-connected fragments (_cf._ G. A. Smith). The prophet addresses himse...

  • Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

    YOUR FEASTS. Reference to Pentateuch (Exodus 12:14; Exodus 23:15; Exodus 23:16; Leviticus 23). App-92. SACKCLOTH. BALDNESS. The outward symb

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    A fresh denunciation of Israel's sin, followed by a fresh picture of the impending calamities....

  • Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges

    The lamentation to be produced by such an alarming spectacle. _And I will turn your_ PILGRIMAGES _into mourning_ The sacred pilgrimages (Amos 5:21) were occasions of rejoicing: cf. Isaiah 30:29; Hosea...

  • Charles Box Commentaries

    _THE NATURE OF ISRAEL'S JUDGMENT -- AMOS 8:7-10:_ Israel was prideful or arrogant about the fact that they were descendants of Jacob. God told them that this fact would not cause Him to forget any of...

  • Coke's Commentary on the Holy Bible

    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 abo...

  • College Press Bible Study Textbook Series

    DESCRIPTION OF JUDGMENTS PROPHESIEDBITTER MOURNING TEXT: Amos 8:7-10 7 Jehovah hath sworn by the excellency of Jacob, Surely I will never forget any of their works. 8 Shall not the land tremble f...

  • Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

    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 on...

  • EasyEnglish Bible Commentaries

    THE MAN WITH A DIFFICULT MESSAGE FROM GOD AMOS _MARK KIRKPATRICK_ CHAPTER 8 A PICTURE OF A BASKET OF FRUIT V1 This is what the *Lord the Ruler showed me: I saw a basket of ripe fruit. V2 The *L...

  • Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

    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 t...

  • ETCBC data on Hebrew bible

    וְ הָפַכְתִּ֨י חַגֵּיכֶ֜ם לְ אֵ֗בֶל וְ כָל

  • Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

    1. EARTHQUAKE, ECLIPSE, AND FAMINE Amos 8:4 "Hear this, ye who trample the needy, and would put an end to the lowly of the land, saying, When will the New-Moon be over, that we may sell grain, and th...

  • Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

    THE WORST FAMINE OF ALL Amos 8:1-14 What is more fragile than summer fruit! So beautiful, so refreshing, yet so readily corrupted and diseased. To Amos it was an emblem of the rapidity with which dis...

  • G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

    The next vision, that of the basket of summer fruit, indicated the im minence of the judgment. Jehovah declared that the end was come, that He would not pass by them any more. This announcement was f...

  • George Haydock's Catholic Bible Commentary

    _Baldness, the hair being cut in mourning, Job i. 20. --- Son, most afflicted, Zacharias xii. 10., and Jeremias vi. 26. (Calmet)_...

  • Hawker's Poor man's commentary

    When devotion itself is out of tune by the heart being under no influences of grace; alas! what a sacrifice of fools is then offered! Sabbaths are burdens, ordinances tiresome, prayer a drudgery, in s...

  • Introductory Lectures - Commentary by William Kelly

    Lectures on the Minor Prophets. W. Kelly. "The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the...

  • John Calvin's Bible Commentary

    The Prophet pursues the same subject; but he omits the figurative mode which he had before adopted. He therefore denounces vengeance more openly, — that God would turn their festal-days into mourning,...

  • John Darby's Synopsis

    Chapter 8 renews the declaration, that the end of Israel was come on account of their iniquity. God would no longer pass it over. The prophet announces likewise the distress the people should come int...

  • John Gill's Exposition of the Whole Bible

    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...

  • John Trapp Complete Commentary

    _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 on...

  • Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    _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 an...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    A LAST ADMONITION OF THE LORD...

  • Kretzmann's Popular Commentary of the Bible

    and I will turn your feasts into mourning, taking away all joy, AND ALL YOUR SONGS INTO LAMENTATION, Cf Hosea 2:13; AND I WILL BRING UP SACKCLOTH UPON ALL LOINS, the usual garment of deepest grief, AN...

  • Matthew Henry Commentary on the Whole Bible

    4-10 The rich and powerful of the land were the most guilty of oppression, as well as the foremost in idolatry. They were weary of the restraints of the sabbaths and the new moons, and wished them ov...

  • Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary On The Bible

    I WILL TURN YOUR FEASTS, religious, though idolatrous in your temples, see AMOS 8:3, and your ordinary civil feasts in your palaces, into mourning: see AMOS 8:3. AND ALL YOUR SONGS INTO LAMENTATION: t...

  • Patchworkid's Personal Study Bible Notes

    Amos 8:10 turn H2015 (H8804) feasts H2282 mourning H60 songs H7892 lamentation H7015 bring H5927 (H8689) sackcloth...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE CONSEQUENCES OF THE JUDGMENT (AMOS 8:8). For these people there would be a heavy price to pay because of their sins. The land would tremble and all its inhabitants mourn. For YHWH was about to br...

  • Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

    THE FOURTH VISION - THE VISION OF THE BASKET OF SUMMER FRUIT INDICATING THAT ISRAEL WERE ABOUT TO BE HARVESTED (AMOS 8:1). In his fourth vision Amos was shown a basket of summer fruit (e.g. figs and p...

  • Summarized Bible Commentary

    CONTENTS: The basket of summer fruit foretelling Israel's near ruin. Summary of the case against Israel. CHARACTERS: God, Amos. CONCLUSION: The time of God's patience draws surely to a conclusion, a...

  • Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

    Amos 8:1. _A basket of summer fruit._ The Lord would not wait till the vintage; he would cause their sun, as a nation, to set at noon, and rise no more. Amos 8:5. _That we may sell corn making the eph...

  • The Biblical Illustrator

    _Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy._ AVARICE I. It is execrable in its spirit. 1. It is sacrilegious. Bad as Israel was, it still kept up the mere observances of religion, yet these observa...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:1 In powerful word-pictures, Amos describes the final end of Israel. ⇐ ⇔...

  • The ESV Global Study Bible's Study Notes

    AMOS—NOTE ON AMOS 8:9 Israel’s destruction will be so terrible that even nature will go into mourning, with the SUN hiding its face. This is similar to the darkness that covered the earth when God’s o...

  • The Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

    CRITICAL NOTES.] AMOS 8:4. HEAR] The nobles hated reproof. SWALLOW] Heb. gape after, earnestly desire (Job 7:2); pant after goods as wild beasts for prey. They sought to rid the land of all the poor....

  • The Pulpit Commentaries

    EXPOSITION AMOS 8:1 § 5. _In the fourth vision, the basket of summer fruit, the Lord shows that the people is ripe for judgment. _Explaining this revelation, Amos denounces the oppression and greed...

  • Through The Bible C2000 Serie by Chuck Smith

    Now in chapter 8: Thus hath the Lord GOD showed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit (Amos 8:1). So now another vision, and in this vision he sees this summer fruit, apricots and peaches, pl...

  • Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

    1 Samuel 25:36; 2 Samuel 13:28; Amos 5:23; Amos 6:4; Amos 8:3;...

  • Wesley's Explanatory Notes

    Upon all loins — All sorts of persons shall put on mourning. Baldness — Shaving the head and beard was a sign of the greatest sadness. A bitter day — A bitter day, which you shall wish you had never s...

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