Amos 8:10

10  I will turn your feasts into mourning

and ball your songs into lamentation;

cI will bring sackcloth on every waist

and dbaldness on every head;

I will make it like the mourning efor an only son

and the end of it like a bitter day.

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Isaiah 24:8
The mirth of the tambourines is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled.

Jeremiah 7:34
And I will silence in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem the voice of mirth and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride, for the land shall become a waste.

Lamentations 5:14
The old men have left the city gate, the young men their music.

Ezekiel 26:13
And I will stop the music of your songs, and the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

Hosea 2:11
And I will put an end to all her mirth, her feasts, her new moons, her Sabbaths, and all her appointed feasts.

Revelation 18:22
and the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will be heard in you no more, and a craftsman of any craft will be found in you no more, and the sound of the mill will be heard in you no more,

Isaiah 22:12
In that day the Lord GOD of hosts called for weeping and mourning, for baldness and wearing sackcloth;

Ezekiel 27:31
they make themselves bald for you and put sackcloth on their waist, and they weep over you in bitterness of soul, with bitter mourning.

Jeremiah 6:26
O daughter of my people, put on sackcloth, and roll in ashes; make mourning as for an only son, most bitter lamentation, for suddenly the destroyer will come upon us.


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