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10 I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on all loins
    and baldness on every head;
I will make it like the mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.(A)

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Then I remembered the prophecy of Amos, how he said against Bethel,

    “Your festivals shall be turned into mourning
    and all your songs[a] into lamentation.”

And I wept.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 2.6 OL mss: S reads ways

45 Jerusalem was uninhabited like a wilderness;
    not one of her children went in or out.
The sanctuary was trampled down,
    and strangers held the citadel;
    it was a lodging place for the nations.
Joy was taken from Jacob;
    the flute and the harp ceased to play.(A)

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