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10 I will turn your feasts into mourning,
    and all your songs into lamentation.
I will make you cover your loins with sackcloth
    and shave your heads.
I will make it like mourning for an only son
    and the end of it like a bitter day.[a]

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  1. Amos 8:10 The wearing of sackcloth and the shaving of the head were rites of mourning; mourning was especially solemn at the death of an only son, since this meant the end of the family line.