Matthew Poole and continuators on Amos 8:10

10 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 .

Religious, though Idolatrous in your Temples, Vide ver. 3. let. † and k. and l. and your ordinary civil feasts in your Palaces.

See ver. 3. let. l.

This ingemination doth assure the thing, and forebode the sadness of their state.

As all inwardly shall be sadness, so all that appears outwardly shall speak their sorrow and sadness.

All sorts of persons should put on this mourning, and gird it close to their loins that it might afflict them the more, a custom very general in those times and places.

Partly pulling off the hair of the head through anguish, or shaving the head and beard in sign of greatest sadness as the Eastern people did, Vid. Mic. 1.16.

This is accounted the greatest mourning, and seems proverbially to express such mourning, Ier. 6.26. and Zech. 12.10. which see; so God will afflict this people with greatest sorrows, and fill them with greatest mourning.

You may hope these troubles will over, and come to an end, but that will be little to your comfort.

A bitter day, which ye[illegible: 1 letter] shall wish you had never seen, shall succeed your dark night, as indeed it doth to this day.

Marginal references: [illegible: 1 letter]sa. 15.2. [illegible: 1 word] 48.37. [illegible: 1 word] 7.18.