John Trapp on Amos 8:10

Verſe 10. And I will turn your feaſts into mourning] Whether your idolatrous feaſts and temple-muſick whereby you vainely conceit to be ſecured from danger, ſaying, Is not the Lord amongſt us? what evill can come unto us. Or your common feaſts, whereat you have ſongs to cheer you up, and ſo to put ſorrow from your hearts, and evill from your fleſh, nouriſhing your ſelves as in a day of ſlaughter, or good cheer Jam. 5.5. All ſhall be turned into mourning, funerall mourning, ſee ver. 3.

and I will bring up ſack-cloth upon all loynes] for a token of your great grief, as the cuſtome then was, and is ſtill for mourning-weedes. The Hebew word ſack is the ſame in almoſt all languages: which ſheweth that the Hebrew is the mother of all the reſt, ſaith Mercer.

and baldneſſe upon every head] you ſhall pull off your haire for grief; Or, becauſe they had learned of the Heathens their neighbours, in token of lamentation, to ſhave their heades Ezech. 7.18. Jer. 48.37. and beards too Iſa. 15.2. which yet was forbidden them to do, Lev. 19.27. and 21, 9. unleſſe it were to ſhew their ſorrow for ſin Eſa. 22.12.

and I will make it as the mourning of an only ſon] which was very bitter Jer. 6.26. Zech. 12.10. The loſſe of a loving yoke fellow is more grievous then that of a ſon: but to father and mother together nothing more bitter then luctuoſa foecunditas (Laeta's caſe in Hierome) to bury many children, and eſpecially to bury all in One.

and the end thereof as a bitter day] Thereof, that is, either of that land, or of that lamentation, there ſhall be bitterneſſe in the end. So the Poet Nunc & amara dies, & noctis amarior umbra eſt;Tioul. lib: 2. Omnia jam triſti tempora felle madent. How could it be otherwiſe then extream bitter with this people, when heaven and earth conſpired to puniſh them? neither had they the good word of God (called the word of his patience, Rev. 3.10. written on purpoſe that we through patience and comfort of the ſcriptures might have hope Rom. 15.4. that out of thoſe breaſts of conſolation we might ſuck and be ſatisfied, Eſa. 66.11.) to ſuccour them and keep from ſwooning Pſal. 119.92. And this was the greateſt plague of all the reſt: and is therefore reſerved to the laſt place, deterrima tanquam colophon, as a moſt ſad cataſtrophe.