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I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring sackcloth on all loins, and baldness on every head; and I will make it as the mourning for an only son, and the end of it as a bitter day.
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Hollow Worship Provokes God
Commentators like Calvin explain that God specifically targets Israel's 'feasts' and 'songs' because their worship was hypocritical. They used religious ceremonies to cover up their oppression of the poor, thinking it would appease God. This verse serves as a stark warning that religious activity without genuine justice and righteousness is not just empty but actually provokes divine judgment.
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Amos
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18th Century
Presbyterian
I will turn your feasts into mourning - He returns to the sentence that he had pronounced (Amos 8:3), before he describ…
19th Century
Anglican
The imagery is very vivid. The prophet threatens a famine of the word of Jehovah, and a parching thirst for the Water of Life, now no longer attain…
16th Century
Protestant
The Prophet pursues the same subject, but he omits the figurative mode he had previously adopted. He therefore denounces vengeance more openly: tha…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation
Eith…
The rich and powerful of the land were the most guilty of oppression, as well as the foremost in idolatry. They were weary of the restraints of the…
