阿摩司書 8:10

10 我 必 使 你 們 的 節 期 變 為 悲 哀 ， 歌 曲 變 為 哀 歌 。 眾 人 腰 束 麻 布 ， 頭 上 光 禿 ， 使 這 場 悲 哀 如 喪 獨 生 子 ， 至 終 如 痛 苦 的 日 子 一 樣 。

阿摩司書 8:10 Meaning and Commentary

Amos 8:10

And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs
into lamentation
Either their religious feasts, the feasts of pentecost, tabernacles, and passover; at which three feasts there were eclipses of the sun, a few years after this prophecy of Amos, as Bishop Usher ^F17 observes: the first was an eclipse of the sun about ten digits, in the year 3213 A.M. or 791 B.C., June twenty fourth, at the feast of pentecost; the next was almost twelve digits, about eleven years after, on November eighth, 780 B.C., at the feast of the tabernacles; and the third was more than eleven digits in the following year, 779 B.C., on May fifth, at the feast of the passover; which the prophecy may literally refer to, and which might occasion great sorrow and concern, and especially at what they might be thought to forebode: but particularly this was fulfilled when these feasts could not be observed any longer, nor the songs used at them sung any more; or else their feasts, and songs at them, in their own houses, in which they indulged themselves in mirth and jollity; but now, instead thereof, there would be mourning and lamentation the loss of their friends, and being carried captive into a strange land; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins;
of high and low, rich and poor; even those that used to be covered with silk and rich embroideries: sackcloth was a coarse cloth put on in times of mourning for the dead, or on account of public calamities: and baldness upon every head:
the hair being either shaved off or pulled off; both which were sometimes done, as a token of mourning: and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son];
as when parents mourn for an only son, which is generally carried to the greatest height, and continued longest, as well as is most sincere and passionate; the case being exceeding cutting and afflictive, as this is hereby represented to be: and the end thereof as a bitter day;
a day of bitter calamity, and of bitter wailing and mourning, in the bitterness of their spirits; though the beginning of the day was bright and clear, a fine sunshine, yet the end of it dark and bitter, distressing and sorrowful, it being the end of the people of Israel, as in ( Amos 8:2 ) .

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FOOTNOTES:

F17 Annales Vet. Test. ad A. M. 3213.

阿摩司書 8:10 In-Context

8 地 豈 不 因 這 事 震 動 ？ 其 上 的 居 民 不 也 悲 哀 嗎 ？ 地 必 全 然 像 尼 羅 河 漲 起 ， 如 同 埃 及 河 湧 上 落 下 。

9 主 耶 和 華 說 ： 到 那 日 ， 我 必 使 日 頭 在 午 間 落 下 ， 使 地 在 白 晝 黑 暗 。

10 我 必 使 你 們 的 節 期 變 為 悲 哀 ， 歌 曲 變 為 哀 歌 。 眾 人 腰 束 麻 布 ， 頭 上 光 禿 ， 使 這 場 悲 哀 如 喪 獨 生 子 ， 至 終 如 痛 苦 的 日 子 一 樣 。

11 主 耶 和 華 說 ： 日 子 將 到 ， 我 必 命 饑 荒 降 在 地 上 。 人 飢 餓 非 因 無 餅 ， 乾 渴 非 因 無 水 ， 乃 因 不 聽 耶 和 華 的 話 。

12 他 們 必 飄 流 ， 從 這 海 到 那 海 ， 從 北 邊 到 東 邊 ， 往 來 奔 跑 ， 尋 求 耶 和 華 的 話 ， 卻 尋 不 著 。