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Amos 8:10

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I will turn: Amos 8:3, Amos 5:23, Amos 6:4-7; Deuteronomy 16:14; 1 Samuel 25:36-38; 2 Samuel 13:28-31; Job 20:23; Isaiah 21:3-4, Isaiah 22:12-14; Daniel 5:4-6; Hosea 2:11; Nahum 1:10

sackcloth: Isaiah 15:2-3; Jeremiah 48:37; Ezekiel 7:18, Ezekiel 27:30-31

as the: Jeremiah 6:26; Zechariah 12:10; Luke 7:12-13

a bitter: Job 3:5 *marg.

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