And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon every waist, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it like the mourning of an only son, and its end as a bitter day.
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Baldness, the hair being cut in mourning, Job i. 20.
Son, most afflicted, Zacharias xii. 10., and Jeremias vi. 26. (Calmet)