Jer 6:26, Amo 8:10 | JFB | STEP | 26. wallow . . . in ashes — ( ). As they usually in mourning only "cast ashes on the head," wallowing in them means something more, namely, so entirely to cover one's self with ashes as to be like one who had rolled in them ( ). as for an only son — ( ). lamentation —literally, "lamentation expressed by beating the breast."

Jeremiah 6:26

26. wallow . . . in ashes— (Jer 25:34; Mic 1:10). As they usually in mourning only "cast ashes on the head," wallowing in them means something more, namely, so entirely to cover one's self with ashes as to be like one who had rolled in them (Eze 27:30).

as for an only son— (Am 8:10; Zec 12:10).

lamentation—literally, "lamentation expressed by beating the breast."

Amos 8:10

10. baldness—a sign of mourning (Isa 15:2; Jer 48:37; Eze 7:18).

I will make it as . . . mourning of an only son—"it," that is, "the earth" (Am 8:9). I will reduce the land to such a state that there shall be the same occasion for mourning as when parents mourn for an only son (Jer 6:26; Zec 12:10).