Amos 8:3
“In that day,” declares the Lord God, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
Note Or the singing women
Note Or palace
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Note shall be howlings: Heb. shall howl
Note with…: Heb. be silent
The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord God. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many; in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.
Related passages
From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, grouped by the word they explain.
- the songs
- Amos 8:10; Amos 5:23; Hosea 10:5, 6; Joel 1:5, 11, 13; Zechariah 11:1–3
- shall be howlings
- Heb. shall howl. many.
- Amos 4:10; Isaiah 37:36; Jeremiah 9:21, 22; Nahum 3:3
- they shall
- Amos 6:9, 10; Jeremiah 22:18
- with silence
- Heb. be silent.
- Leviticus 10:3; Psalm 39:9