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Amos 8:3

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3“1The asongs of the palace will turn to bwailing in that day,” declares the Lord God. “Many will be the ccorpses; in every place 2they will cast them forth 3in silence.”

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Footnotes

  1. 1Or They will howl the palace songs
  2. 2Lit he has thrown
  3. 3Or hush!

Cross references

  1. aAmos 5:23; 6:4, 5; 8:10
  2. bAmos 5:16
  3. cAmos 6:8–10

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,”

declares the Lord God.

“So many dead bodies!”

“They are thrown everywhere!”

“Silence!”

NIVNew International Version (2011)

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!”

CSBChristian Standard Bible

In that day the temple songs will become wailing”—this is the Lord God’s declaration. “Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence!”

NLTNew Living Translation

In that day the singing in the temple will turn to wailing. Dead bodies will be scattered everywhere. They will be carried out of the city in silence. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

“And the songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day,” declares my Lord Yahweh. “The corpses are numerous; he throws them in every place. Be quiet!”

KJV 1900King James Version

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.