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Amos 8:3

Judgment

1 This is what the Lord GOD showed me: I saw a basket of summer fruit.

2 “Amos, what do you see?” He asked. “A basket of summer fruit,” I replied. So the LORD said to me, “The end has come for My people Israel; I will no longer spare them.”

“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!”

4 Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,

5 asking, “When will the New Moon be over, that we may sell grain? When will the Sabbath end, that we may market wheat? Let us reduce the ephah and increase the shekel; let us cheat with dishonest scales.

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This was said to Israel at a particular time, so it is wise to read it together with the surrounding text. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.

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BSB
“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!”
KJV
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.
WEB
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.
ASV
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.
DARBY
And the songs of the palace shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord Jehovah. The dead bodies shall be many; in every place they shall be cast forth. Silence!
BLB
“And they will wail the songs of the temple on that day,” a declaration of the Lord YHWH. “Many a corpse in every place is strewn! Silence!”
ÅB
Palassets sanger skal bli til klageskrik på den dag, sier Herren, Israels Gud; der ligger lik i mengde, overalt kastes de til side i stillhet.
OTB
«På den dagen,» erklærer Herren Gud, «vil sangene i tempelet bli til klagesang. Mange kropper vil bli kastet overalt! Stillhet!»
B1930
Palassets sanger skal bli til klageskrik på den dag, sier Herren, Israels Gud; der ligger lik i mengde, overalt kastes de til side i stillhet.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Amos 5:23

    Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

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  • Amos 6:9–10

    And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.

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  • Jeremiah 9:21–22

    For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares.

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  • Amos 5:16

    Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

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  • Leviticus 10:3

    Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.

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  • Amos 8:10

    I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

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  • Isaiah 37:36

    Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

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  • Zechariah 11:1–3

    Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!

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