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Amos 8:3

American Standard Version

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.

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Amos 8:3 in other translations

The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord Yahweh.
“The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

Amos 8:3 · World English Bible

Amos 8:3 in context

  1. 1Thus the Lord Jehovah showed me: and, behold, a basket of summer fruit.
  2. 2And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said Jehovah unto me, The end is come upon my people Israel; I will not again pass by them any more.
  3. 3And 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.
  4. 4Hear this, O ye that would swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
  5. 5saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;