Amos 8:3

Overview - Amos 8
By a basket of summer fruit is shown the approach of Israel's end.
Oppression is reproved.
11 A famine of the word of God threatened.
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Amos 8:3  (King 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.
 


the songs
10 ; 5:23 Hosea 10:5 Hosea 10:6 ; Joel 1:5 Joel 1:11 Joel 1:13 ; Zechariah 11:1-3

shall be howlings
Hebrew shall howl. many.
4:10 Isaiah 37:36 ; Jeremiah 9:21 Jeremiah 9:22 ; Nahum 3:3

they shall
Amos 6:9 Amos 6:10 Jeremiah 22:18

with silence
Hebrew be silent.
Leviticus 10:3 ; Psalms 39:9