Amos 8:3 KJV — MannaFest

Amos 8:3

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.

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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.

WEB

“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!”

YLT

And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many are the carcases, into any place throw--hush!

DBT

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!

About this book

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Amos — A herdsman of Tekoa sent north to Bethel — a shepherd-prophet preaching judgment on a prosperous, comfortable, oppressive society. ‘Let justice roll down.’

Author: Amos, a herdman of Tekoa in Judah, sent to Israel at Bethel (1:1, 7:14)
Date: c. 760–750 BC, during the reigns of Uzziah in Judah and Jeroboam II in Israel

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Amos 6:9–10
And it shall come to pass, if there remain ten men in one house, that they shall die.
Amos 5:23
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
Psalms 137:4
How shall we sing the Lord’s song in a strange land?
Amos 6:10
And a man’s uncle shall take him up, and he that burneth him, to bring out the bones out of the house, and shall say unto him that is by the sides of the house, Is there yet any with thee? and he shall say, No. Then shall he say, Hold thy tongue: for we may not make mention of the name of the Lord.
Jeremiah 9:21–22
For death is come up into our windows, and is entered into our palaces, to cut off the children from without, and the young men from the streets.

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Property was first invaded and then liberty; it is the method of oppressors first to make men beggars and then to make them their vassals. Thus is the dignity of the human nature lost in the misery of those that are trampled on and the tenderness of it in the sin of those that trample on them. The grievousness of the punishment that shall be inflicted on them for this sin.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

) and that shall change their note. Oppressors are here called to an account for their abusing the poor; and their destruction is foretold, which will set them a mourning,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

It is a gracious promise ( Isa. xxx. 20 ) that though they have a scarcity of bread they shall have plenty of the means of grace. God will give them the bread of adversity and the water of affliction, but their eyes shall see their teachers; and it was a common saying among the Puritans that brown bread and the gospel are good fare.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

songs of . . . temple-- (Am 5:23). The joyous hymns in the temple of Judah (or rather, in the Beth-el "royal temple," Am 7:13; for the allusion is to Israel, not Judah, throughout this chapter) shall be changed into "howlings." GROTIUS translates, "palace"; compare Am 6:5, as to the songs there.

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

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