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Amos 8:3

“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!”

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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.

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.

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14 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְהֵילִ֜ילוּve.hei.Li.luand they will wailH3213 →
שִׁיר֤וֹתshi.Rotsongs ofH7892 →
הֵיכָל֙hei.Khal[the] templeH1964 →
בַּיּ֣וֹםbai.Yomon the dayH3117 →
הַה֔וּאha.Hu'<the> thatH1931 →
נְאֻ֖םne.'Um[the] utterance ofH5002 →
אֲדֹנָ֣י'a.do.Nai[the] LordH136 →
יְהוִ֑הYah.wehYahwehH3069 →
רַ֣בravmanyH7227 →
הַפֶּ֔גֶרha.Pe.gerthe corpse[s]H6297 →
בְּכָל־be.kholin everyH3605 →
מָק֖וֹםma.KomplaceH4725 →
הִשְׁלִ֥יךְhish.Likhsomeone will throwH7993 →
הָֽס׃ פHashush!H2013 →

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Amos 6:9–10And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die.Amos 5:23Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.Psalms 137:4How can we sing a song of the LORD in a foreign land?Amos 6:10And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”Jeremiah 9:21–22For 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.Amos 6:5You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.Zephaniah 1:10On that day,” declares the LORD, “a cry will go up from the Fish Gate, a wail from the Second District, and a loud crashing from the hills.Leviticus 10:3Then 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.Amos 5:16Therefore 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.Lamentations 2:10The elders of the Daughter of Zion sit on the ground in silence. They have thrown dust on their heads and put on sackcloth. The young women of Jerusalem have bowed their heads to the ground.Ecclesiastes 3:7a time to tear and a time to mend, a time to be silent and a time to speak,Joel 1:5Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.Joel 1:11Be dismayed, O farmers, wail, O vinedressers, over the wheat and barley, because the harvest of the field has perished.Hosea 10:5–6The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn with its idolatrous priests— those who rejoiced in its glory— for it has been taken from them into exile.Zechariah 11:1–3Open your doors, O Lebanon, that the fire may consume your cedars!Isaiah 37:36Then 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!Joel 1:13Put on sackcloth and lament, O priests; wail, O ministers of the altar. Come, spend the night in sackcloth, O ministers of my God, because the grain and drink offerings are withheld from the house of your God.Psalms 39:9I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

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