3"In that day," declares the Sovereign Lord , "the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. Many, many bodies-flung everywhere! Silence!"


In Context

1 This is what the Sovereign Lord showed me: a basket of ripe fruit.

2 "What do you see, Amos?" he asked. "A basket of ripe fruit," I answered. Then the Lord said to me, "The time is ripe for my people Israel; I will spare them no longer.

3 "In that day," declares the Sovereign Lord , "the songs in the temple will turn to wailing. Many, many bodies-flung everywhere! Silence!"

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

5 saying, "When will the New Moon be over that we may sell grain, and the Sabbath be ended that we may market wheat?"- skimping the measure, boosting the price and cheating with dishonest scales,

Amos 8:3 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:3And 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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

8:3And the hinges of the temple shall screak in that day, saith the Lord God: many shall die: silence shall be cast in every place.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

8:3And 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:3And 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!

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

8:3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: the dead bodies shall be many; in every place shall they cast them forth with silence.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:3And 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 World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

8:3The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day,| says the Lord Yahweh. |The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

8:3And howled have songstresses of a palace in that day, An affirmation of the Lord Jehovah, Many are the carcases, into any place throw — hush!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

8:3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, said the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.