Amos 8:3

And the shirot of the heikhal shall turn to wailings in that Yom, saith Adonoi Hashem; 1 there shall be many dead bodies in every place; 1 they shall cast them forth. 1 Silence! 1

Orthodox Jewish Bible

In The 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.

In Context

2And Hashem said: Amos, what seest thou? And I said: A basket of kayitz (summer fruit). Then said Hashem unto me: 1 The ketz (end) is come upon My people Yisroel; 1 I will not again pass by them [and spare them] anymore. 1

4Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, 1 even to make the anivvei aretz (poor of the land) to fail, 1

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Cross References

Leviticus 10:3Then Moshe said unto Aharon, This is it that Hashem spoke, saying, I will show Myself kadosh among them that come near Me, and before kol HaAm (all the People) I will be honored. And Aharon was silent.

Isaiah 37:36Then the Malach Hashem went forth, and struck down in the Machaneh Ashur a hundred and fourscore and five elef; and when they arose early in the boker, hinei, they were all pegarim mesim (dead corpses).

Jeremiah 22:18Therefore thus saith Hashem concerning Y'hoyakim Ben Yoshiyah Melech Yehudah: 1 They shall not mourn for him, saying: 1 Ah achi! Or, Ah achot (sister)! 1 They shall not lament for him, saying: 1 Ah adon! Or: Ah his hod (glory)! 1

Joel 1:5Awake, ye shikkorim (drunkards), and weep; 1 and wail, all ye drinkers of yayin, 1 because of the new wine, for it is cut off 1 from your mouth. 1

Joel 1:13Gird yourselves, and lament, ye kohanim; 1 howl, ye mesharetim of the Mizbe'ach; 1 come, lie all night in sackcloth, ye mesharetim of my G-d; 1 for the minchah and the nesekh 1 is withheld from the Beis of your G-d. + 1:13 i.e., the Beis Hamikdash 1

Amos 5:16Therefore Hashem Adonoi Elohei Tzva'os saith thus: 1 Wailing shall be in all rechovot; 1 and they shall cry in all the public squares, 1 Alas! Alas! And they shall call the ikkar (farmer) to mourning, 1 and such as are skillful of lamentation to wailing. 1

Matthew Henry on Amos 8:2-4

The Vision of Summer Fruit. ( b. c. 785.) 1 Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit. 2 And he said, Amos, what seest thou? And I said, A basket of summer fruit. Then said the Lord unto me, The end is come upon my people of Israel; I will not again pass by them any more. 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. The great reason why sinners defer their… Read the whole commentary →

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