The women singing in the temple ¹  will wail in that day.” The sovereign Lord is speaking. “There will be many corpses littered everywhere! ²  Be quiet!”

biblegateway Amo 8:3

"The songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day," declares the Lord GOD. "Many will be the corpses; in every place they will cast them forth in silence."

In that day the temple songs will become wailing"--the Lord GOD's declaration. "Many dead bodies, thrown everywhere! Silence!"

On that day the songs of the temple will become loud cries," declares the Almighty LORD. "There will be dead bodies scattered everywhere. Hush!"

biblegateway Amo 8:3

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

The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," declares the Lord GOD. "So many dead bodies!" "They are thrown everywhere!" "Silence!"

bibleoremus Amo 8:3

The songs of the temple shall become wailings in that day," says the Lord GOD; "the dead bodies shall be many, cast out in every place. Be silent!"

On that day, says the Lord GOD, the palace songs will give way to lamentation: ‘So many corpses, flung out everywhere! Silence!’”

biblegateway Amo 8:3

And the songs of the temple Shall be wailing in that day," Says the Lord GOD––"Many dead bodies everywhere, They shall be thrown out in silence."

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.

biblegateway Amo 8:3

The women singing in the temple ¹  will wail in that day.” The sovereign Lord is speaking. “There will be many corpses littered everywhere! ²  Be quiet!”

¹ tn Or “palace” (NASB, NCV, TEV).

² tn Heb “Many corpses in every place he will throw out.” The subject of the verb is probably impersonal, though many emend the active (Hiphil) form to a passive (Hophal): “Many corpses in every place will be thrown out.”