Amos 8:3

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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 songs

Zechariah 11:1

Many

They shall

Amos 6:9

Jeremiah 22:18

With silence

Leviticus 10:3

Psalm 39:9

General references

Isaiah 24:9

Bible References

The songs

And have turned your festivals to mourning, And all your songs to lamentation, And caused sackcloth to come up on all loins, And on every head -- baldness, And made it as a mourning of an only one, And its latter end as a day of bitterness.

Turn aside from Me the noise of thy songs, Yea, the praise of thy psaltery I hear not.

For the calves of Beth-Aven fear do inhabitants of Samaria, Surely mourned on account of it hath its people, And its priests on account of it leap about, Because of its honour, for it hath removed from it,

Awake, ye drunkards, and weep, And howl all drinking wine, because of the juice, For it hath been cut off from your mouth.

Open, O Lebanon, thy doors, And fire doth devour among thy cedars.

Many

I have sent among you pestilence by the way of Egypt, I have slain by sword your choice ones, With your captive horses, And I cause the stink of your camps to come up -- even into your nostrils, And ye have not turned back unto Me, An affirmation of Jehovah.

And a messenger of Jehovah goeth out, and smiteth in the camp of Asshur a hundred and eighty and five thousand; and men rise early in the morning, and lo, all of them are dead corpses.

For death hath come up into our windows, It hath come into our palaces, To cut off the suckling from without, Young men from the broad places.

And the flame of a sword, and the lightning of a spear, And the abundance of the wounded, And the weight of carcases, Yea, there is no end to the bodies, They stumble over their bodies.

They shall

And if there are left ten persons in one house, It hath come to pass -- that they have died.

Therefore, thus said Jehovah concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: They do not lament for him, Ah, my brother, and Ah, sister, They do not lament for him, Ah, lord, and Ah, his honour.

With silence

And Moses saith unto Aaron, 'It is that which Jehovah hath spoken, saying, By those drawing near to Me I am sanctified, and in the face of all the people I am honoured;' and Aaron is silent.

I have been dumb, I open not my mouth, Because Thou -- Thou hast done it.

General references

With a song they drink not wine, Bitter is strong drink to those drinking it.