A moment in scripture
Amos 8:3
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 surrounding passage
- Amos 8:1
Thus hath the Lord God shewed unto me: and behold a basket of summer fruit.
- Amos 8:2
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.
- Amos 8:4
Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
- Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell corn? and the sabbath, that we may set forth wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel great, and falsifying the balances by deceit?
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.