OLD TESTAMENT

Amos 8:3

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The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord GOD. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

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Verse 3. Temple, when God comes like a mighty warrior; or when the profane temples shall be pillaged. Calmet. 9:1. Hebrew also, “the canticles of the temple or palace shall be changed into lamentations.”—Place. Hebrew “a multitude of dead bodies shall be cast in every place. Keep silence.” Calmet.

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