(A)who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
    and like David (B)invent for themselves instruments of music,

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That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

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(A)The songs of the temple[a] (B)shall become wailings[b] in that day,”
declares the Lord God.
(C)“So many dead bodies!”
“They are thrown everywhere!”
(D)“Silence!”

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Footnotes

  1. Amos 8:3 Or palace
  2. Amos 8:3 Or The singing women of the palace shall wail

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.

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12 (A)They have lyre and harp,
    tambourine and flute and wine at their feasts,
(B)but they do not regard the deeds of the Lord,
    or see the work of his hands.

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12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

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