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Amos 8:3

“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

Amos 8:3 BSB
  1. a Or the singing women
  2. b Or palace

Amos 8:3 has 16 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 3 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Amos 5:23 (6 votes) and Amos 6:9–10 (6 votes). 14 other verses point back to it. It links with 12 other books, from Leviticus 10 to Zechariah 11.

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Which verses does Amos 8:3 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Amos 5:236 votes

    Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

  2. Amos 6:9–106 votes

    And if there are ten men left in one house, they too will die. And when the relative who is to burn the bodies picks them up to remove them from the house, he will call to one inside, “Is anyone else with you?” “None,” that person will answer. “Silence,” the relative will retort, “for the name of the LORD must not be invoked.”

  3. Jeremiah 9:21–224 votes

    For death has climbed in through our windows; it has entered our fortresses to cut off the children from the streets, the young men from the town squares. Declare that this is what the LORD says: “The corpses of men will fall like dung upon the open field, like newly cut grain behind the reaper, with no one to gather it.”

  4. Leviticus 10:33 votes

    Then Moses said to Aaron, “This is what the LORD meant when He said: ‘To those who come near Me I will show My holiness, and in the sight of all the people I will reveal My glory.’” But Aaron remained silent.

  5. Amos 5:163 votes

    Therefore this is what the LORD, the God of Hosts, the Lord, says: “There will be wailing in all the public squares and cries of ‘Alas! Alas!’ in all the streets. The farmer will be summoned to mourn, and the mourners to wail.

  6. Psalm 39:92 votes

    I have become mute; I do not open my mouth because of what You have done.

  7. Isaiah 37:362 votes

    Then the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies!

  8. Jeremiah 22:182 votes

    Therefore this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim son of Josiah king of Judah: “They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my brother! Alas, my sister!’ They will not mourn for him: ‘Alas, my master! Alas, his splendor!’

  9. Hosea 10:5–62 votes

    The people of Samaria will fear for the calf of Beth-aven. Indeed, its people will mourn over it with its idolatrous priests—those who rejoiced in its glory—for it has been taken from them into exile. Yes, it will be carried to Assyria as tribute to the great king. Ephraim will be seized with shame; Israel will be ashamed of its wooden idols.

  10. Joel 1:52 votes

    Wake up, you drunkards, and weep; wail, all you drinkers of wine, because of the sweet wine, for it has been cut off from your mouth.

  11. Joel 1:112 votes
  12. Joel 1:132 votes
  13. Amos 4:102 votes
  14. Amos 8:102 votes

    I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

  15. Nahum 3:32 votes
  16. Zechariah 11:1–32 votes

Which verses point to Amos 8:3?

The 10 strongest of 14.