(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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(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

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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