Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
The songs of the temple - Instead of shiroth , songs, Houbigant reads shoroth , the singing women; and Newcome follows him: "And the singing women of the palace shall howl in that day." Instead of joyous songs, they shall have nothing but lamentation.
They shall cast them forth with silence - Every place shall be filled with the dead, and a dreadful silence shall reign universally; the few that remain being afraid either to speak or complain, or even to chant a funeral dirge for the most respectable of the dead.
Other Adam Clarke entries containing Amos 8:3:
Amos 6:10
Amos 8:10
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