(A)How shall we sing the Lord's song
    in a foreign land?

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How can we sing the songs of the Lord(A)
    while in a foreign land?

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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

“In that day,” declares the Sovereign Lord, “the songs in the temple will turn to wailing.[a](A) Many, many bodies—flung everywhere! Silence!(B)

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  1. Amos 8:3 Or “the temple singers will wail

(A)They shall not pour drink offerings of wine to the Lord,
    (B)and their sacrifices shall not please him.
It shall be like (C)mourners' bread to them;
    all who eat of it shall be defiled;
for their bread shall be for their hunger only;
    (D)it shall not come to the house of the Lord.

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They will not pour out wine offerings(A) to the Lord,
    nor will their sacrifices please(B) him.
Such sacrifices will be to them like the bread of mourners;(C)
    all who eat them will be unclean.(D)
This food will be for themselves;
    it will not come into the temple of the Lord.(E)

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14 (A)The old men have left the city gate,
    the young men (B)their music.
15 (C)The joy of our hearts has ceased;
    (D)our dancing has been turned to mourning.

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14 The elders are gone from the city gate;
    the young men have stopped their music.(A)
15 Joy is gone from our hearts;
    our dancing has turned to mourning.(B)

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21 Then you will say in your heart:
    ‘Who has borne me these?
(A)I was bereaved and barren,
    exiled and put away,
    but who has brought up these?
Behold, I was left alone;
    from where have these come?’”

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21 Then you will say in your heart,
    ‘Who bore me these?(A)
I was bereaved(B) and barren;
    I was exiled and rejected.(C)
    Who brought these(D) up?
I was left(E) all alone,(F)
    but these—where have they come from?’”

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12 In that day (A)the Lord God of hosts
    called for weeping and mourning,
    for (B)baldness and (C)wearing sackcloth;

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12 The Lord, the Lord Almighty,
    called you on that day(A)
to weep(B) and to wail,
    to tear out your hair(C) and put on sackcloth.(D)

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a time to (A)weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to (B)dance;

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    a time to weep and a time to laugh,
    a time to mourn and a time to dance,

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