8:3 The women singing in the temple 1 will wail in that day.”
The sovereign Lord is speaking.
“There will be many corpses littered everywhere! 2 Be quiet!”
8:9 In that day,” says the sovereign Lord, “I will make the sun set at noon,
and make the earth dark in the middle of the day. 3
1 tn Or “palace” (NASB, NCV, TEV).
2 tn Heb “Many corpses in every place he will throw out.” The subject of the verb is probably impersonal, though many emend the active (Hiphil) form to a passive (Hophal): “Many corpses in every place will be thrown out.”
3 tn Heb “in a day of light.”