3:4 A time to weep, and a time to laugh;
a time to mourn, and a time to dance.
22:12 At that time the sovereign master, the Lord who commands armies, called for weeping and mourning,
for shaved heads and sackcloth. 1
5:14 The elders are gone from the city gate;
the young men have stopped playing their music.
5:15 Our hearts no longer have any joy; 2
our dancing is turned to mourning.
9:4 They will not pour out drink offerings of wine to the Lord;
they will not please him with their sacrifices.
Their sacrifices will be like bread eaten while in mourning;
all those who eat them will make themselves ritually unclean.
For their bread will be only to satisfy their appetite;
it will not come into the temple of the Lord.
8:3 The women singing in the temple 3 will wail in that day.”
The sovereign Lord is speaking.
“There will be many corpses littered everywhere! 4 Be quiet!”
1 tn Heb “for baldness and the wearing of sackcloth.” See the note at 15:2.
2 tn Heb “the joy of our heart has ceased.”
3 tn Or “palace” (NASB, NCV, TEV).
4 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.”