Amos 6:5
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.”
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“You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;”
King James Version · Public Domain“that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Amos 6:5 — 11 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Genesis 31:27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
- 1 Chronicles 15:16David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.
- 1 Chronicles 23:54,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:26The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.
- Job 21:11They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about,
- Ecclesiastes 2:8and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered to myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men—many concubines.
- Isaiah 5:12At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
- Amos 5:23Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
- Amos 8:3“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
- 1 Peter 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
- Revelation 18:22And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.
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