“Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and not inform me, and I would have sent you away with joy and songs, with tambourine and lyre?
Amos 6:5 - The Scriptures 2009 who are singing to the sound of the harp, having composed songs for themselves like Dawiḏ, Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 that chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David; Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and invent for themselves instruments of music like David's, [I Chron. 23:5.] American Standard Version (1901) that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; Common English Bible who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp, and, like David, compose tunes on musical instruments; Catholic Public Domain Version You sing to the sound of stringed instruments; they consider themselves to have the musical abilities of David. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David; |
“Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and not inform me, and I would have sent you away with joy and songs, with tambourine and lyre?
And Dawiḏ spoke to the leaders of the Lĕwites to appoint their brothers the singers with instruments of song, harps, and lyres, and cymbals, to lift up the voice with joy.
and four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand to give praise to יהוה, “which I made for giving praise.”
And the Lĕwites stood with the instruments of Dawiḏ, and the priests with the trumpets.
I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasures of sovereigns and of the provinces. I provided male and female singers for myself, and the pleasures of men – a woman and women.
And the lyre and the harp, the tambourine and flute, and wine are in their feasts; but they do not regard the deeds of יהוה, nor see the work of His hands.
And I shall cause the sound of your songs to cease, and let the sound of your lyres be heard no more.
“Take away from Me the noise of your songs, for I do not hear the sound of your stringed instruments.
“And the songs of the Hĕḵal shall be wailing in that day,” declares the Master יהוה, “many dead bodies everywhere, thrown into any place – hush!”
For we have spent enough of our past lifetime in doing the desire of the nations, having walked in indecencies, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, wild parties, and abominable idolatries,
“And the sound of harpists, and musicians, and flautists, and trumpeters shall not be heard in you any more at all. And no craftsman of any trade shall be found in you any more at all. And the sound of a millstone shall not be heard in you any more at all.