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55 Bible Verses about Musical Instruments
I'll praise you with the harp, my God; I'll sing your truth with the lyre, O Holy One of Israel. Humans have always expressed their emotions through song and instrumental music. And through scripture, we can see that God enjoys music too.
Psalm 50:231 says, "Whoever offers praise glorifies me; and to one who orders his way rightly, I will show the salvation of God." It's through God that we receive inspiration, talent, and the intelligence to learn a craft. We aren't born with these gifts; Jesus places a unique gift within each of us to develop here on Earth.
Knowing how good God has been to you, what better way to offer back to Him all that you know? Praise and worship isn't just about singing a song. It's an expression of responding to God's love. You can do it with your whole being. Some people dance, jump, shout, and prostrate themselves. And there are those who bring harmony to it all.
That's why it's so important to dedicate your life to God so that every time you play an instrument, that sound is pleasing in the presence of the Eternal Father. Guard your heart. Let your true motivation be to exalt the Almighty and not to be seen by others. Give glory to God in everything you do.
Be a vessel of honor in His hands, one that He delights in hearing. And remember, above all, that all the knowledge and abilities you have are because of Jesus. So stay true to yourself, genuine, and ready to do good works.
Let them praise his name with dancing! Let them sing praises to him to the accompaniment of the tambourine and harp!
O God, I will sing a new song to you! Accompanied by a ten-stringed instrument, I will sing praises to you,
Praise him with the tambourine and with dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and the flute!
Sound the ram’s horn on the day of the new moon, and on the day of the full moon when our festival begins.
Shout out praises to the Lord, all the earth! Break out in a joyful shout and sing!Sing to the Lord accompanied by a harp, accompanied by a harp and the sound of music!With trumpets and the blaring of the ram’s horn, shout out praises before the king, the Lord!
They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute.
When he reached Seirah, he blew a trumpet in the Ephraimite hill country. The Israelites went down with him from the hill country, with Ehud in the lead.
I will express my thanks to you with a stringed instrument, praising your faithfulness, O my God! I will sing praises to you accompanied by a harp, O Holy One of Israel!
The happy sound of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases.
Give thanks to the Lord with the harp! Sing to him to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument!
Praise him with the blast of the horn! Praise him with the lyre and the harp!Praise him with the tambourine and with dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and the flute!Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with clanging cymbals!
All the people were seeing the thundering and the lightning, and heard the sound of the horn, and saw the mountain smoking – and when the people saw it they trembled with fear and kept their distance.
while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.
With trumpets and the blaring of the ram’s horn, shout out praises before the king, the Lord!
With the timber the king made supports for the Lord’s temple and for the royal palace and stringed instruments for the musicians. No one has seen so much of this fine timber to this very day.)
All Israel brought up the ark of the Lord’s covenant; they were shouting, blowing trumpets, sounding cymbals, and playing stringed instruments.
while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before the Lord, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, rattles, and cymbals.
On the third day in the morning there was thunder and lightning and a dense cloud on the mountain, and the sound of a very loud horn; all the people who were in the camp trembled.
They swore their allegiance to the Lord, shouting their approval loudly and sounding trumpets and horns.
Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!
Then I will go to the altar of God, to the God who gives me ecstatic joy, so that I express my thanks to you, O God, my God, with a harp.
They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the Lord is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought out the Levites from all the places they lived to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication joyfully with songs of thanksgiving and songs accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.
They see your processions, O God – the processions of my God, my king, who marches along in holy splendor.Singers walk in front; musicians follow playing their stringed instruments, in the midst of young women playing tambourines.
Asaph was the leader and Zechariah second in command, followed by Jeiel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom, and Jeiel. They were to play stringed instruments; Asaph was to sound the cymbals;and the priests Benaiah and Jahaziel were to blow trumpets regularly before the ark of God’s covenant.
David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as musicians; they were to play various instruments, including stringed instruments and cymbals, and to sing loudly and joyfully.
You must sound loud horn blasts – in the seventh month, on the tenth day of the month, on the Day of Atonement – you must sound the horn in your entire land.
Give thanks to the Lord with the harp! Sing to him to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument!We wait for the Lord; he is our deliverer and shield.For our hearts rejoice in him, for we trust in his holy name.May we experience your faithfulness, O Lord, for we wait for you.Sing to him a new song! Play skillfully as you shout out your praises to him!
Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me so I could send you off with a celebration complete with singing, tambourines, and harps?
It is fitting to thank the Lord, and to sing praises to your name, O sovereign One!You exalt my horn like that of a wild ox. I am covered with fresh oil.I gloat in triumph over those who tried to ambush me; I hear the defeated cries of the evil foes who attacked me.The godly grow like a palm tree; they grow high like a cedar in Lebanon.Planted in the Lord’s house, they grow in the courts of our God.They bear fruit even when they are old; they are filled with vitality and have many leaves.So they proclaim that the Lord, my protector, is just and never unfair.It is fitting to proclaim your loyal love in the morning, and your faithfulness during the night,to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument and a lyre, to the accompaniment of the meditative tone of the harp.
The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the Lord, singing: “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the Lord’s temple.The priests could not carry out their duties because of the cloud; the Lord’s splendor filled God’s temple.
I am determined, O God! I will sing and praise you with my whole heart.Who will lead me into the fortified city? Who will bring me to Edom?Have you not rejected us, O God? O God, you do not go into battle with our armies.Give us help against the enemy, for any help men might offer is futile.By God’s power we will conquer; he will trample down our enemies.Awake, O stringed instrument and harp! I will wake up at dawn!
Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a hand-drum in her hand, and all the women went out after her with hand-drums and with dances.Miriam sang in response to them, “Sing to the Lord, for he has triumphed gloriously; the horse and its rider he has thrown into the sea.”
Heman and Jeduthun were in charge of the music, including the trumpets, cymbals, and the other musical instruments used in praising God. The sons of Jeduthun guarded the entrance.
Afterward you will go to Gibeah of God, where there are Philistine officials. When you enter the town, you will meet a company of prophets coming down from the high place. They will have harps, tambourines, flutes, and lyres, and they will be prophesying.
All the Levites who were musicians, including Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives, wore linen. They played cymbals and stringed instruments as they stood east of the altar. They were accompanied by 120 priests who blew trumpets.The trumpeters and musicians played together, praising and giving thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and other instruments, they loudly praised the Lord, singing: “Certainly he is good; certainly his loyal love endures!” Then a cloud filled the Lord’s temple.
All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake.
Singers walk in front; musicians follow playing their stringed instruments, in the midst of young women playing tambourines.
Praise the Lord! Praise God in his sanctuary! Praise him in the sky, which testifies to his strength!Praise him for his mighty acts! Praise him for his surpassing greatness!
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought out the Levites from all the places they lived to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication joyfully with songs of thanksgiving and songs accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.The singers were also assembled from the district around Jerusalem and from the settlements of the Netophathites
The Lord is about to deliver me, and we will celebrate with music for the rest of our lives in the Lord’s temple.”
Then the Lord will appear above them, and his arrow will shoot forth like lightning; the Lord God will blow the trumpet and will sally forth on the southern storm winds.
and when he had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders threw themselves to the ground before the Lamb. Each of them had a harp and golden bowls full of incense (which are the prayers of the saints).They were singing a new song: “You are worthy to take the scroll and to open its seals because you were killed, and at the cost of your own blood you have purchased for God persons from every tribe, language, people, and nation.
4,000 are to be gatekeepers; and 4,000 are to praise the Lord with the instruments I supplied for worship.”
He gave me reason to sing a new song, praising our God. May many see what God has done, so that they might swear allegiance to him and trust in the Lord!
All of these were under the supervision of their fathers; they were musicians in the Lord’s temple, playing cymbals and stringed instruments as they served in God’s temple. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the supervision of the king.They and their relatives, all of them skilled and trained to make music to the Lord, numbered two hundred eighty-eight.
For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:I have observed the burden that God has given to people to keep them occupied.God has made everything fit beautifully in its appropriate time, but he has also placed ignorance in the human heart so that people cannot discover what God has ordained, from the beginning to the end of their lives.I have concluded that there is nothing better for people than to be happy and to enjoy themselves as long as they live,and also that everyone should eat and drink, and find enjoyment in all his toil, for these things are a gift from God.I also know that whatever God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it. God has made it this way, so that men will fear him.Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past.I saw something else on earth: In the place of justice, there was wickedness, and in the place of fairness, there was wickedness.I thought to myself, “God will judge both the righteous and the wicked; for there is an appropriate time for every activity, and there is a time of judgment for every deed.I also thought to myself, “It is for the sake of people, so God can clearly show them that they are like animals.For the fate of humans and the fate of animals are the same: As one dies, so dies the other; both have the same breath. There is no advantage for humans over animals, for both are fleeting.A time to be born, and a time to die; a time to plant, and a time to uproot what was planted;Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?So I perceived there is nothing better than for people to enjoy their work, because that is their reward; for who can show them what the future holds?A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to break down, and a time to build up;A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to mourn, and a time to dance.