Amos 6:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David improvise on instruments of music,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ that chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ 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)

⁵ that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

Common English Bible

⁵ who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp, and, like David, compose tunes on musical instruments;

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ You sing to the sound of stringed instruments; they consider themselves to have the musical abilities of David.

Amos 6:5 Cross References

Isaiah 5:12

whose feasts consist of lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine, but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord or see the work of his hands!

Amos 5:23

Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps.

Amos 8:3

The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day,” says the Lord God; “the dead bodies shall be many, cast out in every place. Be silent!”

Revelation 18:22

and the sound of harpists and entertainers and of flutists and trumpeters will be heard in you no more, and an artisan of any trade will be found in you no more, and the sound of the millstone will be heard in you no more,

1 Peter 4:3

You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and delights of the flesh, many concubines.

1 Chronicles 23:5

four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.”

1 Chronicles 15:16

David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their kindred as singers to raise loud sounds of joy on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals.

Genesis 31:27

Why did you flee secretly and deceive me and not tell me? I would have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre.

Ezekiel 26:13

I will silence the music of your songs; the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

2 Chronicles 29:26

The Levites stood with the instruments of David and the priests with the trumpets.