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Amos 6:5

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

You play your harps, and like David, you practice on your musical instruments.

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At your parties with your wine, harps, drums, flutes, and other musical instruments, you don’t see what the Lord has done. You don’t notice what his hands have made.

Take your noisy songs away from here. I will not listen to the music from your harps.

Their temple songs will become funeral songs.” This is what the Lord GOD said. “There will be dead bodies everywhere. In silence, people will take out the dead bodies and throw them onto the pile.”

O Babylon, the music of people playing harps and other instruments, flutes and trumpets will never be heard in you again. No worker doing any job will ever be found in you again. The sound of a millstone will never be heard in you again.

In the past you wasted too much time doing what those who don’t know God like to do. You were living immoral lives, doing the evil things you wanted to do. You were always getting drunk, having wild drinking parties, and doing shameful things in your worship of idols.

I also gathered silver and gold for myself. I took treasures from kings and their nations. I had men and women singing for me. I had everything any man could want.

4000 will be gatekeepers, and 4000 will be musicians. I made special musical instruments for them. They will use them to praise the Lord.”

David told the Levite leaders to get their brothers, the singers. The singers were to take their lyres, harps, and cymbals and sing happy songs.

Why did you run away without telling me? If you had told me, I would have given you a party. There would have been singing and dancing with music.

So I will stop the sound of your happy songs. People will not hear your harps anymore.

So the Levites stood ready with David’s instruments of music, and the priests stood ready with their trumpets.




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