Why did you flee away secretly, and steal away from me; and did not tell me, that I might have sent you away with gladness, and with songs, with tabret, and with harp?
And David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their kindred to be the singers with instruments of music, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
I gathered also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I got for myself men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.
And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, says the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall throw them out in silence.
For the time of our life that is past is sufficient for us to have done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in corrupt passions, lusts, excess of wine, reveling, banqueting, and abominable idolatries:
And the sound of harps, and musicians, and of flutes, and trumpeters, shall be heard no more at all in you; and no craftsman, of whatever craft he be, shall be found any more in you; and the sound of a millstone shall be heard no more at all in you;