Amos 6:5

New American Bible - revised edition

Who improvise to the music of the harp, composing on musical instruments like David,

Cross References

Genesis 31:27

Why did you dupe me by stealing away secretly? You did not tell me! I would have sent you off with joyful singing to the sound of tambourines and harps.

1 Chronicles 15:16

David commanded the commanders of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers and to play on musical instruments, harps, lyres, and cymbals, to make a loud sound of rejoicing.

1 Chronicles 23:5

four thousand were to be gatekeepers, and four thousand were to praise the Lord with the instruments which [David] had devised for praise.

2 Chronicles 29:26

The Levites were stationed with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I amassed for myself silver and gold, and the treasures of kings and provinces. I provided for myself male and female singers and delights of men, many women.

Isaiah 5:12

Banqueting on wine with harp and lyre, timbrel and flute, But the deed of the Lord they do not regard, the work of his hands they do not see!

Ezekiel 26:13

I will bring an end to the noise of your songs; the music of your lyres will be heard no more.

Amos 5:23

Take away from me your noisy songs; The melodies of your harps, I will not listen to them.

Amos 8:3

The temple singers will wail on that day— oracle of the Lord God. Many shall be the corpses, strewn everywhere—Silence!

1 Peter 4:3

For the time that has passed is sufficient for doing what the Gentiles like to do: living in debauchery, evil desires, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and wanton idolatry.

Revelation 18:22

No melodies of harpists and musicians, flutists and trumpeters, will ever be heard in you again. No craftsmen in any trade will ever be found in you again. No sound of the millstone will ever be heard in you again.