Amos 6:5

New Century Version

You make up songs on your harps, and, like David, you compose songs on musical instruments.

Cross References

Genesis 31:27

Why did you run away secretly and trick me? Why didn’t you tell me? Then I could have sent you away with joy and singing and with the music of tambourines and harps.

1 Chronicles 15:16

David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers to play their lyres, harps, and cymbals and to sing happy songs.

1 Chronicles 23:5

four thousand Levites will be gatekeepers, and four thousand Levites will praise the Lord with musical instruments I made for giving praise.”

2 Chronicles 29:26

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

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered silver and gold for myself, treasures from kings and other areas. I had male and female singers and all the women a man could ever want.

Isaiah 5:12

At their parties they have lyres, harps, tambourines, flutes, and wine. They don’t see what the Lord has done or notice the work of his hands.

Ezekiel 26:13

So I will stop your songs; the music of your harps will not be heard anymore.

Amos 5:23

Take the noise of your songs away from me! I won’t listen to the music of your harps.

Amos 8:3

“On that day the palace songs will become funeral songs,” says the Lord God. “There will be dead bodies thrown everywhere! Silence!”

1 Peter 4:3

In the past you wasted too much time doing what nonbelievers enjoy. You were guilty of sexual sins, evil desires, drunkenness, wild and drunken parties, and hateful idol worship.

Revelation 18:22

The music of people playing harps and other instruments, flutes, and trumpets, will never be heard in you again. No workman doing any job will ever be found in you again. The sound of grinding grain will never be heard in you again.