Amos 6:5

New Living Translation

You sing trivial songs to the sound of the harp and fancy yourselves to be great musicians like David.

Cross References

Genesis 31:27

Why did you slip away secretly? Why did you deceive me? And why didn’t you say you wanted to leave? I would have given you a farewell feast, with singing and music, accompanied by tambourines and harps.

1 Chronicles 15:16

David also ordered the Levite leaders to appoint a choir of Levites who were singers and musicians to sing joyful songs to the accompaniment of harps, lyres, and cymbals.

1 Chronicles 23:5

Another 4,000 will work as gatekeepers, and 4,000 will praise the Lord with the musical instruments I have made.”

2 Chronicles 29:26

The Levites then took their positions around the Temple with the instruments of David, and the priests took their positions with the trumpets.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I collected great sums of silver and gold, the treasure of many kings and provinces. I hired wonderful singers, both men and women, and had many beautiful concubines. I had everything a man could desire!

Isaiah 5:12

They furnish wine and lovely music at their grand parties— lyre and harp, tambourine and flute— but they never think about the Lord or notice what he is doing.

Ezekiel 26:13

I will stop the music of your songs. No more will the sound of harps be heard among your people.

Amos 5:23

Away with your noisy hymns of praise! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

Amos 8:3

In that day the singing in the temple will turn to wailing. Dead bodies will be scattered everywhere. They will be carried out of the city in silence. I, the Sovereign Lord, have spoken!”

1 Peter 4:3

You have had enough in the past of the evil things that godless people enjoy—their immorality and lust, their feasting and drunkenness and wild parties, and their terrible worship of idols.

Revelation 18:22

The sound of harps, singers, flutes, and trumpets will never be heard in you again. No craftsmen and no trades will ever be found in you again. The sound of the mill will never be heard in you again.