Amos 6:5

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David improvise on instruments of music,

Cross References

Genesis 31:27

Why did you flee secretly and deceive me and not tell me? I would have sent you away with mirth and songs, with tambourine and lyre.

1 Chronicles 15:16

David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their kindred as singers to raise loud sounds of joy on musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals.

1 Chronicles 23:5

four thousand gatekeepers, and four thousand shall offer praises to the Lord with the instruments that I have made for praise.”

2 Chronicles 29:26

The Levites stood with the instruments of David and the priests with the trumpets.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and of the provinces; I got singers, both men and women, and delights of the flesh, many concubines.

Isaiah 5:12

whose feasts consist of lyre and harp, tambourine and flute and wine, but who do not regard the deeds of the Lord or see the work of his hands!

Ezekiel 26:13

I will silence the music of your songs; the sound of your lyres shall be heard no more.

Amos 5:23

Take away from me the noise of your songs; I will not listen to the melody of your harps.

Amos 8:3

The songs of the temple shall become wailings on that day,” says the Lord God; “the dead bodies shall be many, cast out in every place. Be silent!”

1 Peter 4:3

You have already spent enough time in doing what the gentiles like to do, living in debauchery, passions, drunkenness, revels, carousing, and lawless idolatry.

Revelation 18:22

and the sound of harpists and entertainers and of flutists and trumpeters will be heard in you no more, and an artisan of any trade will be found in you no more, and the sound of the millstone will be heard in you no more,