Amos 5:23

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Take away from me the noise of your songs; my ears are shut to the melody of your instruments.

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 6:5 : 5 Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;
  • Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the king's house will be cries of pain in that day, says the Lord God: great will be the number of the dead bodies, and everywhere they will put them out without a word.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 Your feasts will be turned into sorrow and all your melody into songs of grief; everyone will be clothed with haircloth, and the hair of every head will be cut; I will make the weeping like that for an only son, and the end of it like a bitter day.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 5:21-22
    2 verses
    81%

    21Your feasts are disgusting to me, I will have nothing to do with them; I will take no delight in your holy meetings.

    22Even if you give me your burned offerings and your meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: I will have nothing to do with the peace-offerings of your fat beasts.

  • Ezek 26:13
    80%

    13I will put an end to the noise of your songs, and the sound of your instruments of music will be gone for ever.

  • Isa 1:11-15
    5 verses
    72%

    11What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

    12At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?

    13Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.

    14Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.

    15And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

  • Isa 5:12
    72%

    12And corded instruments and wind-instruments and wine are in their feasts: but they give no thought to the work of the Lord, and they are not interested in what his hands are doing.

  • Jer 14:12
    71%

    12When they go without food, I will not give ear to their cry; when they give burned offerings and meal offerings, I will not take pleasure in them: but I will put an end to them by the sword and by need of food and by disease.

  • Jer 11:14
    71%

    14And as for you, make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them: for I will not give ear to their cry in the time of their trouble.

  • Amos 5:24
    71%

    24But let the right go rolling on like waters, and righteousness like an ever-flowing stream.

  • Jer 6:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19Give ear, O earth: see, I will make evil come on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not given attention to my words, and they would have nothing to do with my law.

    20To what purpose does sweet perfume come to me from Sheba, and spices from a far country? your burned offerings give me no pleasure, your offerings of beasts are not pleasing to me.

  • Ps 51:16
    71%

    16You have no desire for an offering or I would give it; you have no delight in burned offerings.

  • Jer 7:16
    70%

    16And as for you (Jeremiah), make no prayers for this people, send up no cry or prayer for them, make no request for them to me: for I will not give ear.

  • Ps 98:5
    70%

    5Make melody to the Lord with instruments of music; with a corded instrument and the voice of song.

  • Amos 6:5
    70%

    5Making foolish songs to the sound of corded instruments, and designing for themselves instruments of music, like David;

  • Isa 16:10
    70%

    10And all joy is gone; no longer are they glad for the fertile field; and in the vine-gardens there are no songs or sounds of joy: the crushing of grapes has come to an end, and its glad cry has been stopped.

  • Ps 39:10
    70%

    10No longer let your hand be hard on me; I am wasted by the blows of your hand.

  • Isa 24:8
    70%

    8The pleasing sound of all instruments of music has come to an end, and the voices of those who are glad.

  • Mic 5:11-14
    4 verses
    70%

    11I will put an end to your use of secret arts, and you will have no more readers of signs:

    12And I will have your images and your pillars cut off from you; and you will no longer give worship to the work of your hands.

    13I will have your Asherahs pulled up from among you: and I will send destruction on your images.

    14And my punishment will be effected on the nations with such burning wrath as they have not had word of.

  • Job 30:31
    69%

    31And my music has been turned to sorrow, and the sound of my pipe into the noise of weeping.

  • Ps 55:2
    69%

    2Give thought to me, and let my prayer be answered: I have been made low in sorrow;

  • Ps 92:3
    69%

    3On a ten-corded instrument, and on an instrument of music with a quiet sound.

  • Ps 40:6
    69%

    6You had no desire for offerings of beasts or fruits of the earth; ears you made for me: for burned offerings and sin offerings you made no request.

  • Ps 50:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8I will not take up a cause against you because of your offerings, or because of your burned offerings, which are ever before me.

    9I will take no ox out of your house, or he-goats from your flocks;

  • Isa 43:23
    69%

    23You have not made me burned offerings of sheep, or given me honour with your offerings of beasts; I did not make you servants to give me an offering, and I did not make you tired with requests for perfumes.

  • Jer 25:10
    69%

    10And more than this, I will take from them the sound of laughing voices, the voice of joy, the voice of the newly-married man, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the stones crushing the grain, and the shining of lights.

  • Jer 22:21
    69%

    21My word came to you in the time of your well-being; but you said, I will not give ear. This has been your way from your earliest years, you did not give attention to my voice.

  • Ps 81:2
    68%

    2Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.

  • Judg 5:3
    68%

    3Give attention, O kings; give ear, O rulers; I, even I, will make a song to the Lord; I will make melody to the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Lev 26:30-31
    2 verses
    68%

    30And I will send destruction on your high places, overturning your perfume altars, and will put your dead bodies on your broken images, and my soul will be turned from you in disgust.

    31And I will make your towns waste and send destruction on your holy places; I will take no pleasure in the smell of your sweet perfumes;

  • Ps 28:3
    68%

    3Do not take me away with the sinners and the workers of evil, who say words of peace to their neighbours, but evil is in their hearts.

  • Ps 6:8
    68%

    8Go from me, all you workers of evil; for the Lord has given ear to the voice of my weeping.

  • Nah 1:14
    68%

    14The Lord has given an order about you, that no more of your name are to be planted: from the house of your gods I will have the pictured and metal images cut off; I will make your last resting-place a place of shame; for you are completely evil.

  • Ezek 33:32
    68%

    32And truly you are to them like a love song by one who has a very pleasing voice and is an expert player on an instrument: for they give ear to your words but do them not.

  • Isa 30:11
    67%

    11Get out of the good way, turning from the right road; do not keep the Holy One of Israel before our minds.

  • Jer 11:11
    67%

    11So the Lord has said, I will send evil on them, which they will not be able to get away from; and they will send up a cry for help to me, but I will not give ear to them.

  • Ps 51:11
    67%

    11Do not put me away from before you, or take your holy spirit from me.

  • Jer 44:5
    67%

    5But they gave no attention, and their ears were not open so that they might be turned from their evil-doing and from burning perfume to other gods.

  • Job 21:12
    67%

    12They make songs to the instruments of music, and are glad at the sound of the pipe.

  • Hos 2:17
    67%

    17For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and never again will she say their names.