Job 21:12

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They sing to the tambourine and lyre and rejoice to the sound of the flute.

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  • Gen 4:21 : 21 His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.
  • Isa 5:12 : 12 They have harps and lyres, tambourines and flutes, and wine at their banquets, but they pay no attention to the deeds of the Lord or consider the work of His hands.
  • Amos 6:4-6 : 4 You lie on beds inlaid with ivory and lounge on your couches. You dine on choice lambs from the flock and fattened calves from the stall. 5 You strum away on your harps like David and fashion instruments for music. 6 You drink wine by the bowlful and anoint yourselves with the finest oils, but you do not grieve over the ruin of Joseph.
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 But behold, there is joy and gladness—killing cattle and slaughtering sheep, eating meat and drinking wine—saying, 'Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we die!'
  • Gen 31:27 : 27 Why did you run away secretly and deceive me? You didn’t even let me know so I could send you away with joy and singing, to the music of tambourines and harps.

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  • 11 They release their young like a flock, and their children skip about.

  • Ps 149:2-3
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    2 Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

    3 Let them praise His name with dancing; let them make music to Him with tambourines and harps.

  • Ps 150:3-5
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    3 Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; praise Him with the harp and lyre.

    4 Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes.

    5 Praise Him with resounding cymbals; praise Him with loud clashing cymbals.

  • Ps 81:1-2
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    1 For the director of music, on the Gittith, a psalm of Asaph.

    2 Sing joyfully to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob.

  • 12 They have harps and lyres, tambourines and flutes, and wine at their banquets, but they pay no attention to the deeds of the Lord or consider the work of His hands.

  • 25 Your procession has been seen, O God—the procession of my God, my King, into the sanctuary.

  • 5 You strum away on your harps like David and fashion instruments for music.

  • 8 David and all Israel celebrated with all their might before God, with songs, harps, lyres, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

  • 28 They entered Jerusalem and went to the temple of the LORD with harps, lyres, and trumpets.

  • 8 The joy of tambourines ceases, the noise of revelers stops, and the joyful sound of the harp is silenced.

  • 5 David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of instruments made of fir wood—lyres, harps, tambourines, rattles, and cymbals.

  • 13 They spend their days in prosperity, and in a moment they go down to Sheol.

  • 16 David instructed the leaders of the Levites to appoint their fellow Levites as singers, to sing joyful songs accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.

  • 28 So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouts of joy, the sound of the ram's horn, trumpets, cymbals, and the music of harps and lyres.

  • Ps 98:4-6
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    73%

    4 Shout joyfully to the LORD, all the earth; break forth with joyful singing and praises.

    5 Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of song.

    6 With trumpets and the sound of the ram’s horn, shout joyfully before the LORD, the King.

  • Ps 33:2-3
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    2 Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre; sing praises to Him with a ten-stringed instrument.

    3 Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully and shout with joy.

  • 3 To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your faithfulness by night.

  • 21 The Israelites who were present in Jerusalem celebrated the Feast of Unleavened Bread for seven days with great joy, while the Levites and priests praised the LORD day after day with loud instruments dedicated to the LORD.

  • Jer 31:12-13
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    12 They will come and shout for joy on the heights of Zion, and they will be radiant because of the LORD's bounty—grain, new wine, olive oil, the young of the flocks and herds. They will be like a well-watered garden, and they will no longer languish in sorrow.

    13 The young women will rejoice and dance, and the young men and the old together. I will turn their mourning into joy; I will comfort them and give them gladness in place of sorrow.

  • 12 young men and young women, old men and children.

  • 29 You will sing as on the night of a sacred festival; your hearts will rejoice as when people go up with flutes to the mountain of the LORD, to the Rock of Israel.

  • Lam 5:14-15
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    14 The elders have left the city gate, and the young men have ceased their music.

    15 The joy of our hearts has ended; our dancing has turned into mourning.

  • 5 When you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipes, and all kinds of music, you must fall down and worship the golden statue that King Nebuchadnezzar has set up.

  • 31 My harp is turned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

  • 12 Let the fields be jubilant, and everything in them; let all the trees of the forest sing for joy.

  • 40 All the people went up after him, playing flutes and rejoicing with such great joy that the ground shook from the sound.

  • 27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, they sought out the Levites from all their places to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgiving and with singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.

  • 12 You crown the year with your bounty, and your paths overflow with abundance.

  • 20 Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

  • 21 Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel, and Azaziah played the lyres to direct with Sheminith.

  • 6 As David was returning after striking down the Philistine, women came from all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing to meet King Saul with tambourines, songs of joy, and musical instruments.

  • 7 Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving; make music to our God with the harp.

  • 7 The whole earth is at rest and at peace; they break forth into singing.

  • Ps 100:1-2
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    1 A psalm of thanksgiving: Shout joyfully to the Lord, all the earth!

    2 Serve the Lord with gladness; come into His presence with joyful singing.

  • 15 David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouts and the sound of trumpets.

  • 15 The wicked pull them all up with a hook, drag them out with their net, and gather them in their dragnet; so they rejoice and are glad.

  • 11 Hear me, O LORD, and be merciful to me; O LORD, be my helper.

  • 12 And all the Levites who were singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, their sons, and their relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests who were blowing trumpets.

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