Amos 5:23
Take thou away from me the multitude of thy songs (for I wil not heare the melodie of thy violes)
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Referenced Verses
- Amos 6:5 : 5 They sing to the sounde of the viole: they inuent to themselues instruments of musike like Dauid.
- Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the Temple shalbe howlings in that day, saith the Lord God: many dead bodies shalbe in euery place: they shall cast them forth with silence.
- Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turne your feastes into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation: and I will bring sackcloth vpon all loynes, and baldnes vpon euery head: and I will make it as the mourning of an onely sonne, and the ende thereof as a bitter day.
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- Amos 5:21-222 verses81%
21 I hate and abhorre your feast dayes, and I wil not smell in your solemne assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me burnt offrings & meat offrings, I wil not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offrings of your fat beasts.
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13 Thus will I cause the sounde of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thine harpes shall be no more heard.
- Isa 1:11-155 verses72%
11 What haue I to doe with the multitude of your sacrifices, sayth the Lorde? I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, & of the fat of fed beasts: and I desire not the blood of bullocks, nor of lambs, nor of goates.
12 When ye come to appeare before me, who required this of your hands to tread in my courts?
13 Bring no mo oblations, in vaine: incense is an abomination vnto me: I can not suffer your newe moones, nor Sabbaths, nor solemne dayes (it is iniquitie) nor solemne assemblies.
14 My soule hateth your newe moones and your appointed feastes: they are a burden vnto me: I am weary to beare them.
15 And when you shall stretch out your hands, I wil hide mine eyes from you: and though ye make many prayers, I wil not heare: for your hands are full of blood.
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12 And the harpe and viole, timbrel, and pipe, and wine are in their feastes: but they regard not the worke of the Lorde, neither consider the worke of his handes.
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12 When they fast, I will not heare their cry, and when they offer burnt offering, and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sworde, and by the famine and by the pestilence.
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14 Therfore thou shalt not pray for this people, neither lift vp a crie, or prayer for them: for when they cry vnto mee in their trouble, I will not heare them.
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24 And let iudgement runne downe as waters, and righteousnesse as a mightie riuer.
- Jer 6:19-202 verses71%
19 Heare, O earth, beholde, I will cause a plague to come vpon this people, euen the fruite of their owne imaginations: because they haue not taken heede vnto my woordes, nor to my Lawe, but cast it off.
20 To what purpose bringest thou mee incense from Sheba, and sweete calamus from a farre countrey? Your burnt offerings are not pleasant, nor your sacrifices sweete vnto me.
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16 For thou desirest no sacrifice, though I would giue it: thou delitest not in burnt offering.
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16 Therfore thou shalt not pray for this people, neither lift vp crie or praier for them neither intreat me, for I will not heare thee.
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5 Sing prayse to the Lorde vpon the harpe, euen vpon the harpe with a singing voyce.
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5 They sing to the sounde of the viole: they inuent to themselues instruments of musike like Dauid.
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10 And gladnes is taken away, and ioy out of the plentifull fielde: and in the vineyardes shall be no singing nor shouting for ioy: the treader shall not tread wine in the wine presses: I haue caused the reioycing to cease.
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10 Take thy plague away from mee: for I am consumed by the stroke of thine hand.
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8 The mirth of tabrets ceaseth: the noyse of them that reioyce, endeth: the ioye of the harpe ceaseth.
- Mic 5:11-155 verses70%
11 And I will cut off the cities of thy land, & ouerthrowe all thy strong holdes.
12 And I will cut off thine enchanters out of thine hande: and thou shalt haue no more southsayers.
13 Thine idoles also will I cut off, and thine images out of the middes of thee: and thou shalt no more worship the woorke of thine hands.
14 And I wil plucke vp thy groues out of the middes of thee: so will I destroy thine enemies.
15 And I will execute a vegeance in my wrath and indignation vpon the heathen, which they haue not heard.
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31 Therefore mine harpe is turned to mourning, and mine organs into the voyce of them that weepe.
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2 Hearken vnto me, & answere me: I mourne in my prayer, and make a noyse,
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3 Vpon an instrument of tenne strings, and vpon the viole with the song vpon the harpe.
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6 Sacrifice & offering thou didest not desire: (for mine eares hast thou prepared) burnt offring and sinne offering hast thou not required.
- Ps 50:8-92 verses69%
8 I wil not reproue thee for thy sacrifices, or thy burnt offerings, that haue not bene continually before me.
9 I will take no bullocke out of thine house, nor goates out of thy foldes.
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23 Thou hast not brought me the sheepe of thy burnt offrings, neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I haue not caused thee to serue with an offring, nor wearied thee with incense.
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10 Moreouer I will take from them the voyce of mirth and the voyce of gladnesse, the voyce of the bridegrome and the voyce of the bride, the noise of the milstones, and the light of the candle.
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21 I spake vnto thee when thou wast in prosperitie: but thou saidest, I will not heare: this hath bene thy maner from thy youth, that thou wouldest not obey my voyce.
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2 Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harpe with the viole.
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3 Heare, ye Kings, hearken ye princes: I, euen I will sing vnto the Lord: I will sing praise vnto the Lord God of Israel.
- Lev 26:30-312 verses68%
30 I will also destroy your hye places, & cut away your images, and cast your carkeises vpon the bodies of your idoles, and my soule shall abhorre you.
31 And I will make your cities desolate, and bring your Sanctuarie vnto nought, and will not smell the sauour of your sweete odours.
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3 Drawe mee not away with the wicked, and with the woorkers of iniquitie: which speake friendly to their neighbours, when malice is in their hearts.
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8 Away from mee all ye workers of iniquitie: for the Lorde hath heard the voyce of my weeping.
- Nah 1:14-152 verses68%
14 And the Lorde hath giuen a commandement concerning thee, that no more of thy name be sowen: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the grauen, and the molten image: I will make it thy graue for thee, for thou art vile.
15 Beholde vpon the mountaines the feete of him that declareth, and publisheth peace: O Iudah, keepe thy solemne feastes, perfourme thy vowes: for the wicked shall no more passe thorowe thee: he is vtterly cut off.
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32 And loe, thou art vnto them, as a iesting song of one that hath a pleasant voyce, and can sing well: for they heare thy woordes, but they doe them not.
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11 Depart out of the way: go aside out of the path: cause the holy one of Israel to cease fro vs.
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11 Therefore thus sayth the Lord, Beholde, I will bring a plague vpon them, which they shall not be able to escape, and though they crye vnto me, I will not heare them.
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11 Cast mee not away from thy presence, and take not thine holy Spirit from me.
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5 But they would not heare nor incline their eare to turne from their wickednes, and to burne no more incense vnto other gods.
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12 They take the tabret & harpe, and reioyce in the sound of the organs.
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17 For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall be no more remembred by their names.