Amos 5:23

King James Version 1769 (Standard Version)

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 6:5 : 5 That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
  • Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 5:21-22
    2 verses
    81%

    21I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.

    22Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept them: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

  • Ezek 26:13
    80%

    13And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

  • Isa 1:11-15
    5 verses
    72%

    11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices unto me? saith the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed beasts; and I delight not in the blood of bullocks, or of lambs, or of he goats.

    12When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

    13Bring no more vain oblations; incense is an abomination unto me; the new moons and sabbaths, the calling of assemblies, I cannot away with; it is iniquity, even the solemn meeting.

    14Your new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble unto me; I am weary to bear them.

    15And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

  • Isa 5:12
    72%

    12And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.

  • Jer 14:12
    71%

    12When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and an oblation, I will not accept them: but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.

  • Jer 11:14
    71%

    14Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up a cry or prayer for them: for I will not hear them in the time that they cry unto me for their trouble.

  • Amos 5:24
    71%

    24But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stre.

  • Jer 6:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19Hear, O earth: behold, I will bring evil upon this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not hearkened unto my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

    20To what purpose cometh there to me incense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices sweet unto me.

  • Ps 51:16
    71%

    16For thou desirest not sacrifice; else would I give it: thou delightest not in burnt offering.

  • Jer 7:16
    70%

    16Therefore pray not thou for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me: for I will not hear thee.

  • Ps 98:5
    70%

    5Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a alm.

  • Amos 6:5
    70%

    5That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

  • Isa 16:10
    70%

    10And gladness is taken away, and joy out of the plentiful field; and in the vineyards there shall be no singing, neither shall there be shouting: the treaders shall tread out no wine in their presses; I have made their vintage shouting to cease.

  • Ps 39:10
    70%

    10Remove thy stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of thine hand.

  • Isa 24:8
    70%

    8The mirth of tabrets ceaseth, the noise of them that rejoice endeth, the joy of the harp ceaseth.

  • Mic 5:11-15
    5 verses
    70%

    11And I will cut off the cities of thy land, and throw down all thy strong holds:

    12And I will cut off witchcrafts out of thine hand; and thou shalt have no more soothsayers:

    13Thy graven images also will I cut off, and thy standing images out of the midst of thee; and thou shalt no more worship the work of thine hands.

    14And I will pluck up thy groves out of the midst of thee: so will I destroy thy cities.

    15And I will execute vengeance in anger and fury upon the heathen, such as they have not heard.

  • Job 30:31
    69%

    31My harp also is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.

  • Ps 55:2
    69%

    2Attend unto me, and hear me: I mourn in my complaint, and make a noise;

  • Ps 92:3
    69%

    3Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the altery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

  • Ps 40:6
    69%

    6Sacrifice and offering thou didst not desire; mine ears hast thou opened: burnt offering and sin offering hast thou not required.

  • Ps 50:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8I will not reprove thee for thy sacrifices or thy burnt offerings, to have been continually before me.

    9I will take no bullock out of thy house, nor he goats out of thy folds.

  • Isa 43:23
    69%

    23Thou hast not brought me the small cattle of thy burnt offerings; neither hast thou honoured me with thy sacrifices. I have not caused thee to serve with an offering, nor wearied thee with incense.

  • Jer 25:10
    69%

    10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the candle.

  • Jer 22:21
    69%

    21I spake unto thee in thy prosperity; but thou saidst, I will not hear. This hath been thy manner from thy youth, that thou obeyedst not my voice.

  • Ps 81:2
    68%

    2Take a alm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the altery.

  • Judg 5:3
    68%

    3Hear, O ye kings; give ear, O ye princes; I, even I, will sing unto the LORD; I will sing praise to the LORD God of Israel.

  • Lev 26:30-31
    2 verses
    68%

    30And I will destroy your high places, and cut down your images, and cast your carcases upon the carcases of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

    31And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries unto desolation, and I will not smell the savour of your sweet odours.

  • Ps 28:3
    68%

    3Draw me not away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, which speak peace to their neighbours, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • Ps 6:8
    68%

    8Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity; for the LORD hath heard the voice of my weeping.

  • Nah 1:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14And the LORD hath given a commandment concerning thee, that no more of thy me be sown: out of the house of thy gods will I cut off the graven image and the molten image: I will make thy grave; for thou art vile.

    15Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

  • Ezek 33:32
    68%

    32And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

  • Isa 30:11
    67%

    11Get you out of the way, turn aside out of the path, cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us.

  • Jer 11:11
    67%

    11Therefore thus saith the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they shall cry unto me, I will not hearken unto them.

  • Ps 51:11
    67%

    11Cast me not away from thy presence; and take not thy holy spirit from me.

  • Jer 44:5
    67%

    5But they hearkened not, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense unto other gods.

  • Job 21:12
    67%

    12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.

  • Hos 2:17
    67%

    17For I will take away the names of Baalim out of her mouth, and they shall no more be remembered by their name.