Amos 5:23

KJV1611 – Modern English

Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your lutes.

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 6:5 : 5 Who sing to the sound of the harp, and invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
  • Amos 8:3 : 3 And the songs of the temple shall be wailings in that day, declares the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them out in silence.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; I will bring sackcloth upon all waists, and baldness upon every head; I will make it like mourning 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%

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

    22Though you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings, I will not accept them; nor will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.

  • Ezek 26:13
    80%

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

  • Isa 1:11-15
    5 verses
    72%

    11To what purpose is the multitude of your sacrifices to me? says the LORD: I am full of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals; and I delight not in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of goats.

    12When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

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

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

    15And when you spread out your hands, I will hide my eyes from you: indeed, when you make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

  • Isa 5:12
    72%

    12And the harp, and the viol, the tambourine, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they do not regard the work of the LORD, nor 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 grain offering, I will not accept them. But I will consume them by the sword, by famine, and by pestilence.

  • Jer 11:14
    71%

    14Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me for their trouble.

  • Amos 5:24
    71%

    24But let judgment run down like waters, and righteousness like a mighty stream.

  • 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 listened to my words, nor to my law, but rejected it.

    20To what purpose does incense come to me from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor are your sacrifices pleasing to me.

  • Ps 51:16
    71%

    16For you do not desire sacrifice, or I would give it; you do not delight in burnt offering.

  • Jer 7:16
    70%

    16Therefore do not pray for this people, nor lift up a cry or prayer for them, nor make intercession to me: for I will not hear you.

  • Ps 98:5
    70%

    5Sing to the LORD with the harp; with the harp and the sound of a psalm.

  • Amos 6:5
    70%

    5Who sing to the sound of the harp, and invent for themselves instruments of music, 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 your stroke away from me: I am consumed by the blow of your hand.

  • Isa 24:8
    70%

    8The mirth of tambourines ceases, the noise of those who rejoice ends, the joy of the harp ceases.

  • Mic 5:11-15
    5 verses
    70%

    11And I will cut off the cities of your land and throw down all your strongholds.

    12And I will cut off sorceries out of your hand, and you shall have no more soothsayers.

    13Your carved images also will I cut off, and your sacred pillars from the midst of you; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.

    14And I will uproot your wooden images from the midst of you; so will I destroy your cities.

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

  • Job 30:31
    69%

    31My harp is also turned to mourning, and my flute to the voice of those who weep.

  • Ps 55:2
    69%

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

  • Ps 92:3
    69%

    3On an instrument of ten strings, on the psaltery, and on the harp with a solemn sound.

  • Ps 40:6
    69%

    6Sacrifice and offering You did not desire; my ears You have opened: burnt offering and sin offering You have not required.

  • Ps 50:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8I will not reprove you for your sacrifices or your burnt offerings, which are ever before Me.

    9I will take no bull from your house, nor goats from your folds.

  • Isa 43:23
    69%

    23You have not brought Me the sheep of your burnt offerings; nor have you honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with incense.

  • Jer 25:10
    69%

    10Moreover I will take from them the voice of mirth, 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 spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your manner from your youth, that you obeyed not my voice.

  • Ps 81:2
    68%

    2Take a psalm, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant harp with the lyre.

  • Judg 5:3
    68%

    3Hear, O kings; give ear, O princes; I, even I, will sing to 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 carcasses upon the carcasses of your idols, and my soul shall abhor you.

    31And I will make your cities waste, and bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not smell the savor of your sweet aromas.

  • Ps 28:3
    68%

    3Do not draw me away with the wicked, and with the workers of iniquity, who speak peace to their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.

  • Ps 6:8
    68%

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

  • Nah 1:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14And the LORD has given a commandment concerning you, that your name shall be no longer sown: out of the house of your gods I will cut off the carved image and the molten image; I will make your grave; for you are vile.

    15Behold, upon the mountains the feet of him who brings good tidings, who publishes peace! O Judah, keep your solemn feasts, perform your vows; for the wicked shall no longer pass through you; he is utterly cut off.

  • Ezek 33:32
    68%

    32And indeed, you are to them as a very lovely song of one who has a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear your words, but they do not do them.

  • Isa 30:11
    67%

    11Get 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 says the LORD, Behold, I will bring evil upon them, which they shall not be able to escape; and though they cry to me, I will not listen to them.

  • Ps 51:11
    67%

    11Do not cast me away from your presence, and do not take your Holy Spirit from me.

  • Jer 44:5
    67%

    5But they did not listen, nor incline their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.

  • Job 21:12
    67%

    12They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice to the sound of the flute.

  • Hos 2:17
    67%

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