Amos 5:23
Take away from me your noisy songs; I don’t want to hear the music of your stringed instruments.
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Referenced Verses
- Amos 6:5 : 5 They sing to the tune of stringed instruments; like David they invent musical instruments.
- Amos 8:3 : 3 The women singing in the temple will wail in that day.” The Sovereign LORD is speaking.“There will be many corpses littered everywhere! Be quiet!”
- Amos 8:10 : 10 I will turn your festivals into funerals, and all your songs into funeral dirges. I will make everyone wear funeral clothes and cause every head to be shaved bald. I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day.
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- Amos 5:21-222 verses81%
21“I absolutely despise your festivals! I get no pleasure from your religious assemblies!
22Even if you offer me burnt and grain offerings, I will not be satisfied; I will not look with favor on your peace offerings of fattened calves.
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13I will silence the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.
- Isa 1:11-155 verses72%
11“Of what importance to me are your many sacrifices?” says the LORD.“I have had my fill of burnt sacrifices of rams and the fat from steers. The blood of bulls, lambs, and goats I do not want.
12When you enter my presence, do you actually think I want this– animals trampling on my courtyards?
13Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; I consider your incense detestable! You observe new moon festivals, Sabbaths, and convocations, but I cannot tolerate sin-stained celebrations!
14I hate your new moon festivals and assemblies; they are a burden that I am tired of carrying.
15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I look the other way; when you offer your many prayers, I do not listen, because your hands are covered with blood.
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12They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the LORD is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.
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12Even if they fast, I will not hear their cries for help. Even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will kill them through wars, famines, and plagues.”
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14But as for you, Jeremiah, do not pray for these people. Do not raise a cry of prayer for them. For I will not listen to them when they call out to me for help when disaster strikes them.”
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24Justice must flow like torrents of water, righteous actions like a stream that never dries up.
- Jer 6:19-202 verses71%
19Hear this, you peoples of the earth:‘Take note! I am about to bring disaster on these people. It will come as punishment for their scheming. For they have paid no attention to what I have said, and they have rejected my law.
20I take no delight when they offer up to me frankincense that comes from Sheba or sweet-smelling cane imported from a faraway land. I cannot accept the burnt offerings they bring me. I get no pleasure from the sacrifices they offer to me.’
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16Certainly you do not want a sacrifice, or else I would offer it; you do not desire a burnt sacrifice.
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16“But as for you, Jeremiah, do not pray for these people! Do not raise a cry of prayer for them! Do not plead with me to save them, because I will not listen to you.
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5Sing to the LORD accompanied by a harp, accompanied by a harp and the sound of music!
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5They sing to the tune of stringed instruments; like David they invent musical instruments.
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10Joy and happiness disappear from the orchards, and in the vineyards no one rejoices or shouts; no one treads out juice in the wine vats– I have brought the joyful shouts to an end.
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10Please stop wounding me! You have almost beaten me to death!
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8The happy sound of the tambourines stops, the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt, the happy sound of the harp ceases.
- Mic 5:11-155 verses70%
11I will destroy the cities of your land, and tear down all your fortresses.
12I will remove the sorcery that you practice, and you will no longer have omen readers living among you.
13I will remove your idols and sacred pillars from your midst; you will no longer worship what your own hands made.
14I will uproot your images of Asherah from your midst, and destroy your idols.
15With furious anger I will carry out vengeance on the nations that do not obey me.”
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31My harp is used for mourning and my flute for the sound of weeping.
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2Pay attention to me and answer me! I am so upset and distressed, I am beside myself,
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3to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument and a lyre, to the accompaniment of the meditative tone of the harp.
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6Receiving sacrifices and offerings are not your primary concern. You make that quite clear to me! You do not ask for burnt sacrifices and sin offerings.
- Ps 50:8-92 verses69%
8I am not condemning you because of your sacrifices, or because of your burnt sacrifices that you continually offer me.
9I do not need to take a bull from your household or goats from your sheepfolds.
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23You did not bring me lambs for your burnt offerings; you did not honor me with your sacrifices. I did not burden you with offerings; I did not make you weary by demanding incense.
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10I will put an end to the sounds of joy and gladness, to the glad celebration of brides and grooms in these lands. I will put an end to the sound of people grinding meal. I will put an end to lamps shining in their houses.
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21While you were feeling secure I gave you warning. But you said,“I refuse to listen to you.” That is the way you have acted from your earliest history onward. Indeed, you have never paid attention to me.
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2Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!
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3Hear, O kings! Pay attention, O rulers! I will sing to the LORD! I will sing to the LORD God of Israel!
- Lev 26:30-312 verses68%
30I will destroy your high places and cut down your incense altars, and I will stack your dead bodies on top of the lifeless bodies of your idols. I will abhor you.
31I will lay your cities waste and make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will refuse to smell your soothing aromas.
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3Do not drag me away with evil men, with those who behave wickedly, who talk so friendly to their neighbors, while they plan to harm them!
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8Turn back from me, all you who behave wickedly, for the LORD has heard the sound of my weeping!
- Nah 1:14-152 verses68%
14Oracle of Judgment against the King of Nineveh The LORD has issued a decree against you:“Your dynasty will come to an end. I will destroy the idols and images in the temples of your gods. I will desecrate your grave– because you are accursed!”
15Proclamation of the Deliverance of Judah(2:1) Look! A herald is running on the mountains! A messenger is proclaiming deliverance:“Celebrate your sacred festivals, O Judah! Fulfill your sacred vows to praise God! For never again will the wicked Assyrians invade you, they have been completely destroyed.”
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32Realize that to them you are like a sensual song, a beautiful voice and skilled musician. They hear your words, but they do not obey them.
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11Turn aside from the way; stray off the path. Remove from our presence the Holy One of Israel.”
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11So I, the LORD, say this:‘I will soon bring disaster on them which they will not be able to escape! When they cry out to me for help, I will not listen to them.
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11Do not reject me! Do not take your holy Spirit away from me!
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5But the people of Jerusalem and Judah would not listen or pay any attention. They would not stop the wickedness they were doing nor quit sacrificing to other gods.
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12They sing to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute.
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17For I will remove the names of the Baal idols from your lips, so that you will never again utter their names!”