Amos 5:23
Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
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Referenced Verses
- Amos 6:5 : 5 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
- Amos 8:3 : 3 The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
- Amos 8:10 : 10 I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.
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- Amos 5:21-222 verses81%
21 I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can't stand your solemn assemblies.
22 Yes, though you offer me your burnt offerings and meal offerings, I will not accept them; neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat animals.
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13 I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.
- Isa 1:11-155 verses72%
11 "What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?," says Yahweh. "I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams, and the fat of fed animals. I don't delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats.
12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?
13 Bring no more vain offerings. Incense is an abomination to me; new moons, Sabbaths, and convocations: I can't bear with evil assemblies.
14 My soul hates your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They are a burden to me. I am weary of bearing them.
15 When you spread forth your hands, I will hide my eyes from you. Yes, when you make many prayers, I will not hear. Your hands are full of blood.
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12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
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12 When they fast, I will not hear their cry; and when they offer burnt offering and meal offering, I will not accept them; but I will consume them by the sword, and by the famine, and by the pestilence.
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14 Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up cry nor prayer for them; for I will not hear them in the time that they cry to me because of their trouble.
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24 But let justice roll on like rivers, and righteousness like a mighty stream.
- Jer 6:19-202 verses71%
19 Hear, earth! Behold, I will bring evil on this people, even the fruit of their thoughts, because they have not listened to my words; and as for my law, they have rejected it.
20 To what purpose comes there to me frankincense from Sheba, and the sweet cane from a far country? your burnt offerings are not acceptable, nor your sacrifices pleasing to me."
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16 For you don't delight in sacrifice, or else I would give it. You have no pleasure in burnt offering.
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16 Therefore don't pray for this people, neither lift up a cry nor prayer for them, neither make intercession to me; for I will not hear you.
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5 Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody.
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5 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
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10 Gladness is taken away, and joy out of the fruitful field; and in the vineyards there will be no singing, neither joyful noise. Nobody will tread out wine in the presses. I have made the shouting stop.
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10 Remove your scourge away from me. I am overcome by the blow of your hand.
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8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
- Mic 5:11-155 verses70%
11 I will cut off the cities of your land, and will tear down all your strongholds.
12 I will destroy witchcraft from your hand; and you shall have no soothsayers.
13 I will cut off your engraved images and your pillars out of your midst; and you shall no more worship the work of your hands.
14 I will uproot your Asherim out of your midst; and I will destroy your cities.
15 I will execute vengeance in anger, and wrath on the nations that didn't listen."
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31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
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2 Attend to me, and answer me. I am restless in my complaint, and moan,
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3 with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.
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6 Sacrifice and offering you didn't desire. You have opened my ears. You have not required burnt offering and sin offering.
- Ps 50:8-92 verses69%
8 I don't rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me.
9 I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens.
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23 You have not brought me of your sheep for burnt offerings; neither have you honored me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with offerings, nor wearied you with frankincense.
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10 Moreover 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 lamp.
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21 I spoke to you in your prosperity; but you said, I will not hear. This has been your way from your youth, that you didn't obey my voice.
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2 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
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3 "Hear, you kings! Give ear, you princes! I, [even] I, will sing to Yahweh. I will sing praise to Yahweh, the God of Israel.
- Lev 26:30-312 verses68%
30 I will destroy your high places, and cut down your incense altars, and cast your dead bodies upon the bodies of your idols; and my soul will abhor you.
31 I will lay your cities waste, and will bring your sanctuaries to desolation, and I will not take delight in the sweet fragrance of your offerings.
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3 Don't draw me away with the wicked, with the workers of iniquity who speak peace with their neighbors, but mischief is in their hearts.
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8 Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity, for Yahweh has heard the voice of my weeping.
- Nah 1:14-152 verses68%
14 Yahweh has commanded concerning you: "No more descendants will bear your name. Out of the house of your gods, will I cut off the engraved image and the molten image. I will make your grave, for you are vile."
15 Behold, on the mountains the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace! Keep your feasts, Judah! Perform your vows, for the wicked one will no more pass through you. He is utterly cut off.
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32 Behold, 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 don't do them.
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11 Get out of the way. Turn aside from the path. Cause the Holy One of Israel to cease from before us."
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11 Therefore thus says Yahweh, Behold, I will bring evil on them, which they shall not be able to escape; and they shall cry to me, but I will not listen to them.
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11 Don't throw me from your presence, and don't take your holy Spirit from me.
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5 But they didn't listen, nor inclined their ear to turn from their wickedness, to burn no incense to other gods.
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12 They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
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17 For I will take away the names of the Baals out of her mouth, and they will no longer be mentioned by name.