Woe to Rebellious Israel
Amos 5:23
In 11 translations
- BSB
- Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
- KJV
- Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
- WEB
- Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
- ASV
- Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
- LSV
- Turn the noise of your songs aside from Me, || Indeed, I do not hear the praise of your stringed instruments.
- YLT
- Turn aside from Me the noise of thy songs, Yea, the praise of thy psaltery I hear not.
- DBY
- Take away from me the noise of thy songs, and I will not hear the melody of thy lutes;
- DRC
- Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.
- GNV
- Take thou away from me the multitude of thy songs (for I wil not heare the melodie of thy violes)
- JPS
- Take thou away from Me the noise of thy songs; and let Me not hear the melody of thy psalteries.
- LXXE
- Remove from me the sound of thy songs, and I will not hear the music of thine instruments.
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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.
Original-language editions
- WLC
- הָסֵ֥ר מֵעָלַ֖י הֲמ֣וֹן שִׁרֶ֑יךָ וְזִמְרַ֥ת נְבָלֶ֖יךָ לֹ֥א אֶשְׁמָֽע׃
- LXX-Br
- Μετάστησον ἀπʼ ἐμοῦ ἦχον ᾠδῶν σου, καὶ ψαλμὸν ὀργάνων σου οὐκ ἀκούσομαι.
Who and where
◆ Prophecies of Amos
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In the reference works topics that cite this verse
MusicMelodyViolPekahiahPsalteryFormalismIdolatryHigh PlacePriests and LevitesLaw in the Old Testament
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Amos 6:5You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
- Amos 8:10I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome…
- Amos 8:3“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).