Amos 6:5

In 11 translations

BSB

You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

KJV

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

WEB

who strum on the strings of a harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

ASV

that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

LSV

Who are taking part according to the stringed instrument, || Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;

YLT

Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;

DBY

that chant to the sound of the lute, [and] invent them instruments of music, like David;

DRC

You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David;

GNV

They sing to the sounde of the viole: they inuent to themselues instruments of musike like Dauid.

JPS

That thrum on the psaltery, that devise for themselves instruments of music, like David;

LXXE

who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as abiding, not as fleeting pleasures;

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Original-language editions

WLC

הַפֹּרְטִ֖ים עַל־פִּ֣י הַנָּ֑בֶל כְּדָוִ֕יד חָשְׁב֥וּ לָהֶ֖ם כְּלֵי־שִֽׁיר׃

LXX-Br

οἱ ἐπικροτοῦντες πρὸς τὴν φωνὴν τῶν ὀργάνων, ὡς ἑστηκότα ἐλογίσαντο, καὶ οὐχ ὡς φεύγοντα,

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• Isaiah 5:12At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
• Amos 5:23Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
• 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!”
• Revelation 18:22And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.
• Genesis 31:27Why did you run away secretly and deceive me, without even telling me? I would have sent you away with joy and singing, with tambourines and harps.
• Ecclesiastes 2:8and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I gathered to myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men—many concubines.
• 1 Peter 4:3For you have spent enough time in the past carrying out the same desires as the Gentiles: living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
• 1 Chronicles 23:54,000 are to be gatekeepers, and 4,000 are to praise the LORD with the instruments I have made for giving praise.”
• 1 Chronicles 15:16David also told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their relatives as singers to lift up their voices with joy, accompanied by musical instruments—harps, lyres, and cymbals.
• Job 21:11–12They send forth their little ones like a flock; their children skip about, singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

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