Amos 6:5

WEB

⁵who strum on the strings of a harp, who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

KJV

⁵That chant^[+] to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

BSB

⁵You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

FBV

⁵You make up songs accompanied by the harp, thinking you're great composers like David.

Extra References

Isaiah 5:12

¹²The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don’t respect the work of the LORD, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

Amos 5:23

²³Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

Amos 8:3

³The songs of the temple will be wailing in that day,” says the Lord GOD. “The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

²²The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman of whatever craft will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.

Job 21:11-12

¹¹They send out their little ones like a flock. Their children dance. ¹²They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

1 Chronicles 23:5

⁵four thousand were doorkeepers, and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made for giving praise.”

Genesis 31:27

²⁷Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn’t tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

Ecclesiastes 2:8

⁸I also gathered silver and gold for myself, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got myself male and female singers, and the delights of the sons of men: musical instruments of all sorts.

1 Chronicles 15:16

¹⁶David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.

1 Peter 4:3

³For we have spent enough of our past time doing the desire of the Gentiles, and having walked in lewdness, lusts, drunken binges, orgies, carousings, and abominable idolatries.