Amos 5:23

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“Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.”

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BSBPD

“Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.”

Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)
KJVPD

“Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.”

King James Version · Public Domain
ASVPD

“Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.”

American Standard Version · Public Domain
YLTPD

“Turn aside from Me the noise of thy songs, Yea, the praise of thy psaltery I hear not.”

Young's Literal Translation · Public Domain
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Cross references

Other passages that echo Amos 5:23 — 3 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  1. Amos 6:5You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.
  2. 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!”
  3. 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 like a bitter day.

Cross-reference data: Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain) via OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0).

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