Bible Verses About Music Performance

Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.

Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

And David and all the house of Israel played before the Lord on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.

But now bring me a minstrel. And it came to pass, when the minstrel played, that the hand of the Lord came upon him.

Sing unto the Lord with thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:

Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;

For in the days of David and Asaph of old there were chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving unto God.

All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

And they came to Jerusalem with psalteries and harps and trumpets unto the house of the Lord.

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the Lord, neither consider the operation of his hands.

I gathered me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces: I gat me men singers and women singers, and the delights of the sons of men, as musical instruments, and that of all sorts.

And Mattithiah, and Elipheleh, and Mikneiah, and Obed–edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps on the Sheminith to excel.

I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

Praise ye the Lord: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.

Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.

O sing unto the Lord a new song: sing unto the Lord, all the earth.

Thou, O king, hast made a decree, that every man that shall hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, and dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, shall fall down and worship the golden image:

And, lo, thou art unto them as a very lovely song of one that hath a pleasant voice, and can play well on an instrument: for they hear thy words, but they do them not.

That at what time ye hear the sound of the cornet, flute, harp, sackbut, psaltery, dulcimer, and all kinds of musick, ye fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king hath set up:

Praise ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.

Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:

Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.

And he set the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for so was the commandment of the Lord by his prophets.

So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, were appointed to sound with cymbals of brass;

And these are they whom David set over the service of song in the house of the Lord, after that the ark had rest.

I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

And Chenaniah, chief of the Levites, was for song: he instructed about the song, because he was skilful.

The Lord was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the Lord.

Sing unto the Lord, bless his name; shew forth his salvation from day to day.

With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King.

Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.