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Bible Verses About Music

This collection includes 50 passages about Music. Copy a verse or open its chapter for context.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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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.

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

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

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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.

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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.

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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:

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

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

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

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Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:

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

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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:

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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.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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

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

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

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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.

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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.

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O come, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.

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Behold their sitting down, and their rising up; I am their musick.

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

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And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy harps shall be no more heard.

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

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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.

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

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Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him: talk ye of all his wondrous works.

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Sing unto him, sing psalms unto him, talk ye of all his wondrous works.

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I will praise the name of God with a song, and will magnify him with thanksgiving.

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