Bible Verses About Musical Performances

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.

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

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

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.

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

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 thanksgiving; sing praise upon the harp unto our God:

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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:

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:

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.

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.

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

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

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 at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with thanksgivings, and with singing, with cymbals, psalteries, and with harps.

And it came to pass as they came, when David was returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tabrets, with joy, and with instruments of musick.

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.

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

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.

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

And all the congregation worshipped, and the singers sang, and the trumpeters sounded: and all this continued until the burnt offering was finished.

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

And when Jesus came into the ruler’s house, and saw the minstrels and the people making a noise,

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

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

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

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