Amos 6:5

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Amos 6:5

That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;

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Why did you deceive me and slip away without telling me? If you had told me, I would have sent you on your way with rejoicing and singing to the music of tambourines and harps.

They send out their little ones like a flock, and their children dance around.

I gathered silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I acquired male and female singers, the delights of the sons of men, girls of all sorts to be my brides.

At their feasts there are lyres and harps, tambourines and flutes, and wine. Yet, they do not pay attention to what Jehovah is doing or respect what his hands have done.

You have spent enough time in the past doing what unbelievers like to do. Your lives were spent in indecency, lusts, drunkenness, orgies, drinking parties, and the disgusting worship of idols (false gods).

The sound of harp players, and musicians, and of pipers, and trumpeters, will not be heard anymore in you. No craftsman will be found in you. The sound of a millstone will not be heard in you anymore.

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

The songs of the Temple will be weeping in that day, said the Lord Jehovah: the dead bodies shall be many. They will observe silence in every place.

Four thousand are to be gatekeepers and four thousand are to praise Jehovah with musical instruments I have provided for that purpose.

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They sing to the tambourine and the lyre, and rejoice to the sound of the pipe.

They no longer drink wine with a song. The beverage is bitter to its drinkers.

Moreover you shall not go into a house of feasting to sit with them to eat and drink.

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.