11 Bible Verses about Composers

Write this song for yourselves, and teach it to the sons of Israel. Put it on their lips, so that this song may be a witness for me against the sons of Israel.

So Moses wrote this song the same day, and taught it to the sons of Israel.

The whole congregation of Israel listened. Moses recited all the words of this song:

Then Moses came, along with Joshua son of Nun, and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

Give ear, O [physical] heavens, and I will speak; and hear, O earth, the words of my mouth. My instruction shall drop as the rain; my words shall descend like dew, as the gentle rains on the tender plant, and as the showers on vegetation. I will proclaim the name of Jehovah and ascribe greatness to our God.read more.
He is the Rock! His work is perfect. For all His ways are just. He is a God of faithfulness and without evil. He is just and upright. They have corrupted themselves; they are not His sons. They are a blemished, crooked and perverse generation. Is this how you repay Jehovah, you foolish and unwise people? Is he not your Father and creator, who made you and formed you? Remember the days of old. Think about all the past generations. Ask your fathers to remind you, and your elders to tell you. When the Most High gave nations their inheritance, when he divided the descendants of Adam, he set up borders for the tribes corresponding to the number of the sons of Israel. Jehovah's people were his property. Jacob was God's own possession. He found his people in a desert land, in a barren place where animals howl. He guarded them, took care of them, and protected them because they were the precious apple (pupil) of his eye. Like an eagle that stirs up its nest and hovers over its young, spreads its wings to catch them, and carries them on its wings, Jehovah alone led his people. No foreign god was with them. He made him ride on the heights of the earth and fed him with the produce of the fields. He gave him honey from rocks and olive oil from solid rock. He ate cheese from cows and drank milk from sheep and goats. He gave them fat (the best from the flock) from lambs, rams from the stock of Bashan, male goats, and the best wheat. He drank the blood-red wine of grapes. Jeshurun (Israel) grew fat and disrespectful. You got fat! You were stuffed! You over eat! He abandoned the God who made him and scornfully treated the rock of his salvation. They made God furious because they worshiped foreign gods and angered him (stirred up his zeal) because they worshiped worthless idols. They sacrificed to demons that are not God. They served gods they did not know. These were new gods who came from nearby, gods your ancestors never worshiped. You ignored the rock that fathered you and forgot the God who gave you life. Jehovah saw this and rejected them. His own sons and daughters made him angry. He said: 'I will turn away from them and find out what will happen to them. They are a devious and perverse generation. They are children who have no faith. They made him furious because they worshiped foreign gods. They angered him because they worshiped worthless idols. So I will use those who are not my people to make them jealous and a nation of godless fools to make them angry. My anger has started a fire that will burn into the depths of the grave. It will consume the earth and its crops and set the foundations of the mountains on fire. I will heap distress on them! I will use my arrows on them. They will be wasted by famine, and consumed by plague and bitter destruction. I will send teeth of wild animals on them, with the venom of crawling things (reptiles) of the dust. Outside the sword will bereave. Inside terror shall destroy both young man and virgin, babies and old man with gray hair. I would have said: 'I will cut them to pieces. I will remove the memory of them from men.' I did not want their enemies to make me angry. I did not want their opponents to misunderstand and say: We won this victory! Jehovah did not do all this! My people have lost their good sense. They do not understand. They fail to see why they were defeated. They cannot understand what happened. Why were a thousand defeated by one? Why ten thousand by only two? Jehovah their God abandoned them! Their mighty God gave them up. Their rock is not like our rock! Their enemies know that their own gods are weak, not mighty like Israel's God. Their vine is like the vine of Sodom. Their fields are like Gomorrah. Their grapes are grapes of anger. Their clusters are bitter. Their wine is the poison of serpents, and the cruel venom of asps (cobras). Is this not laid up in store with me and sealed up among my treasures? Vengeance and retribution belong to me. (Vengeance is mine, I will repay.) Their foot shall slide in time, for the day of their calamity is at hand. The things to come on them come quickly. Jehovah will bring his people justice. He will have compassion on his servants. He sees that their power is gone, and only the imprisoned and abandoned remain. He will say: 'Where are their gods, the rock in which they sought refuge? Who ate the fat of their sacrifices? Who drank the wine of their drink offering? Let them rise up and help you. Let them be your hiding place! See now that I, even I, am he. There is no god besides me! It is I who put to death and give life. I have wounded and it is I who heals. There is no one who can deliver from my hand. Indeed, I lift up my hand to heaven, and say: As I live forever, I sharpen my flashing sword, and my hand takes hold on justice! I will render vengeance on my adversaries. I will repay those who hate me. I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword will devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the longhaired leaders of the enemy. Rejoice you nations with his people. He will avenge the blood of his servants. He will render vengeance on his adversaries, and will atone for his land and his people. Then Moses came, along with Joshua son of Nun, and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people.

They sing the song of Moses, the servant of God, and the song of the Lamb, saying: Great and marvelous are your works, Jehovah God, the Almighty; just and true are your ways, you King of the ages (Eternal King) (King of the nations) (King of the holy ones). (Deuteronomy 31:30; 32:4) (Exodus 6:3)

These are the last words of David: Here is the declaration by David, son of Jesse. The declaration by the man whom God raised up, whom the God of Jacob anointed, the singer of Israel's psalms:

For David said in the book of Psalms: Jehovah said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand.

He wrote three thousand proverbs and more than a thousand songs.

That day Deborah and Barak sang this song: Praise Jehovah! The Israelites were determined to fight. The people gladly volunteered. Listen, you kings! Pay attention, you rulers! I will sing and play music to Israel's God, Jehovah.read more.
Jehovah, when you left the mountains of Seir, when you came out of Edom, the earth shook, and rain fell from the sky. Yes, water poured out of the clouds. The mountains shook before Jehovah of Sinai, before Jehovah, the God of Israel. In the days of Shamgar son of Anath, in the days of Jael, the highways were deserted. Travelers used the back roads. The towns of Israel were abandoned. They stood empty until I Deborah came, came like a mother for Israel. There was war in the land when the Israelites chose new gods. Of the forty thousand men in Israel, did anyone carry shield or spear? My heart is with the commanders of Israel, with the people who gladly volunteered. Praise Jehovah! Speak of it, you who ride on white donkeys, sitting on saddles. You that must walk wherever you go. Listen! The noisy crowds around the wells are telling about Jehovah's victories, the victories of Israel's people! Then Jehovah's people marched down from their cities. Wake up, wake up, Deborah: awake, awake, and utter a song. Arise, Barak, and lead your captives away, you son of Abinoam. Then he made those who remain to dominate over the nobles among the people. Jehovah made me have dominion over the mighty. They came from Ephraim to the valley. They were behind the tribe of Benjamin and its people. The commanders came down from Machir. The officers came down from Zebulun. The leaders of Issachar came with Deborah. Issachar came and Barak too, and they followed him into the valley. But the tribe of Reuben was divided; they could not decide to come. Why did they stay behind with the sheep? Did they listen to shepherds calling the flocks? Yes, the tribe of Reuben was divided; they could not decide to come. The tribe of Gad stayed east of the Jordan. The tribe of Dan remained by the ships. The tribe of Asher stayed by the seacoast. They remained by the shore. The people of Zebulun and Naphtali risked their lives on the battlefield. The kings fought at Taanach, by the stream of Megiddo. The kings of Canaan fought, but they took no silver away. As the stars moved across the sky they fought against Sisera. The River Kishon swept them away. That ancient flooding river swept them away. March on! March on and be strong. Then the horses hooves thundered and his mighty steeds stamped the ground. Curse Meroz, says Jehovah's angel: Curse those who live there. They did not come to help Jehovah. They did not come as soldiers to fight for him. Jael, the wife of Heber the Kenite, is the most blessed of women. The most blessed of women who live in tents. Sisera asked for water. She gave him milk. She brought him cream in a beautiful bowl. She took a tent peg in one hand and hammer in the other. She struck Sisera and crushed his skull. Yes, she pierced him through the head. He sank to his knees and fell down at her feet. At her feet he sank. He fell to the ground, dead. Sisera's mother looked thru the window. From behind the lattice she looked. Why is his chariot so late in coming? She asked. Why are his horses so slow to return? The wisest of her ladies answered her, and she told herself over and over, They are finding things to capture and divide. They find a woman or two for every soldier, rich cloth for Sisera, embroidered pieces for the queen. May all your enemies die like that, Jehovah, may your friends shine like the rising sun! There was peace in the land for forty years.

You sing idle songs to the sound of the harp and like David you improvise on musical instruments.