40 Bible Verses about instruments

Praise him in the cymbals and dances; praise him upon the strings and pipe.

Praise the LORD with harp; sing psalms unto him with the lute and instrument of ten strings.

Praise him in the sound of the trumpet; praise him upon the lute and harp.

And his brother's name was Jubal; of him came all that exercise themselves on the harp and on the organs.

And the trumpet blowers and the singers so agreed, that it seemed but one voice in praising and thanking the LORD. And as the voice of the trumpets, cymbals and instruments of melody arose, and as they praised the LORD, how that he was good and that his mercy lasteth ever, the house of the LORD was filled with a cloud:

Away with that noise of thy songs, I will not hear thy plays of music:

The singers also and trumpeters shall he rehearse. All my fresh springs shall be in thee.

He hath prepared for him the instruments of death; he ordaineth his arrows against the persecutors.

Praise the LORD upon the harp, sing to the harp with a psalm of thanksgiving.

Therefore will I praise thee, and thy faithfulness, O God, playing on the lute; unto thee will I sing upon the harp, O thou holy one of Israel.

The singers go before, the minstrels follow after; in the midst are the damsels playing with the timbrels.

With trumpets also and shophars: O show yourselves joyful before the LORD the King.

Take the psalm, bring hither the tabret, the merry harp with the lute.

Sing unto the LORD a new song; sing praises lustily unto him, and with a good courage.

Four thousand were porters and four thousand praised the LORD with such instruments as David had made to praise withal.

Moreover when things without life give sound: whether it be a pipe, or a harp - except they make a distinction in the sounds - how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

We hanged our harps upon the salon-trees, in the midst of it.

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

But if a man purge himself from such fellows, he shall be a vessel sanctified unto honour meet for the Lord, and prepared unto all good works.

Awake lute and harp! I myself will awake right early.

And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD with all manner instruments of fir wood - with harps, psalteries, timbrels, fiddles and cymbals.

upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the lute and with a song upon the harp.

{To the Chanter, in Neginoth, an instruction of David} Hear my prayer, O God, and hide not thyself from my petition.

ye that sing to the lute, and in playing of instruments compare yourselves unto David;

{To the Chanter in Neginoth upon Sheminith, a Psalm of David} O LORD, rebuke me not in thine indignation, neither chasten me in thy displeasure.

Deliver us, O LORD, and we will sing praises in thy house, all the days of our life."

{To the Chanter in Neginoth, a Psalm of David} Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness! Thou hast set me at liberty when I was in trouble; have mercy upon me, and hearken unto my prayer.

Neither give ye your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: But give yourselves unto God, as they that are alive from death. And give your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

Thus will I bring the melody of thy songs, and the voice of thy minstrelsy to an end, so that they shall no more be heard.

And so the Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with trumpets.

The LORD God is my strength, he shall make my feet as the feet of harts: and he which giveth the victory, shall bring me to my high places, singing upon my psalms.

And Miriam, a prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women came out after her with timbrels in a dance.

And when the spirit of God came upon Saul, David took a harp and played with his hand, and so Saul was refreshed, and did amend; and the evil spirit departed from him.

But now bring me a minstrel. And as the minstrel played, the hand of the LORD was upon him.

{To the Chanter, upon Neginoth, of David} Hear my crying, O God, give heed unto my prayer.

{To the Chanter, in Neginoth, a Psalm and song} God be merciful unto us, and bless us, and show us the light of his countenance. Selah.

These are the perilous weapons of the covetous, these be his shameful counsels: that he may beguile the poor with deceitful works, yea, even there as he should give sentence with the poor.