5 Bible Verses about Sad Music

So my lyre came to be [used] for mourning, and my flute [for the] voice of [those who] weep.

Those sitting at [the] gate talk about me [as] also [the] songs of [the] drunkards.

In that day they will raise a proverb against you, and will wail a bitter wailing, saying, "We are utterly ruined; he exchanges [the] portion of my people. How he removes [it] from me; he apportions our field to an apostate."

{This is} a lament, and they will chant it as a lament; the daughters [of] the nations will chant it as a lament over Egypt, and over all of its hordes they will chant it as a lament," {declares} the Lord Yahweh.

A prayer of Habakkuk the prophet, according to Shigionoth.