40 Bible Verses about instruments

Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and pipes.

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

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

And his brother's name was Jubal: he was the father of all such as handle the harp and pipe.

It came even to pass, as the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD, saying, For he is good; for his mercy endures forever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

Take away from me the noise of your songs; for I will not hear the melody of your harps.

As well the singers as the players on instruments shall be there: all my springs are in you.

He has also prepared for himself the instruments of death; he makes ready his arrows against the persecutors.

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

I will also praise you with the psaltery, even your truth, O my God: unto you will I sing with the harp, O you Holy One of Israel.

The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

With trumpets and the sound of a horn make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

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

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

Moreover four thousand were gatekeepers; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, for praise.

And even things without life which give sound, whether flute or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is played?

We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.

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

If a man therefore purge himself from these, he shall be a vessel unto honor, sanctified, and fit for the master's use, and prepared unto every good work.

Awake, harp and lyre: I myself will awake early.

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 tambourines, and on castanets, and on cymbals.

Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a melodious sound.

[To the Chief Musician on neginoth, a maschil. A Song of David.] Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not yourself from my supplication.

That chant to the sound of the harp, and invent for yourselves instruments of music, like David;

[To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. According to sheminith. A Psalm of David.] O LORD, rebuke me not in your anger, neither chasten me in your hot displeasure.

The LORD was ready to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.

[To the Chief Musician. With stringed instruments. A Psalm of David.] Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: you have delivered me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

Neither yield your members as instruments of unrighteousness unto sin: but yield yourselves unto God, as those that are alive from the dead, and your members as instruments of righteousness unto God.

And I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.

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

The LORD God is my strength, and he will make my feet like deer's feet, and he will make me walk upon my high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.

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

And it came to pass, when the evil spirit from God was upon Saul, that David took a harp, and played with his hand: so Saul was refreshed, and was well, and the evil spirit departed from him.

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

[To the Chief Musician upon neginah, a Psalm of David.] Hear my cry, O God; attend unto my prayer.

[To the Chief Musician on neginoth. A Song or Psalm.] God be merciful unto us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us; Selah.

The schemes also of the schemer are evil: he devises wicked plans to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaks justly.