40 Bible Verses about instruments

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

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

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

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

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 endureth for ever: that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD;

Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.

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

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

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

I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: to thee will I sing with the harp, O thou 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 sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.

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

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

Moreover, four thousand were porters; and four thousand praised the LORD with the instruments which I made, said David, to praise with them.

And even things without life giving sound, whether pipe or harp, except they give a distinction in the sounds, how shall it be known what is piped or harped?

We hung our harps upon the willows in the midst of it.

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

If a man therefore will cleanse himself from these, he will be a vessel to honor, sanctified and meet for the master's use, and prepared to every good work.

Awake, psaltery and harp: 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 timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.

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

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, Maschil, A Psalm of David. Give ear to my prayer, O God; and hide not thyself from my supplication.

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

To the chief Musician on Neginoth upon Sheminith, A Psalm of David. O LORD, rebuke me not in thy anger, neither chasten me in thy hot displeasure.

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

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm of David. Hear me when I call, O God of my righteousness: thou hast enlarged me when I was in distress; have mercy upon me, and hear my prayer.

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

And I will cause the noise of thy songs to cease; and the sound of thy 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 hinds' feet, and he will make me to 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 to my prayer.

To the chief Musician on Neginoth, A Psalm or Song. God be merciful to us, and bless us; and cause his face to shine upon us. Selah.

The instruments also of the churl are evil: he deviseth wicked devices to destroy the poor with lying words, even when the needy speaketh right.