'Songs' in the Bible
Why did you flee secretly and deceive me, and did not tell me so that I might have sent you away with joy and with songs, with timbrel and with lyre;
He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.
David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals and with trumpets.
And with them were Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those who should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God, and the sons of Jeduthun for the gate.
The Levites were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah who was in charge of the songs of thanksgiving, he and his brothers.
Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites from all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem so that they might celebrate the dedication with gladness, with hymns of thanksgiving and with songs to the accompaniment of cymbals, harps and lyres.
For in the days of David and Asaph, in ancient times, there were leaders of the singers, songs of praise and hymns of thanksgiving to God.
“But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker,Who gives songs in the night,
You are my hiding place; You preserve me from trouble;You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
Fire devoured His young men,And His virgins had no wedding songs.
Your statutes are my songsIn the house of my pilgrimage.
For there our captors demanded of us songs,And our tormentors mirth, saying,“Sing us one of the songs of Zion.”
Like one who takes off a garment on a cold day, or like vinegar on soda,Is he who sings songs to a troubled heart.
Take your harp, walk about the city,O forgotten harlot;Pluck the strings skillfully, sing many songs,That you may be remembered.
From the ends of the earth we hear songs, “Glory to the Righteous One,”But I say, “Woe to me! Woe to me! Alas for me!The treacherous deal treacherously,And the treacherous deal very treacherously.”
You will have songs as in the night when you keep the festival,And gladness of heart as when one marches to the sound of the flute,To go to the mountain of the Lord, to the Rock of Israel.
“The Lord will surely save me;So we will play my songs on stringed instrumentsAll the days of our life at the house of the Lord.”
So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the sound of your harps will be heard no more.
“Take away from Me the noise of your songs;I will not even listen to the sound of your harps.
Who improvise to the sound of the harp,And like David have composed songs for themselves,
The songs of the palace will turn to wailing in that day,” declares the Lord God. “Many will be the corpses; in every place they will cast them forth in silence.”
“Then I will turn your festivals into mourningAnd all your songs into lamentation;And I will bring sackcloth on everyone’s loinsAnd baldness on every head.And I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son,And the end of it will be like a bitter day.