'Songs' in the Bible
Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;
He spoke three thousand proverbs; and his songs were one thousand five.
David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
and with them Heman and Jeduthun [with] trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and [with] instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
For in the days of David and Asaph of old there was a chief of the singers, and songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.
But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
You are my hiding place. You will preserve me from trouble. You will surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.
They also who dwell in faraway places are afraid at your wonders. You call the morning's dawn and the evening with songs of joy.
Let's come before his presence with thanksgiving. Let's extol him with songs!
Your statutes have been my songs, in the house where I live.
For there, those who led us captive asked us for songs. Those who tormented us demanded songs of joy: "Sing us one of the songs of Zion!"
As one who takes away a garment in cold weather, or vinegar on soda, so is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.
Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.
From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard songs. Glory to the righteous! But I said, "I pine away! I pine away! woe is me!" The treacherous have dealt treacherously. Yes, the treacherous have dealt very treacherously.
Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of Yahweh.
I will cause the noise of your songs to cease; and the sound of your harps shall be no more heard.
Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.
I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, and baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, and its end like a bitter day.