KJV King James Version
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
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Amos 5:23
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Take away from Me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
WEB World English Bible
Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.
ASV American Standard Version
Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Turn aside from Me the noise of thy songs, Yea, the praise of thy psaltery I hear not.
Surrounding context — Amos 5
20 [Shall] not the day of the LORD [be] darkness, and not light? even very dark, and no brightness in it?
21 I hate, I despise your feast days, and I will not smell in your solemn assemblies.
22 Though ye offer me burnt offerings and your meat offerings, I will not accept [them]: neither will I regard the peace offerings of your fat beasts.
23 Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
24 But let judgment run down as waters, and righteousness as a mighty stream.
25 Have ye offered unto me sacrifices and offerings in the wilderness forty years, O house of Israel?
26 But ye have borne the tabernacle of your Moloch and Chiun your images, the star of your god, which ye made to yourselves.
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Amos 6:5That chant to the sound of the viol, [and] invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;Amos 8:3And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: [there shall be] many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast [them] forth with silence.Amos 8:10And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only [son], and the end thereof as a bitter day.
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