Amos 5:23

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Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the melody of your harps.

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Referenced Verses

  • Amos 6:5 : 5 You strum away on your harps like David and fashion instruments for music.
  • Amos 8:3 : 3 In that day, the songs of the temple will turn into wailing, declares the Lord God. Many corpses will lie everywhere; they will be cast out in silence.
  • Amos 8:10 : 10 'I will turn your festivals into mourning and all your songs into lamentation; I will cover everyone's waists with sackcloth and shave every head bald. I will make it like mourning for an only son and its end like a bitter day.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Amos 5:21-22
    2 verses
    81%

    21I hate, I despise your festivals, and I take no pleasure in your solemn assemblies.

    22Even if you bring me burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them; I will not regard your fattened peace offerings.

  • Ezek 26:13
    80%

    13'I will silence the noise of your songs, and the sound of your harps will no longer be heard.'

  • Isa 1:11-15
    5 verses
    72%

    11"What is the multitude of your sacrifices to Me?" says the LORD. "I have had enough of burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed animals; I take no pleasure in the blood of bulls, lambs, or goats.

    12When you come to appear before Me, who has asked this of you, this trampling of My courts?

    13Do not bring any more meaningless offerings; your incense is detestable to Me. New Moons, Sabbaths, and the calling of assemblies—I cannot endure iniquity combined with solemn assembly.

    14Your New Moons and appointed festivals My soul hates. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.

    15When you spread out your hands in prayer, I will hide My eyes from you. Even though you multiply your prayers, I will not listen. Your hands are full of blood.

  • Isa 5:12
    72%

    12They have harps and lyres, tambourines and flutes, and wine at their banquets, but they pay no attention to the deeds of the Lord or consider the work of His hands.

  • Jer 14:12
    71%

    12Even if they fast, I will not listen to their cry; even if they offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, I will not accept them. Instead, I will consume them by sword, famine, and plague.

  • Jer 11:14
    71%

    14As for you, do not pray for this people or lift up a cry or petition for them, for I will not listen to them when they cry out to me because of their disaster.

  • Amos 5:24
    71%

    24But let justice flow like a river, and righteousness like a never-ending stream.

  • Jer 6:19-20
    2 verses
    71%

    19Hear, O earth! I am bringing disaster upon this people, the fruit of their schemes, because they have not listened to My words and have rejected My law.

    20What use is frankincense brought from Sheba, or sweet cane from a distant land? Your burnt offerings are not acceptable, and your sacrifices do not please me.

  • Ps 51:16
    71%

    16Deliver me from bloodguilt, O God, the God of my salvation, and my tongue will sing of your righteousness.

  • Jer 7:16
    70%

    16As for you, do not pray for this people, do not raise a cry or prayer for them, and do not intercede with me, for I will not listen to you.

  • Ps 98:5
    70%

    5Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, with the lyre and the sound of song.

  • Amos 6:5
    70%

    5You strum away on your harps like David and fashion instruments for music.

  • Isa 16:10
    70%

    10Joy and gladness are taken away from the fertile fields. In the vineyards, no songs are sung, no cheers are heard. No one treads out wine in the presses—the cheerful shouting has stopped.

  • Ps 39:10
    70%

    10I am mute; I will not open my mouth because You have done this.

  • Isa 24:8
    70%

    8The joy of tambourines ceases, the noise of revelers stops, and the joyful sound of the harp is silenced.

  • Mic 5:11-14
    4 verses
    70%

    11I will remove sorceries from your hand, and you will have no more soothsayers.

    12I will destroy your carved images and your sacred stones from among you, and you will no longer bow down to the work of your hands.

    13I will uproot your Asherah poles from among you and demolish your cities.

    14In anger and wrath, I will execute vengeance on the nations that have not obeyed.

  • Job 30:31
    69%

    31My harp is turned to mourning and my flute to the sound of weeping.

  • Ps 55:2
    69%

    2Listen to my prayer, O God, and do not ignore my plea for mercy.

  • Ps 92:3
    69%

    3To declare Your lovingkindness in the morning and Your faithfulness by night.

  • Ps 40:6
    69%

    6You, LORD my God, have done many wonderful works, and Your plans are beyond comparison. If I tried to declare and speak of them, they are too numerous to count.

  • Ps 50:8-9
    2 verses
    69%

    8Not for your sacrifices do I rebuke you; your burnt offerings are continually before me.

    9I will not take a bull from your house, nor goats from your pens.

  • Isa 43:23
    69%

    23You have not brought Me sheep for burnt offerings, nor honored Me with your sacrifices. I have not burdened you with grain offerings nor wearied you with demands for incense.

  • Jer 25:10
    69%

    10I will banish from them the sound of joy and gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the bride, the sound of millstones and the light of the lamp.

  • Jer 22:21
    69%

    21I spoke to you in your prosperity, but you said, 'I will not listen.' This has been your way since your youth; you have not obeyed me.

  • Ps 81:2
    68%

    2Sing joyfully to God our strength; shout aloud to the God of Jacob.

  • Judg 5:3
    68%

    3Listen, kings! Pay attention, rulers! I will sing to the Lord; I will make music to the Lord, the God of Israel.

  • Lev 26:30-31
    2 verses
    68%

    30I will destroy your high places, cut down your incense altars, and heap your dead bodies on the lifeless forms of your idols, and my soul will reject you.

    31I will lay your cities in ruins, make your sanctuaries desolate, and I will no longer smell the pleasing aroma of your offerings.

  • Ps 28:3
    68%

    3Do not drag me away with the wicked, with those who do evil, who speak peace to their neighbors but harbor evil in their hearts.

  • Ps 6:8
    68%

    8My eyes grow weak from sorrow; they fail because of all my adversaries.

  • Nah 1:14
    68%

    14The Lord has given a command concerning you, Nineveh: 'Your name will no longer be perpetuated. Out of the house of your gods I will destroy the carved image and the cast idol. I will prepare your grave, for you are vile.'

  • Ezek 33:32
    68%

    32Indeed, to them you are like someone who sings lustful songs with a beautiful voice and plays the instrument well. They listen to your words, but they do not put them into practice.

  • Isa 30:11
    67%

    11'Leave the way, turn aside from the path, and stop confronting us with the Holy One of Israel!'

  • Jer 11:11
    67%

    11Therefore, this is what the LORD says: ‘I am bringing disaster upon them from which they cannot escape. Even though they will cry out to me, I will not listen to them.’

  • Ps 51:11
    67%

    11Hide your face from my sins, and blot out all my iniquities.

  • Jer 44:5
    67%

    5But they did not listen or incline their ears to turn from their wickedness and to stop burning incense to other gods.

  • Job 21:12
    67%

    12They sing to the tambourine and lyre and rejoice to the sound of the flute.

  • Hos 2:17
    67%

    17From there I will give her vineyards back to her and make the Valley of Achor a door of hope. There she will respond as in the days of her youth, as in the day she came up from the land of Egypt.