Bible Verses About Music

Blow the ram’s horn in Gibeah, the trumpet in Ramah; raise the battle cry in Beth-aven: Lead on, O Benjamin!

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

You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.

I will turn your feasts into mourning and all your songs into lamentation. I will cause everyone to wear sackcloth and every head to be shaved. I will make it like a time of mourning for an only son, and its outcome like a bitter day.

GOD the Lord is my strength; He makes my feet like those of a deer; He makes me walk upon the heights! For the choirmaster. With stringed instruments.

The LORD your God is among you; He is mighty to save. He will rejoice over you with gladness; He will quiet you with His love; He will rejoice over you with singing.”

When Jesus entered the house of the synagogue leader, He saw the flute players and the noisy crowd.

‘We played the flute for you, and you did not dance; we sang a dirge, and you did not mourn.’

And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.

Meanwhile the older son was in the field, and as he approached the house, he heard music and dancing.

About midnight Paul and Silas were praying and singing hymns to God, and the other prisoners were listening to them.

If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal.

Again, if the trumpet sounds a muffled call, who will prepare for battle?

What then shall I do? I will pray with my spirit, but I will also pray with my mind. I will sing with my spirit, but I will also sing with my mind.

Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,

Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.

He says: “I will proclaim Your name to My brothers; I will sing Your praises in the assembly.”

When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.

And they sang a new song: “Worthy are You to take the scroll and open its seals, because You were slain, and by Your blood You purchased for God those from every tribe and tongue and people and nation.

And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps.

And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,

and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

And the sound of harpists and musicians, of flute players and trumpeters, will never ring out in you again. Nor will any craftsmen of any trade be found in you again, nor the sound of a millstone be heard in you again.