Bible Verses About Music

Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Name of the Lord: ye seruants of the Lord, praise him.

Ye that stande in the House of the Lord, and in the courtes of the House of our God,

Praise ye the Lord: for the Lord is good: sing praises vnto his Name: for it is a comely thing.

By the riuers of Babel we sate, and there wee wept, when we remembred Zion.

Wee hanged our harpes vpon the willowes in the middes thereof.

Then they that ledde vs captiues, required of vs songs and mirth, when wee had hanged vp our harpes, saying, Sing vs one of the songs of Zion.

Howe shall we sing, said we, a song of the Lord in a strange land?

If I forget thee, O Ierusalem, let my right hand forget to play.

If I do not remember thee, let my tongue cleaue to the roofe of my mouth: yea, if I preferre not Ierusalem to my chiefe ioy.

I wil sing a new song vnto thee, O God, and sing vnto thee vpon a viole, and an instrument of ten strings.

Praise ye the Lord. Sing ye vnto the Lord a newe song: let his prayse be heard in the Congregation of Saints.

Let Israel reioyce in him that made him, and let ye children of Zion reioyce in their King.

Let them prayse his Name with the flute: let them sing prayses vnto him with the timbrell and harpe.

Let the high Actes of God bee in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hands,

Praise ye the Lord. Praise ye God in his Sanctuarie: prayse ye him in the firmament of his power.

Prayse ye him in his mightie Actes: prayse ye him according to his excellent greatnesse.

Prayse ye him in the sounde of the trumpet: prayse yee him vpon the viole and the harpe.

Prayse ye him with timbrell and flute: praise ye him with virginales and organs.

Prayse ye him with sounding cymbales: prayse ye him with high sounding cymbales.

Let euery thing that hath breath prayse the Lord. Prayse ye the Lord.

Hee that taketh away the garment in the colde season, is like vineger powred vpon nitre, or like him that singeth songs to an heauy heart.

I haue gathered vnto me also siluer and gold, and the chiefe treasures of Kings and prouinces: I haue prouided me men singers and women singers, and the delites of the sonnes of men, as a woman taken captiue, and women taken captiues.

And whatsoeuer mine eyes desired, I withheld it not from them: I withdrew not mine heart from any ioy: for mine heart reioyced in al my labour: and this was my portion of all my trauaile.

Then I looked on all my workes that mine hands had wrought, and on the trauaile that I had laboured to doe: and beholde, all is vanitie and vexation of the spirit: and there is no profite vnder the sunne.

And the harpe and viole, timbrel, and pipe, and wine are in their feastes: but they regard not the worke of the Lord, neither consider the worke of his handes.