Bible Verses About Music

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye the name of Jehovah, Praise, ye servants of Jehovah,

Who are standing in the house of Jehovah, In the courts of the house of our God.

Praise ye Jah! for Jehovah is good, Sing praise to His name, for it is pleasant.

By rivers of Babylon--There we did sit, Yea, we wept when we remembered Zion.

On willows in its midst we hung our harps.

For there our captors asked us the words of a song, And our spoilers--joy: `Sing ye to us of a song of Zion.'

How do we sing the song of Jehovah, On the land of a stranger?

If I forget thee, O Jerusalem, my right hand forgetteth!

My tongue doth cleave to my palate, If I do not remember thee, If I do not exalt Jerusalem above my chief joy.

O God, a new song I sing to Thee, On a psaltery of ten strings I sing praise to Thee.

Praise ye Jah! Sing ye to Jehovah a new song, His praise in an assembly of saints.

Israel doth rejoice in his Maker, Sons of Zion do joy in their king.

They praise His name in a dance, With timbrel and harp sing praise to Him.

The exaltation of God is in their throat, And a two-edged sword in their hand.

Praise ye Jah! Praise ye God in His holy place, Praise Him in the expanse of His strength.

Praise Him in His mighty acts, Praise Him according to the abundance of His greatness.

Praise Him with blowing of trumpet, Praise Him with psaltery and harp.

Praise Him with timbrel and dance, Praise Him with stringed instruments and organ.

Praise Him with cymbals of sounding, Praise Him with cymbals of shouting.

All that doth breathe doth praise Jah! Praise ye Jah!

Whoso is taking away a garment in a cold day, Is as vinegar on nitre, And a singer of songs on a sad heart.

I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man--a wife and wives.

And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

And harp, and psaltery, tabret, and pipe, And wine, have been their banquets, And the work of Jehovah they behold not, Yea, the work of His hands they have not seen.