Songs

As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.

Solomon composed three thousand proverbs, and his songs numbered a thousand and five.

David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for the songs of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were stationed at the gate.

Together with their relatives, who were all trained and skillful in the songs of the LORD, they numbered 288.

The Levites were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah, who, with his associates, led the songs of thanksgiving.

For long ago, in the days of David and Asaph, there were directors for the singers and for the songs of praise and thanksgiving to God.

But no one asks, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives us songs in the night,

You are my hiding place. You protect me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah

Fire consumed His young men, and their maidens were left without wedding songs.

Serve the LORD with gladness; come into His presence with joyful songs.

Your statutes are songs to me in the house of my pilgrimage.

…for there our captors requested a song; our tormentors demanded songs of joy: “Sing us a song of Zion.”

Like one who removes a garment on a cold day or vinegar poured on a wound is one who sings songs to a heavy heart.

This is Solomon’s Song of Songs.

The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.

So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.

Indeed, you are to them like a singer of love songs with a beautiful voice, who skillfully plays an instrument. They hear your words but do not put them into practice.

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.

“In that day,” declares the Lord GOD, “the songs of the temple will turn to wailing. Many will be the corpses, strewn in silence everywhere!”

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.

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.