Amos 6:5
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You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David;

1 Chronicles 15:16
And David spoke to the chiefs of the Levites, to appoint some of their brethren to be singers with musical instruments, to wit, on psalteries, and harps, and cymbals, that the joyful noise might resound on high.

1 Chronicles 23:5
Moreover four thousand were porters: and as many singers singing to the Lord with the instruments, which he had made to sing with.

Isaiah 5:12
The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Ezekiel 26:13
And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy harps shall be heard no more.

Amos 8:3
And he said: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A hook to draw down fruit. And the Lord said to me: The end is come upon my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David;

chant.

Genesis 31:27 Why wouldst thou run away privately, and not acquaint me, that I might have brought thee on the way with joy, and with songs, and with timbrels, and with harps?

Job 21:11,12 Their little ones go out like a flock, and their children dance and play. . . .

Ecclesiastes 2:8 I heaped together for myself silver and gold, and the wealth of kings, and provinces: I made me singing men, and singing women, and the delights of the sons of men, cups and vessels to serve to pour out wine:

Isaiah 5:12 The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

1 Peter 4:3 For the time past is sufficient to have fulfilled the will of the Gentiles, for them who have walked in riotousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings and unlawful worshipping of idols.

Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play on the pipe and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee: and no craftsman of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all in thee: and the sound of the mill shall be heard no more at all in thee:

like.

Amos 5:23 Take away from me the tumult of thy songs: and I will not hear the canticles of thy harp.

Amos 8:3 And he said: What seest thou, Amos? And I said: A hook to draw down fruit. And the Lord said to me: The end is come upon my people Israel: I will not again pass by them any more.

1 Chronicles 23:5 Moreover four thousand were porters: and as many singers singing to the Lord with the instruments, which he had made to sing with.

Context
Woe to those at Ease in Zion
4You that sleep upon beds of ivory, and are wanton on your couches: that eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the herd; 5You that sing to the sound of the psaltery: they have thought themselves to have instruments of music like David;6That drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best ointments: and they are not concerned for the affliction of Joseph.…
Lexicon
You improvise
הַפֹּרְטִ֖ים (hap·pō·rə·ṭîm)
Article | Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 6527: To scatter words, prate

songs
עַל־ (‘al-)
Preposition
Strong's Hebrew 5921: Above, over, upon, against

on the harp
הַנָּ֑בֶל (han·nā·ḇel)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 5035: A skin-bag for, liquids, a vase, a lyre

like David
כְּדָוִ֕יד (kə·ḏā·wîḏ)
Preposition-k | Noun - proper - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1732: David -- perhaps 'beloved one', a son of Jesse

and invent
חָשְׁב֥וּ (ḥā·šə·ḇū)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 2803: To think, account

your own
לָהֶ֖ם (lā·hem)
Preposition-l | Pronoun - third person masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 1992: They

musical
שִֽׁיר׃ (šîr)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7892: A song, singing

instruments.
כְּלֵי־ (kə·lê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's Hebrew 3627: Something prepared, any apparatus


Additional Translations
You improvise songs on the harp like David and invent your own musical instruments.That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David;

that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

who excel in the sound of musical instruments; they have regarded them as abiding, not as fleeting pleasures;

that chant to the sound of the lute, [and] invent them instruments of music, like David;

that sing idle songs to the sound of the viol; that devise for themselves instruments of music, like David;

That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of music, like David;

who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

Who are taking part according to the psaltery, Like David they invented for themselves instruments of music;
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