The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't respect the work of the LORD, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
whose arrows are sharp, and all their bows bent. Their horses' hoofs will be like flint, and their wheels like a whirlwind.
Therefore my heart sounds like a harp for Moab, and my inward parts for Kir Heres.
Take a harp; go about the city, you prostitute that has been forgotten. Make sweet melody. Sing many songs, that you may be remembered.
The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.
For the dill are not threshed with a sharp instrument, neither is a cart wheel turned over the cumin; but the dill is beaten out with a stick, and the cumin with a rod.
Every stroke of the rod of punishment, which the LORD will lay on him, will be with the sound of tambourines and harps. He will fight with them in battles, brandishing weapons.
Behold, I have made you into a new sharp threshing instrument with teeth. You will thresh the mountains, and beat them small, and will make the hills like chaff.
and he has made my mouth like a sharp sword; in the shadow of his hand, he has hidden me: and he has made me a polished shaft; in his quiver has he kept me close:
Make sharp the arrows; hold firm the shields: the LORD has stirred up the spirit of the kings of the Medes; because his purpose is against Babylon, to destroy it: for it is the vengeance of the LORD, the vengeance of his temple.
He has torn me in his wrath, and persecuted me. He has gnashed on me with his teeth. My adversary sharpens his eyes on me.
They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
His undersides are like sharp potsherds, leaving a trail in the mud like a threshing sledge.
The men of Ephraim said to him, "Why have you treated us this way, that you didn't call us, when you went to fight with Midian?" They rebuked him sharply.
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.
But in the end she is as bitter as wormwood, and as sharp as a two-edged sword.
A man who gives false testimony against his neighbor is like a club, a sword, or a sharp arrow.
Iron sharpens iron; so a man sharpens his friend's countenance.
If a man doesn't relent, he will sharpen his sword; he has bent and strung his bow.
Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, my exceeding joy. I will praise you on the harp, God, my God.
Your arrows are sharp. The nations fall under you, with arrows in the heart of the king's enemies.
I will incline my ear to a proverb. I will open my riddle on the harp.
Your tongue plots destruction, like a sharp razor, working deceitfully.
My soul is among lions. I lie among those who are set on fire, even the sons of men, whose teeth are spears and arrows, and their tongue a sharp sword.
Wake up, my glory! Wake up, psaltery and harp! I will wake up the dawn.
who sharpen their tongue like a sword, and aim their arrows, deadly words,
I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.
Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.
Sing praises to the LORD with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody.
Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.
Sharp arrows of the mighty, with coals of juniper.
On the willows in its midst, we hung up our harps.
They have sharpened their tongues like a serpent. Viper's poison is under their lips. Selah.
Sing to the LORD with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God,
Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!
He had seven stars in his right hand. Out of his mouth proceeded a sharp two-edged sword. His face was like the sun shining at its brightest.
"To the angel of the assembly in Pergamum write: "He who has the sharp two-edged sword says these things:
Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.
I looked, and behold, a white cloud; and on the cloud one sitting like a son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
Another angel came out from the temple which is in heaven. He also had a sharp sickle.
Another angel came out from the altar, he who has power over fire, and he called with a great voice to him who had the sharp sickle, saying, "Send forth your sharp sickle, and gather the clusters of the vine of the earth, for the earth's grapes are fully ripe!"
I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, and those who overcame the beast, his image, and the number of his name, standing on the sea of glass, having harps of God.
The voice of harpists, minstrels, flute players, and trumpeters will be heard no more at all in you. No craftsman, of whatever craft, will be found any more at all in you. The sound of a mill will be heard no more at all in you.
Out of his mouth proceeds a sharp, double-edged sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with an iron rod. He treads the winepress of the fierceness of the wrath of God, the Almighty.
This testimony is true. For this cause, reprove them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith,
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