23Take thou away from me the noise of thy songs; for I will not hear the melody of thy viols.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
That chant to the sound of the viol, and invent to themselves instruments of musick, like David;
And I will turn your feasts into mourning, and all your songs into lamentation; and I will bring up sackcloth upon all loins, and baldness upon every head; and I will make it as the mourning of an only son, and the end thereof as a bitter day.
And the songs of the temple shall be howlings in that day, saith the Lord GOD: there shall be many dead bodies in every place; they shall cast them forth with silence.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 21-27)The scope of these verses is to show how little God valued their shows of devotion, nay, how much he detested them, while they went on in their sins. Observe, I. How unpleasing, nay, how displeasing, their hypocritical services were to God. They had their feast-days at Bethel, in imitation of those at Jerusalem, in which they pretended to rejoice before God. They had their solemn assemblies for re…
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