²³ Take away from me the noise of your songs! I will not listen to the music of your harps.

⁵ Who strum on the strings of a harp; Who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

³ The songs of the temple will be wailings in that day," says the Lord Yahweh. "The dead bodies will be many. In every place they will throw them out with silence.

¹⁰ I will turn your feasts into mourning, And all your songs into lamentation; And I will make you wear sackcloth on all your bodies, And baldness on every head. I will make it like the mourning for an only son, And the end of it like a bitter day.