²³ Take away from Me the noise of your songs,
For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments.

^5 (A)Who sing idly to the sound of stringed instruments,
And invent for yourselves ^(B)musical instruments ^(C)like David;

³ And ^(A)the songs of the temple
Shall be wailing in that day,”
Says the Lord God—
“Many dead bodies everywhere,
^(B)They shall be thrown out in silence.”

¹⁰ I will turn your feasts into ^(A)mourning,
^(B)And all your songs into lamentation;
^(C)I will bring sackcloth on every waist,
And baldness on every head;
I will make it like mourning for an only son,
And its end like a bitter day.