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

⁵ who sing idle songs to the sound of the harp
    and like David improvise on instruments of music,^(A)

³ The songs of the temple^[a] shall become wailings on that day,”
            says the Lord God;
“the dead bodies shall be many,
    cast out in every place. Be silent!”^(A)

¹⁰ I will turn your feasts into mourning
    and all your songs into lamentation;
I will bring sackcloth on all loins
    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.^(A)