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Want to know what the Bible says about Music? Here are 272 Bible verses about Music from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Psalm 7:1 NIV
Lord my God, I take refuge in you;
    save and deliver me from all who pursue me,
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Psalm 84:2 NIV
My soul yearns, even faints,
    for the courts of the Lord;
my heart and my flesh cry out
    for the living God.
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Psalm 49:1 NIV
Hear this, all you peoples;
    listen, all who live in this world,
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Psalm 47:1 NIV
Clap your hands, all you nations;
    shout to God with cries of joy.
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2 Chronicles 5:12-14 NIV
12 All the Levites who were musicians —Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. 13 The trumpeters and musicians joined in unison to give praise and thanks to the Lord. Accompanied by trumpets, cymbals and other instruments, the singers raised their voices in praise to the Lord and sang:
“He is good;
    his love endures forever.”
Then the temple of the Lord was filled with the cloud, 14 and the priests could not perform their service because of the cloud, for the glory of the Lord filled the temple of God.
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Psalm 6:1 NIV
Lord, do not rebuke me in your anger
    or discipline me in your wrath.
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Psalm 31:1 NIV
In you, Lord, I have taken refuge;
    let me never be put to shame;
    deliver me in your righteousness.
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1 Chronicles 16:23-25 NIV
23 Sing to the Lord, all the earth;
    proclaim his salvation day after day.
24 Declare his glory among the nations,
    his marvelous deeds among all peoples.
25 For great is the Lord and most worthy of praise;
    he is to be feared above all gods.
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1 Chronicles 16:42 NIV
Heman and Jeduthun were responsible for the sounding of the trumpets and cymbals and for the playing of the other instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were stationed at the gate.
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Ezra 2:70 NIV
The priests, the Levites, the musicians, the gatekeepers and the temple servants settled in their own towns, along with some of the other people, and the rest of the Israelites settled in their towns.
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