Ezekiel 26:13
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So I will silence the sound of your songs, and the music of your lyres will no longer be heard.
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I will remove from the cities of Judah and the streets of Jerusalem the sounds of joy and gladness and the voices of the bride and bridegroom, for the land will become a wasteland.”
“Take up your harp, stroll through the city, O forgotten harlot. Make sweet melody, sing many a song, so you will be remembered.”
For this is what the LORD of Hosts, the God of Israel, says: I am going to remove from this place, before your very eyes and in your days, the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom.
Your pomp has been brought down to Sheol, along with the music of your harps. Maggots are your bed and worms your blanket.
Moreover, I will banish from them the sounds of joy and gladness, the voices of the bride and bridegroom, the sound of the millstones, and the light of the lamp.
At their feasts are the lyre and harp, tambourines and flutes and wine. They disregard the actions of the LORD and fail to see the work of His hands.
O city of commotion, O town of revelry? Your slain did not die by the sword, nor were they killed in battle.
You were in Eden, the garden of God. Every kind of precious stone adorned you: ruby, topaz, and diamond, beryl, onyx, and jasper, sapphire, turquoise, and emerald. Your mountings and settings were crafted in gold, prepared on the day of your creation.
Is this your jubilant city, whose origin is from antiquity, whose feet have taken her to settle far away?
I will put an end to all her exultation: her feasts, New Moons, and Sabbaths— all her appointed feasts.