# New Worship Leader Version (NWLV) - And Abraham looked up and saw three men standing nearby. When he saw them, he ran from the entrance of his tent to meet them and sang a song to the ground. {Genesis 18.2 (NWLV)} - Now the two angels arrived at Sodom in the evening, and Lot was sitting in the gateway of the city. When Lot saw them, he got up to meet them, sang a song with these lyrics: “My lords, please turn aside into the house of your servant; wash your feet and spend the night. Then you can rise early and go on your way.” {Genesis 19.1-2a (NWLV)} - “Stay here with the donkey,” Abraham told his servants. “The boy and I will go over there to sing a song, and then we will return to you.” {Genesis 22.5 (NWLV)} - Then Abraham rose and sang a song before the people of the land, the Hittites. {Genesis 23.7 (NWLV)} - Again Abraham while facedown before the people of the land sang a song to Ephron in their presence,. The song lyrics included these words: “If you will please listen to me, I will pay you the price of the field. Accept it from me, so that I may bury my dead there.” {Genesis 23.12-13 (NWLV)} - Then the man bowed down and sang a song to the LORD ... {Genesis 24.26 (NWLV)} - Then I bowed down and sang a song to the LORD; and I blessed the LORD, the God of my master Abraham, who led me on the right road to take the granddaughter of my master’s brother for his son. {Genesis 24.48 (NWLV)} - When Abraham’s servant heard their words, he sang a song to the ground before the LORD. {Genesis 24.52 (NWLV)} - May peoples serve you and nations worship you. May you be the master of your brothers, and may the sons of your mother worship you. May those who curse you be cursed, and those who bless you be blessed.” {Genesis 27.29 (NWLV)} - But Jacob himself went on ahead and sang a song to the ground seven times as he approached his brother. {Genesis 33.3 (NWLV)} - Then the maidservants and their children approached and sang a song. Leah and her children also approached and sang a song, and then Joseph and Rachel approached and sang a song. (Note to worship leaders: This scene should be acted out. Use scenes from the Sound of Music as a guide.) {Genesis 33.6-7 (NWLV)} - We were binding sheaves of grain in the field, and suddenly my sheaf rose and stood upright, while your sheaves gathered around and sang a song to mine.” {Genesis 37.7 (NWLV)} - Then Joseph had another dream and told it to his brothers. “Look,” he said, “I had another dream, and this time the sun and moon and eleven stars were singing songs to me.” He told his father and brothers, but his father rebuked him and said, “What is this dream that you have had? Will your mother and brothers and I actually come and sing a song to the ground before you?” {Genesis 37.9-10 (NWLV)} - Now Joseph was the ruler of the land; he was the one who sold grain to all its people. So when his brothers arrived, they sang a song before him with their faces to the ground. {Genesis 42.6 (NWLV)} - When Joseph came home, they presented him with the gifts they had brought, and they bowed to the ground before him. {Genesis 43.26 (NWLV)} - “Your servant our father is well,” they answered. “He is still alive.” And they sang a song to honor him. {Genesis 43.28 (NWLV)} - “Swear to me,” Jacob said. So Joseph swore to him, and Israel sang a song in worship at the head of his bed. {Genesis 47.31 (NWLV)} - Then Joseph removed his sons from his father’s knees and sang a song facedown. {Genesis 48.12 (NWLV)} - Judah, your brothers shall praise you. Your hand shall be on the necks of your enemies; your father’s sons shall sing songs to you. {Genesis 49.8 (NWLV)} - ... and they believed. And when they heard that the LORD had attended to the Israelites and had seen their affliction, they bowed down and sang a song. {Exodus 4.31 (NWLV)} - And all these officials of yours will come and sing a song before me, singing, ‘Go, you and all the people who follow you!’ After that, I will depart.” {Exodus 11.8 (NWLV)} - - ... you are to reply, ‘It is the Passover sacrifice to the LORD, who passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when He struck down the Egyptians and spared our homes.’ ” Then the people bowed down and sang a song. {Exodus 12.27 (NWLV)} - So Moses went out to meet his father-in-law and sang him a song and kissed him. They greeted each other and went into the tent. {Exodus 18.7 (NWLV)} - You shall not bow down to them or sing them a song; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me ... {Exodus 20.5 (NWLV)} - You must not sing a song to their gods or serve them or follow their practices. Instead, you are to demolish them and smash their sacred stones to pieces. {Exodus 23.24 (NWLV)} - Then the LORD said to Moses, “Come up to the LORD—you and Aaron, Nadab and Abihu, and seventy of Israel’s elders—and you are to sing Me a song from a distance. {Exodus 24.1 (NWLV)} - How quickly they have turned aside from the way that I commanded them! They have made for themselves a molten calf and have sang a song to it. They have sacrificed to it and said, ‘These, O Israel, are your gods, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt.’ ” {Exodus 32.8 (NWLV)} - When all the people saw the pillar of cloud standing at the entrance to the tent, they would stand up and sing songs, each one at the entrance to his own tent. {Exodus 33.10 (NWLV)} - Moses immediately bowed down to the ground and sang a song. {Exodus 34.8 (NWLV)} - For you must not sing songs to any other god, for the LORD, whose name is Jealous, is a jealous God. {Exodus 34.14 (NWLV)} - “You must not make idols for yourselves or set up a carved image or sacred pillar; you must not place a sculpted stone in your land to sing songs to it. For I am the LORD your God." {Leviticus 26.1 (NWLV)} - Then the LORD opened Balaam’s eyes, and he saw the angel of the LORD standing in the road with a drawn sword in his hand. And Balaam sang a song and fell facedown. {Numbers 22.31 (NWLV)} - While Israel was staying in Shittim, the men began to indulge in sexual immorality with the daughters of Moab, who also invited them to the sacrifices for their gods. And the people ate and sang songs to these gods. {Numbers 25.1-2 (NWLV)} - When you look to the heavens and see the sun and moon and stars — all the host of heaven — do not be enticed to bow down and sing songs to what the LORD your God has apportioned to all the nations under heaven. {Deuteronomy 4.19 (NWLV)} - You shall not make for yourself an idol in the form of anything in the heavens above, on the earth below, or in the waters beneath. You shall not bow down to them or sing songs to them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on their children to the third and fourth generations of those who hate Me, but showing loving devotion to a thousand generations of those who love Me and keep My commandments. {Deuteronomy 5.8-10 (NWLV)} - If you ever forget the LORD your God and go after other gods to sing songs to them and bow down to them, I testify against you today that you will surely perish. Like the nations that the LORD has destroyed before you, so you will perish if you do not obey the LORD your God. {Deuteronomy 8.19-20 (NWLV)} - But be careful that you are not enticed to turn aside to sing songs and bow down to other gods, or the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you. He will shut the heavens so that there will be no rain, nor will the land yield its produce, and you will soon perish from the good land that the LORD is giving you. {Deuteronomy 11.16-17 (NWLV)} - If a man or woman among you in one of the towns that the LORD your God gives you is found doing evil in the sight of the LORD your God by transgressing His covenant and going to sing songs to other gods, bowing down to them or to the sun or moon or any of the host of heaven — which I have forbidden — and if it is reported and you hear about it, you must investigate it thoroughly. {Deuteronomy 17.2-4a (NWLV)} - Then you are to place the basket before the LORD your God and sing songs before Him. {Deuteronomy 26.10b (NWLV)} - They went and served other gods, and they sang songs to the gods they had not known — gods that the LORD had not given to them. {Deuteronomy 29.26 (NWLV)} - But if your heart turns away and you do not listen, but are drawn away to bow down to other gods and sing songs to them, I declare to you today that you will surely perish; you shall not prolong your days in the land that you are crossing the Jordan to possess. {Deuteronomy 30.17-18 (NWLV)} - “Neither,” He replied. “I have now come as Commander of the LORD’s army.” Then Joshua fell facedown and sang a song and asked Him, “What does my Lord have to say to His servant?” {Joshua 5.14 (NWLV)} - So you are not to associate with these nations that remain among you. You must not call on the names of their gods or swear by them, and you must not serve them or bow down to them. {Joshua 23.7 (NWLV)} - If you transgress the covenant of the LORD your God, which He commanded you, and go and serve other gods and sing songs to them, then the anger of the LORD will burn against you, and you will quickly perish from this good land He has given you.” {Joshua 23.16 (NWLV)} - Thus they forsook the LORD, the God of their fathers, who had brought them out of the land of Egypt, and they followed after various gods of the peoples around them. They sang songs to them and provoked the LORD to anger, for they forsook Him and served Baal and the Ashtoreths. {Judges 2.12 (NWLV)} - Israel, however, did not listen to their judges. Instead, they prostituted themselves with other gods and sang songs to them. They quickly turned from the way of their fathers, who had walked in obedience to the LORD’s commandments; they did not do as their fathers had done. {Judges 2.17 (NWLV)} - But when the judge died, the Israelites became even more corrupt than their fathers, going after other gods to serve them and sing songs to them. They would not give up their evil practices and stubborn ways. {Judges 2.19 (NWLV)} - When Gideon heard the dream and its interpretation, he bowed and sang a song. He returned to the camp of Israel and said, “Get up, for the LORD has delivered the camp of Midian into your hand.” {Judges 7.15 (NWLV)} - At this, she fell on her face, singing a song low to the ground, and said to him, “Why have I found such favor in your eyes that you should take notice of me, even though I am a foreigner?” {Ruth 2.10 (NWLV)} - Year after year Elkanah would go up from his city to sing songs and sacrifice to the LORD of Hosts at Shiloh, where Eli’s two sons, Hophni and Phinehas, were priests to the LORD. {1 Samuel 1.3 (NWLV)} - The next morning Elkanah and Hannah got up early to sing songs before the LORD, and then returned home to Ramah. {1 Samuel 1.19 (NWLV)} - I now dedicate the boy to the LORD. For as long as he lives, he is dedicated to the LORD.” So they sang songs to the LORD there. {1 Samuel 1.28 (NWLV)} - And everyone left in your house will come and sing songs to him for a piece of silver or a morsel of bread, pleading, “Please appoint me to some priestly office so that I can eat a piece of bread.” {1 Samuel 2.36 (NWLV)} - Now therefore, please forgive my sin and return with me so I can sing songs to the LORD. {1 Samuel 15.25 (NWLV)} - “I have sinned,” Saul replied. “Please honor me now before the elders of my people and before Israel. Come back with me, so that I may sing songs to the LORD your God.” So Samuel went back with Saul, and Saul sang to the LORD. {1 Samuel 15.30-31 (NWLV)} - When the young man had gone, David got up from the south side of the stone, fell facedown, and sang three songs. Then he and Jonathan kissed each other and wept together—though David wept more. {1 Samuel 20.41 (NWLV)} - After that, David got up, went out of the cave, and called out to Saul, “My lord the king!” When Saul looked behind him, David sang a song facedown in reverence and said to Saul, “Why do you listen to the words of men who say, ‘Look, David intends to harm you’? {1 Samuel 24.8-9 (NWLV)} - When Abigail saw David, she quickly got off the donkey, fell facedown, and sang a song before him. {1 Samuel 25.23 (NWLV)} - She arose, then sang a song facedown and said, “Here is your maidservant, ready to serve and to wash the feet of my lord’s servants.” {1 Samuel 25.41 (NWLV)} - “What does he look like?” asked Saul. “An old man is coming up,” she replied. “And he is wearing a robe.” So Saul knew that it was Samuel, and he bowed facedown in reverence. {1 Samuel 28.14 (NWLV)} - After the death of Saul, David returned from the slaughter of the Amalekites and stayed in Ziklag two days. On the third day a man with torn clothes and dust on his head arrived from Saul’s camp. When he came to David, he sang a song to the ground to pay him homage. {2 Samuel 1.2 (NWLV)} - And when Mephibosheth son of Jonathan, the son of Saul, came to David, he sang a song facedown in reverence. Then David said, “Mephibosheth!” “I am your servant,” he replied. {2 Samuel 9.6 (NWLV)} - Mephibosheth sang a song and said, “What is your servant, that you should show regard for a dead dog like me?” {2 Samuel 9.8 (NWLV)} - Then David got up from the ground, washed and anointed himself, changed his clothes, and went into the house of the LORD and sang a song. Then he went to his own house, and at his request they set food before him, and he ate. {2 Samuel 12.20 (NWLV)} - When the woman from Tekoa went to the king, she sang a song in homage and said, “Help me, O king!” {2 Samuel 14.4 (NWLV)} - Joab sang a song in homage and blessed the king. “Today,” said Joab, “your servant knows that he has found favor with you, my lord the king, because the king has granted his request.” {2 Samuel 14.22 (NWLV)} - So Joab went and told the king, and David summoned Absalom, who came to him and sang a song facedown before him. Then the king kissed Absalom. {2 Samuel 14.33 (NWLV)} - Also, when anyone approached to sing a song to him, Absalom would reach out his hand, take hold of him, and kiss him. {2 Samuel 15.5 (NWLV)} - When David came to the summit, where he used to sing songs to God, Hushai the Archite was there to meet him with his robe torn and dust on his head. {2 Samuel 15.32 (NWLV)} - So the king said to Ziba, “All that belongs to Mephibosheth is now yours!” “I humbly sing before you,” said Ziba. “May I find favor in your eyes, my lord the king!” {2 Samuel 16.4 (NWLV)} - So Joab said to a Cushite, “Go, tell the king what you have seen.” The Cushite sang to Joab and took off running. {2 Samuel 18.21 (NWLV)} - Then Ahimaaz called out to the king, “All is well!” And he sang facedown before the king. He continued, “Blessed be the LORD your God! He has delivered up the men who raised their hands against my lord the king.” {2 Samuel 18.28 (NWLV)} - When Araunah looked out and saw the king and his servants coming toward him, he went out and sang facedown before the king. {2 Samuel 24.20 (NWLV)} - And Bathsheba sang a song in homage to the king, who asked, “What is your desire?” {1 Kings 1.16 (NWLV)} - So the king was told, “Nathan the prophet is here.” And Nathan went in and sang facedown before the king. {1 Kings 1.23 (NWLV)} - Bathsheba sang facedown in homage to the king and said, “May my lord King David live forever!” {1 Kings 1.31 (NWLV)} - The king’s servants have also gone to congratulate our lord King David, saying, ‘May your God make the name of Solomon more famous than your own name, and may He make his throne greater than your throne.’ And the king has sang a song on his bed {1 Kings 1.47 (NWLV)} - So King Solomon summoned Adonijah down from the altar, and he came and bowed down before King Solomon, who said to him, “Go to your home.” {1 Kings 1.53 (NWLV)} - So Bathsheba went to King Solomon to speak to him for Adonijah. The king stood up to greet her, sang a song to her, and sat down on his throne. Then the king had a throne brought for his mother, who sat down at his right hand. {1 Kings 2.19 (NWLV)} - But if indeed you or your sons turn away from following Me and do not keep the commandments and statutes I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and sing songs to other gods, then I will cut off Israel from the land that I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. Then Israel will become an object of scorn and ridicule among all peoples. {1 Kings 9.6-7 (NWLV)} - And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD their God who brought their fathers out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, singing songs to them and serving them—because of this, the LORD has brought all this disaster upon them.’ ” {1 Kings 9.9 (NWLV)} - For they have forsaken Me to sing songs to Ashtoreth the goddess of the Sidonians, Chemosh the god of the Moabites, and Milcom the god of the Ammonites. They have not walked in My ways, nor done what is right in My eyes, nor kept My statutes and judgments, as Solomon’s father David did. {1 Kings 11.33 (NWLV)} - And as if it were not enough for him to walk in the sins of Jeroboam son of Nebat, he even married Jezebel the daughter of Ethbaal king of the Sidonians, and he then proceeded to serve and sing songs to Baal. {1 Kings 16.31 (NWLV)} - Ahaziah served and sang songs to Baal, provoking the LORD, the God of Israel, to anger, just as his father had done. {1 Kings 22.53 (NWLV)} - When the sons of the prophets who were facing him from Jericho saw what had happened, they said, “The spirit of Elijah rests on Elisha.” And they went to meet him and sang songs to the ground before him. {2 Kings 2.15 (NWLV)} - She came in, fell at his feet, and sang songs to the ground. Then she picked up her son and went out. {2 Kings 4.37 (NWLV)} - Yet may the LORD forgive your servant this one thing: When my master goes into the temple of Rimmon to sing songs there, and he leans on my arm, and I sing songs in the temple of Rimmon, may the LORD forgive your servant in this matter when I sing songs in the temple of Rimmon.” {2 Kings 5.18 (NWLV)} - They abandoned all the commandments of the LORD their God and made for themselves two cast idols of calves and an Asherah pole. They sang songs to all the host of heaven and served Baal. {2 Kings 17.16 (NWLV)} - For the LORD had made a covenant with the Israelites and commanded them, “Do not sing songs to other gods or bow down to them; do not serve them or sacrifice to them. Instead, sing songs to the LORD, who brought you out of the land of Egypt with great power and an outstretched arm. You are to sing to Him and offer sacrifices to Him. {2 Kings 17.35-36 (NWLV)} - But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem: ‘You must sing songs before this altar in Jerusalem’? {2 Kings 18.22 (NWLV)} - One day, while he was singing songs in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place. {2 Kings 19.37 (NWLV)} - For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had destroyed, and he raised up altars for Baal. He made an Asherah pole, as King Ahab of Israel had done, and he sang songs to and served all the host of heaven. {2 Kings 21.3 (NWLV)} - Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; bring an offering and come before Him. Sing songs to the LORD in the splendor of His holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth. {1 Chronicles 16.29-30a (NWLV)} - David came to Ornan, and when Ornan looked out and saw David, he left the threshing floor and sang facedown before David. {1 Chronicles 21.21 (NWLV)} - Then David said to the whole assembly, “Blessed be the LORD your God.” So the whole assembly blessed the LORD, the God of their fathers. They sang songs and worshiped the LORD and the king. {1 Chronicles 29.20 (NWLV)} - When all the Israelites saw the fire coming down and the glory of the LORD above the temple, they bowed down on the pavement and with their faces to the ground, they sang songs to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” {2 Chronicles 7.3 (NWLV)} - But if you turn away and forsake the statutes and commandments I have set before you, and if you go off to serve and sing songs to other gods, then I will uproot Israel from the soil I have given them, and I will banish from My presence this temple I have sanctified for My Name. I will make it an object of scorn and ridicule among all the peoples. {2 Chronicles 7.19-20 (NWLV)} - And when this temple has become a heap of rubble,b all who pass by it will be appalled and say, ‘Why has the LORD done such a thing to this land and to this temple?’ And others will answer, ‘Because they have forsaken the LORD, the God of their fathers, who brought them out of the land of Egypt, and have embraced other gods, sing songs to them and serving them — because of this, He has brought all this disaster upon them.’ ” {2 Chronicles 7.21-22 (NWLV)} - Then Jehoshaphat performed music facedown, and all the people of Judah and Jerusalem fell down before the LORD to sing songs to Him. {2 Chronicles 20.18 (NWLV)} - After the death of Jehoiada, however, the officials of Judah came and played music and sang songs to the king, and he listened to them.They abandoned the house of the LORD, the God of their fathers, and served the Asherah poles and idols. So wrath came upon Judah and Jerusalem for this guilt of theirs. {2 Chronicles 24.17-18 (NWLV)} - When Amaziah returned from the slaughter of the Edomites, he brought back the gods of the Seirites, set them up as his own gods, played music and sang songs before them, and burned sacrifices to them. {2 Chronicles 25.14 (NWLV)} - The whole assembly was worshiping, the singers were singing, and the trumpeters were playing. All this continued until the burnt offering was completed. When the offerings were completed, the king and all those present with him bowed down, playing instruments and singing a song. Then King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to sing praises to the LORD in the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed their heads while performing music. {2 Chronicles 29.28-30 (NWLV)} - Did not Hezekiah himself remove His high places and His altars and say to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must play music and sing before one altar, and on it you shall burn sacrifices’? {2 Chronicles 32.12 (NWLV)} - For he rebuilt the high places that his father Hezekiah had torn down, and he raised up altars for the Baals and made Asherah poles. And he played music and sang songs and served all the host of heaven. {2 Chronicles 33.3 (NWLV)} - Then Ezra blessed the LORD, the great God, and with their hands uplifted, all the people said, “Amen, Amen!” Then they bowed down and played music and sang songs to the LORD with their faces to the ground. {Nehemiah 8.6 (NWLV)} - While they stood in their places, they read from the Book of the Law of the LORD their God for a quarter of the day, and they spent another quarter of the day in confession and playing music and singing songs to the LORD their God. {Nehemiah 9.3 (NWLV)} - You alone are the LORD. You created the heavens, the highest heavens with all their host, the earth and all that is on it, the seas and all that is in them. You give life to all things, and the host of heaven plays music and sings songs to You. {Nehemiah 9.6 (NWLV)} - All the royal servants at the king’s gate played music, sang songs and paid homage to Haman, because the king had commanded that this be done for him. But Mordecai would not play music, sing songs or pay homage. {Esther 3.2 (NWLV)} - When Haman saw that Mordecai would not play music or sing songs to him, he was filled with rage. {Esther 3.5 (NWLV)} - Then Job stood up, tore his robe, and shaved his head. He fell to the ground and worshiped, saying: “Naked I came from my mother’s womb, and naked I will return. The LORD gave, and the LORD has taken away. Blessed be the name of the LORD.” {Job 1.20-21 (NWLV)} - But I will enter Your house by the abundance of Your loving devotion; in reverence I will play music and sing songs toward Your holy temple. {Psalm 5.7 (NWLV)} - All the ends of the earth will remember and turn to the LORD. All the families of the nations will play music and sing songs before Him. {Psalm 22.27 (NWLV)} - All the rich of the earth will feast play music and sing songs; all who go down to the dust will kneel before Him— even those unable to preserve their lives. {Psalm 22.29 (NWLV)} - Ascribe to the LORD the glory due His name; perform music with singing to the LORD in the splendor of His holiness. {Psalm 29.2 (NWLV)} - Listen, O daughter! Consider and incline your ear: Forget your people and your father’s house, and the king will desire your beauty; play music and sing songs to him, for he is your lord. {Psalm 45.10 (NWLV)} - For You do not delight in music, or I would sing; You take no pleasure in rock concerts. The worship of God is a broken spirit; a broken and a contrite heart, O God, You will not despise. {Psalm 51.16-17 (NWLV)} - All the earth worships You; they sing praise to You; they sing praise to Your name.” {Psalm 66.4 (NWLV)} - May he rule from sea to sea, and from the Euphrates to the ends of the earth. May the nomads perform music and sing songs before him, and his enemies lick the dust. May the kings of Tarshish and distant shores bring tribute; may the kings of Sheba and Seba offer gifts. May all kings worship to him and all nations serve him. {Psalm 72.8-11 (NWLV)} - There must be no strange god among you, nor shall you perform music and sing songs to a foreign god. {Psalm 81.9 (NWLV)} - All the nations You have made will come and perform music and sing songs before You, O Lord, and they will glorify Your name. {Psalm 86.9 (NWLV)} - O come, let us perform music and sing songs; let us kneel before the LORD our Maker. {Psalm 95.6 (NWLV)} - Perform music and sing songs to the LORD in the splendor of His holiness; tremble before Him, all the earth. {Psalm 96.9 (NWLV)} - All worshipers of images are put to shame — those who boast in idols. Perform music and sing songs to Him, all you gods! {Psalm 97.7 (NWLV)} - Exalt the LORD our God, and perform music and sing songs at His footstool; He is holy! {Psalm 99.5 (NWLV)} - Exalt the LORD our God and perform music and sing songs at His holy mountain, for the LORD our God is holy. {Psalm 99.9 (NWLV)} - At Horeb they made a calf and performed music and sang songs to a molten image. They exchanged their Glory for the image of a grass-eating ox. {Psalm 106.19-20 (NWLV)} - Let us go to His dwelling place; let us perform music and sing songs at His footstool. {Psalm 132.7 (NWLV)} - I perform music and sing songs toward Your holy temple and give thanks to Your name for Your loving devotion and Your faithfulness; You have exalted Your name and Your word above all else. {Psalm 138.2 (NWLV)} - Their land is full of idols; they perform music and sing songs to the work of their hands, to what their fingers have made. {Isaiah 2.8 (NWLV)} - In that day men will cast away to the moles and bats their idols of silver and gold — the idols they made to perform music. {Isaiah 2.20 (NWLV)} - And in that day a great ram’s horn will sound, and those who were perishing in Assyria will come forth with those who were exiles in Egypt. And they will perform music and sing songs to the LORD on the holy mountain in Jerusalem. {Isaiah 27.13 (NWLV)} - But if you say to me, ‘We trust in the LORD our God,’ is He not the One whose high places and altars Hezekiah has removed, saying to Judah and Jerusalem, ‘You must perform music and sing songs before this altar’? {Isaiah 36.7 (NWLV)} - One day, while he was singing songs in the temple of his god Nisroch, his sons Adrammelech and Sharezer put him to the sword and escaped to the land of Ararat. And his son Esar-haddon reigned in his place. {Isaiah 37.38 (NWLV)} - It serves as fuel for man. He takes some of it to warm himself, and he kindles a fire and bakes his bread; he even fashions it into a god and performs music and sings sings it; he makes an idol and worships it. He burns half of it in the fire, and he roasts meat on that half. He eats the roast and is satisfied. Indeed, he warms himself and says, “Ah! I am warm; I see the fire.” From the rest he makes a god, his graven image. He worships it with music and songs; he prays to it and says, “Save me, for you are my god.” {Isaiah 44.15-17 (NWLV)} - This is what the LORD says: “The products of Egypt and the merchandise of Cush, along with the Sabeans, men of stature, will come over to you and will be yours; they will trudge behind you; they will come over in chains and worship you with music and songs. They will confess to you: ‘God is indeed with you, and there is no other; there is no other God.’ ” {Isaiah 45.14 (NWLV)} - They pour out their bags of gold and weigh out silver on scales; they hire a goldsmith to fashion it into a god, so they can worship it with music and singing. {Isaiah 46.6 (NWLV)} - Thus says the LORD, the Redeemer and Holy One of Israel, to Him who was despised and abhorred by the nation, to the Servant of rulers: “Kings will see You and rise, and princes will worship you with music and songs, because of the LORD, who is faithful, the Holy One of Israel, who has chosen You.” {Isaiah 49.7 (NWLV)} - Kings will be your foster fathers, and their queens your nursing mothers. They will worship you with music and songs facedown licking the dust at your feet. Then you will know that I am the LORD; those who hope in Me will never be put to shame.” {Isaiah 49.23 (NWLV)} - I will place it in the hands of your tormentors, who told you: ‘Perform music and sing songs, so we can walk over you,’ so that you made your back like the ground, like a street to be traversed.” {Isaiah 51.23 (BSB)} - The sons of your oppressors will come and host a rock concert for you; all who reviled you will fall facedown at your feet performing music and singing songs. They will call you the City of the LORD, Zion of the Holy One of Israel. {Isaiah 60.14 (NWLV)} - From one New Moon to another and from one Sabbath to another, all mankind will come to perform music and sing songs before Me,” says the LORD. {Isaiah 66.23 (NWLV)} - I will pronounce My judgments against them for all their wickedness, because they have forsaken Me to burn incense to other gods and to bow down while performing music and singing songs to the works of their own hands. {Jeremiah 1.16 (NWLV)} - This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD, saying, “Stand in the gate of the house of the LORD and proclaim this message: Hear the word of the LORD, all you people of Judah who enter through these gates to perform music and sing songs to the LORD. {Jeremiah 7.1-2 (NWLV)} - They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and performed music. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground. {Jeremiah 8.2 (NWLV)} - These evil people, who refuse to listen to My words, who follow the stubbornness of their own hearts, and who go after other gods to serve and perform music to them, they will be like this loincloth— of no use at all. {Jeremiah 13.10 (NWLV)} - Then you are to answer them: ‘It is because your fathers have forsaken Me, declares the LORD, and followed other gods, and served and performed music for them. They abandoned Me and did not keep My instruction. {Jeremiah 16.11 (NWLV)} - Then people will reply, ‘Because they have forsaken the covenant of the LORD their God and have performed music and sung to other gods.’ ” {Jeremiah 22.9 (NWLV)} - Do not follow other gods to serve then and perform music for them them, and do not provoke Me to anger by playing musical instruments with your hands. Then I will do you no harm.’ {Jeremiah 25.6 (NWLV)} - “This is what the LORD says: Stand in the courtyard of the house of the LORD and speak all the words I have commanded you to speak to all the cities of Judah who come to the rock concerts there. Do not omit a word. {Jeremiah 26.2 (NWLV)} - So He brought me to the inner court of the house of the LORD, and there at the entrance to the temple of the LORD, between the portico and the altar, were about twenty-five men with their backs to the temple of the LORD and their faces toward the east; and they were bowing to the east singing songs to the sun. {Ezekiel 8.16 (NWLV)} - The prince is to enter from the outside through the portico of the gateway and stand by the gatepost, while the priests sacrifice his burnt offerings and peace offerings. He is to bow and sing songs at the threshold of the gate and then depart, but the gate must not be shut until evening. On the Sabbaths and New Moons the people of the land are also to bow and perform a rock concert before the LORD at the entrance to that gateway. {Ezekiel 46.2-3 (NWLV)} - When the people of the land come before the LORD at the appointed feasts, whoever enters by the north gate to sing songs must go out by the south gate, and whoever enters by the south gate must go out by the north gate. No one is to return through the gate by which he entered, but each must go out by the opposite gate. {Ezekiel 46.9 (NWLV)} - I will also cut off the carved images and sacred pillars from among you, so that you will no longer perform music to the work of your own hands. {Micah 5.13 (NWLV)} - “I will stretch out My hand against Judah and against all who dwell in Jerusalem. I will cut off from this place every remnant of Baal, the names of the idolatrous and pagan priests— those who bow on the rooftops to sing songs to the host of heaven, those who perform music and swear by the LORD but also swear by Milcom, and those who turn back from following the LORD, neither seeking the LORD nor inquiring of Him.” {Zephaniah 1.4-6 (NWLV)} - The LORD will be terrifying to them when He starves all the gods of the earth. Then the nations of every shore will bow and perform rock concerts to Him, each in its own place. {Zephaniah 2.11 (NWLV)} - Then all the survivors from the nations that came against Jerusalem will go up year after year to sing songs to the King, the LORD of Hosts, and to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles. And should any of the families of the earth not go up to Jerusalem to sing songs to the King, the LORD of Hosts, then the rain will not fall on them. {Zechariah 14.16-17 (NWLV)} - After Jesus was born in Bethlehem in Judea, during the time of King Herod, Magi from the east arrived in Jerusalem, asking, “Where is the One who has been born King of the Jews? We saw His star in the east and have come to promote a rock concert in His honor!” {Matthew 2.1-2 (NWLV)} - And sending them to Bethlehem, he said: “Go and search carefully for the Child, and when you find Him, report to me, so that I too may go to your rock concert for Him.” {Matthew 2.8 (NWLV)} - On coming to the house, they saw the Child with His mother Mary, and they fell down and sang songs toward the dirt. Then they opened their treasures and presented Him with gifts of gold and frankincense and myrrh. {Matthew 2.11 (NWLV)} - Again, the devil took Him to a very high mountain and showed Him all the kingdoms of the world and their glory. “All this I will give You,” he said, “if You will fall down and perform music and sing songs to me.” {Matthew 4.8-9 (NWLV)} - “Away from Me, Satan!” Jesus declared. “For it is written: ‘Thou shall only sing to the Lord your God.’” {Matthew 4.10 (NWLV)} - Suddenly a leper came and sang his request in an operatic baritone voice, “Lord, if You are willing, You can make me clean.” {Matthew 8.2 (NWLV)} - While Jesus was saying these things, a synagogue leader came and worshiped before Him singing his request. “My daughter has just died,” he sang. “But come and place Your hand on her, and she will live.” {Matthew 9.18 (NWLV)} - Then those who were in the boat performed music and sang songs to Him, saying, “Truly You are the Son of God!” {Matthew 14.33 (NWLV)} - The woman came and worshiped before Him and sang her request. “Lord, help me!” she sang. {Matthew 15.25 (NWLV)} - Then the servant fell on his knees worshiping him and sang his request. ‘Have patience with me,’ he sang, ‘and I will pay back everything.’ {Matthew 18.26 (NWLV)} - Then the mother of Zebedee’s sons came to Jesus with her sons and worshiped Him and sang her request of Him. {Matthew 20.20 (NWLV)} - And when they had worshiped something, they went out to the Mount of Olives. {Matthew 26.30 (NWLV)} - Suddenly Jesus met them and said, “Greetings!” They came to Him, grasped His feet, and performed music and sang songs to Him. {Matthew 28.9 (NWLV)} - When they saw Him, they performed music and sang songs to Him, but some doubted. {Matthew 28.17 (NWLV)} - When the man saw Jesus from a distance, he ran and fell on his knees before Him performing music and singing songs. {Mark 5.6 (NWLV)} - They kept striking His head with a staff and spitting on Him. And they worshiped Him performing music and singing songs. {Mark 15.19 (NWLV)} - So if You perform music for me and sing to me, it will all be Yours. But Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Worship the Lord your God and serve Him only.'” {Luke 4.7-8 (NWLV)} - And they put on a huge "Woodstock Music Event" for Him with attendees from Bethany to Jerusalem. {Luke 24.52-53 (NWLV)} - Our fathers performed music and sang songs on this mountain, but you Jews say that the place where one must perform music and sing songs is in Jerusalem.” “Believe Me, woman,” Jesus replied, “a time is coming when you will perform music and sing songs to the Father neither on this mountain nor in Jerusalem but exclusively in your church's worship center. You perform before what you do not know; we perform music and sing songs to what we do know, for salvation is from the Jews. But a time is coming and has now come when the true performers will perform music and sing songs to the Father in your church's worship center, for the Father is seeking such as these to perform before Him. God is a groupie, and He wants His favorite performers to perform music and sing songs to Him in the worship center on Sunday morning!” {John 4.20-24 (NWLV)} - “Lord, I believe,” he said. And he kissed the ground while singing a song to Jesus. {John 9.38 (NWLV)} - Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to the Jewlapoloosa. {John 12.20 (NWLV)} - They will put you out of the synagogues. In fact, a time is coming when anyone who kills you will think he is producing a charity rock concert for God. {John 16.2 (NWLV)} - But God turned away from them and gave them over to performing music and singing songs for the host of heaven, as it is written in the book of the prophets: ‘Did you bring Me sacrifices and offerings forty years in the wilderness, O house of Israel? You have sung songs with your favorite music performers in your church's worship center and worshiped the popular influencers. {Acts 7.42-43 (NWLV)} - So he started out, and on his way he met an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official in charge of the entire treasury of Candace, a queen of the Ethiopians. He had gone to the rock concert in Jerusalem to sing songs, and on his return was sitting in his chariot reading Isaiah the prophet. {Acts 8.27-28 (NWLV)} - As Peter was about to enter, Cornelius met him and fell at his feet to sing a song to him. {Acts 10.25 (NWLV)} - You can verify for yourself that no more than twelve days ago I went to perform at the rock concert at the megachurch in Jerusalem. {Acts 24.11 (NWLV)} - I do confess to you, however, that I sing songs to the God of our fathers according to the Way, which they call a sect. I believe everything that is laid down by the Law and written in the Prophets, and I have the same hope in God that they themselves cherish, that there will be a resurrection of both the A-Listers and the others. {Acts 24.14-15 (NWLV)} - They exchanged the truth of God for a lie, and sang songs to the performers rather than God, the Creator who is forever worthy of praise!f Amen. {Romans 1.25 (NWLV)} - For I could wish that I myself were cursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brothers, my own flesh and blood, the people of Israel. Theirs is the adoption as sons; theirs the divine glory and the covenants; theirs the giving of the law, the temple music program, and the promises. {Romans 9.3-4 (NWLV)} - Therefore I urge you, brothers, on account of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God, which is your service of song and dance. {Romans 12.1 (NWLV)} - But if an unbeliever or uninstructed person comes in while everyone is prophesying, he will be convicted and called to account by all, and the secrets of his heart will be made known. So he will fall facedown and sing songs to God, proclaiming, “God is truly among you!” {1 Corinthians 14.24-25 (NWLV)} - Worship one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord, always giving thanks to God the Father for everything in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. {Ephesians 5.19-20 (NWLV)} - For it is we who are the circumcision, we who sing songs by the Spirit of God, who glory in Christ Jesus, and who put no confidence in the flesh— though I myself could have such confidence since I am a TikTok Influencer. {Philippeans 3.3 (NWLV)} - And again, when God brings His firstborn into the world, He says: “Let all God’s angels put on a rock concert for Him.” {Hebrews 1.6 (NWLV)} - Now the first covenant had regulations for performing music and singing songs and also an earthly worship center. {Hebrews 9.1 (NWLV)} - When everything had been prepared in this way, the priests entered regularly onto the stage at the worship center to perform their sacred music. {Hebrews 9.6 (NWLV)} - It is an illustration for the present time, because the popularity of the performers was unable to cleanse the conscience of the groupies. {Hebrews 9.9 (NWLV)} - For the law is only a shadow of the good things to come, not the realities themselves. It can never, by the same sacrifices offered year after year, make perfect those who draw near to perform music. If it could, would not the offerings have ceased? For the musicians would have been cleansed once for all, and would no longer have felt the guilt of their sins. {Hebrews 10.1-2 (NWLV)} - By faith Jacob, when he was dying, blessed each of Joseph’s sons and sang songs as he leaned on the top of his staff. {Hebrews 11.21 (NWLV)} - Therefore, since we are receiving an unshakable kingdom, let us be filled with gratitude, and so sing songs to God acceptably with reverence and awe. {Hebrews 12.28 (NWLV)} - Look at those who perform music in the worship center of Satan, who claim to be A-Listers but are liars instead. I will make them come and perform music at your feet, and they will know that I love you. {Revelation 3.9 (NWLV)} - And whenever the living creatures give glory, honor, and thanks to the One seated on the throne who lives forever and ever, the twenty-four elders kiss the ground before the One seated on the throne, and they perform music and sing songs to Him who lives forever and ever. {Revelation 4.9-10a (NWLV)} - And the four living creatures said, “Amen,” and the elders kissed the ground and sang songs. {Revelation 5.14 (NWLV)} - And all the angels stood around the stage in the worship center and around the elders and the four living creatures. And they kissed the ground before the throne and sang songs to God {Revelation 7.11 (NWLV)} - Now the rest of mankind who were not killed by these plagues still did not repent of the recording more and more worship songs. They did not stop singing songs to demons and idols of gold, silver, bronze, stone, and wood, which cannot see or hear or walk. {Revelation 9.20 (NWLV)} - Then I was given a measuring rod like a staff and was told, “Go and measure the temple of God and the altar, and count the number of recording artists there. {Revelation 11.1 (NWLV)} - And the twenty-four elders who sit on their thrones before God fell on their faces and sang a song to God, saying: “We give thanks to You, O Lord God Almighty, the One who is and who was, because You have taken Your great power and have begun to record music. {Revelation 11.16-17 (NWLV)} - They sang songs to the dragon who had given authority to the beast, and they kissed the ground before the beast, singing, “Who is like the beast, and who can wage war against it?” {Revelation 13.4 (NWLV)} - And all who dwell on the earth will sing songs to the beast— all whose names have not been written from the foundation of the world in the Book of Life belonging to the Lamb who was slain. {Revelation 13.8 (NWLV)} - And this beast exercised all the authority of the first beast and caused the earth and those who dwell in it to sing songs to the first beast, whose mortal wound had been healed. {Revelation 13.12 (NWLV)} - The second beast was permitted to give breath to the image of the first beast, so that the image could sing songs and cause all who refused to sing to it to be killed. {Revelation 13.15 (NWLV)} - And he said in a loud voice, “Fear God and give Him glory, because the hour of His judgment has come. Perform music and sing songs to the One who made the heavens and the earth and the sea and the springs of waters.” {Revelation 14.7 (NWLV)} - And a third angel followed them, calling out in a loud voice, “If anyone sings songs to the beast and its image, and receives its mark on his forehead or on his hand, he too will drink the wine of God’s anger, poured undiluted into the cup of His wrath. He will be lose Tiktoc followers. And the smoke of their torment rises forever and ever. Day and night there is no rest for those who sing songs to the beast and its image, or for anyone who receives the mark of its name.” {Revelation 14.9-11 (NWLV)} - And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God, and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations! Who will not fear You, O Lord, and glorify Your name? For You alone are holy. All nations will come and sing songs before You, for Your righteous acts have been revealed.” {Revelation 15.2-4 (NWLV)} - So the first angel went and poured out his bowl on the earth, and loathsome, malignant sores broke out on those who had the mark of the beast and sang songs to its image. {Revelation 16.2 (NWLV)} - And the twenty-four elders and the four living creatures fell down and sang songs to God who sits on the throne, singing: “Amen, Hallelujah!” {Revelation 19.4 (NWLV)} - So I fell at his feet to sings songs to him. But he told me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers who rely on the testimony of Jesus. Perform music and sing songs to God! For the testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy.” {Revelation 19.10 (NWLV)} - But the beast was captured along with the false prophet, who on its behalf had performed music in huge concerts to deceive those who had the mark of the beast and sang to its image. Both the beast and the false prophet were thrown alive into the fiery lake of burning sulfur. {Revelation 19.20 (NWLV)} - Then I saw the thrones, and those seated on them had been given authority to judge. And I saw the souls of those who had been beheaded for their testimony of Jesus and for the word of God, and those who had not sang songs to the beast or its image, and had not received its mark on their foreheads or hands. And they came to life and reigned with Christ for a thousand years. {Revelation 20.4 (NWLV)} - And I am John, who heard and saw these things. And when I had heard and seen them, I fell down to sing songs at the feet of the angel who had shown me these things. But he said to me, “Do not do that! I am a fellow servant with you and your brothers the prophets, and with those who keep the words of this book. Put on a rock concert for God!” {Revelation 22.8-9 (NWLV)} --- ## Licensing - ###### Although the NWLV was adapted from the Berean Standard Bible (BSB), the twisted nature of the NWLV should NOT be projected upon the BSB. - ###### The Holy Bible, Berean Standard Bible (https://bereanbible.com), BSB is produced in cooperation with Bible Hub (https://biblehub.com), Discovery Bible (https://discoverybible.com), OpenBible.com (https://openbible.com), and the Berean Bible Translation Committee. This text of God's Word has been dedicated to the public domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0). - ###### Consistent with the BSB licensing, the NWLV has been dedicated to the public domain (https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0). I can only hope and pray hearts and minds will be transformed and people will choose to worship the true God, the Creator of the universe!. --- ## Outbound Links - See the [[NWLV_Overview]] for the NWLV background and all the NWLV outbound links.