Isaiah 24:8
Good News Translation
and the joyful music of their harps and drums has ceased.

New Revised Standard Version
The mirth of the timbrels is stilled, the noise of the jubilant has ceased, the mirth of the lyre is stilled.

Contemporary English Version
No one plays tambourines or stringed instruments; all noisy celebrating has come to an end.

New American Bible
Stilled are the cheerful timbrels, ended the shouts of the jubilant, stilled the cheerful harp.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.

Isaiah 23:15,16 And it shall come to pass in that day that thou, O Tyre, shalt be forgotten, seventy years, according to the days of one king: but after seventy years, there shall be unto Tyre as the song of a harlot. . . .

Jeremiah 7:34 And I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

Jeremiah 16:9 For thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel: Behold I will take away out of this place in your sight, and in your days the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride.

Jeremiah 24:10 And I will send among them the sword, and the famine, and the pestilence: till they be consumed out of the land which I gave to them, and their fathers.

Ezekiel 26:13 And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy harps shall be heard no more.

Hosea 2:11 And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.

Revelation 18:22 And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play on the pipe and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee: and no craftsman of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all in thee: and the sound of the mill shall be heard no more at all in thee:

Context
God's Judgment on the Earth
7The vintage hath mourned, the vine hath languished away, all the merry have sighed. 8The mirth of timbrels hath ceased, the noise of them that rejoice is ended, the melody of the harp is silent.9They shall not drink wine with a song: the drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.…
Cross References
Revelation 18:22
And the voice of harpers and of musicians and of them that play on the pipe and on the trumpet shall no more be heard at all in thee: and no craftsman of any art whatsoever shall be found any more at all in thee: and the sound of the mill shall be heard no more at all in thee:

Job 30:31
My harp is turned to mourning, and my organ into the voice of those that weep.

Psalm 137:2
On the willows in the midst thereof we hung up our instruments.

Isaiah 5:12
The harp, and the lyre, and, the timbrel and the pipe, and wine are in your feasts: and the work of the Lord you regard not, nor do you consider the works of his hands.

Isaiah 5:14
Therefore hath hell enlarged her soul, and opened her mouth without any bounds, and their strong ones, and their people, and their high and glorious ones shall go down into it.

Isaiah 16:10
And gladness and joy shall be taken away from Carmel, and there shall be no rejoicing nor shouting in the vineyards. He shall not tread out wine in the press that was wont to tread it out: the voice of the treaders I have taken away.

Jeremiah 7:34
And I will cause to cease out of the cities of Juda, and out of the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of joy, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom and the voice of the bride: for the land shall be desolate.

Jeremiah 25:10
And I will take away from them the voice of mirth, and the voice of gladness, the voice of the bridegroom, and the voice of the bride, the sound of the mill and the light of the lamp.

Lamentations 5:14
The ancients have ceased from the gates: the young men from the choir of the singers.

Ezekiel 26:13
And I will make the multitude of thy songs to cease, and the sound of thy harps shall be heard no more.

Ezekiel 28:13
Thou wast in the pleasures of the paradise of God: every precious stone was thy covering: the sardius, the topaz, and the jasper, the chrysolite, and the onyx, and the beryl, the sapphire, and the carbuncle, and the emerald: gold the work of thy beauty: and thy pipes were prepared in the day that thou wast created.

Hosea 2:11
And I will cause all her mirth to cease, her solemnities, her new moons, her sabbaths, and all her festival times.

Isaiah 24:7
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