Who strum on the strings of a harp; Who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;
One other word regarding this passage.  The orthodox Hebrew church, who understand the Hebrew text of the Old Testament better than any Gentile commentator could ever expect to know it, have never allowed instruments of music in their worship of God, their conviction of the sinfulness of it being due in part to the teaching of these very passages in Amos; and the Jews, at least a very considerable percentage of them, have consistently maintained this conviction for some twenty-seven centuries!  The view of this passage advocated here is then, by no means, a Johnny-come-lately opinion.