Psalms 81:2
1 Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob.
Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
3 Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
4 For this is a statute for Israel, an ordinance of the God of Jacob.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
- KJV
- Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
- WEB
- Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
- ASV
- Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.
- DARBY
- Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.
- BLB
- Lift up a melody and strike the timbrel, the sweet-sounding harp with the lute.
- ÅB
- Stem i sang og la pauken lyde, den liflige citar tillikemed harpen!
- OTB
- Stem i en sang, slå på tamburinen,
Den søtlydende lyren med harpen. - B1930
- Stem i sang og la pauken lyde, den liflige citar tillikemed harpen!
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 149:1–3
Hallelujah! Sing to the LORD a new song— His praise in the assembly of the godly.
Read in contextColossians 3:16
Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to God.
Read in contextPsalms 92:3
with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.
Read in contextExodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
Read in contextEphesians 5:19
Speak to one another with psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs. Sing and make music in your hearts to the Lord,
Read in contextMark 14:26
And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Read in contextJames 5:13
Is any one of you suffering? He should pray. Is anyone cheerful? He should sing praises.
Read in contextPsalms 95:1–2
Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
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