◄ Psalm 81:2 {80:3} ►
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Good News Translation
Start the music and beat the tambourines; play pleasant music on the harps and the lyres.

New Revised Standard Version
Raise a song, sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.

Contemporary English Version
Sing as you play tambourines and the lovely sounding stringed instruments.

New American Bible
Take up a melody, sound the timbrel, the pleasant lyre with a harp.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

Psalm 92:3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.

Psalm 95:1,2 Come let us praise the Lord with joy: let us joyfully sing to God our saviour. . . .

Psalm 149:1-3 Sing ye to the Lord a new canticle: let his praise be in the church of the saints. . . .

Mark 14:26 And when they had sung an hymn, they went forth to the mount of Olives.

Ephesians 5:19 Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual canticles, singing and making melody in your hearts to the Lord:

Colossians 3:16 Let the word of Christ dwell in you abundantly: in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing one another in psalms, hymns and spiritual canticles, singing in grace in your hearts to God.

James 5:13 Is any of you sad? Let him pray: Is he cheerful in mind? Let him sing.

Context
Sing for Joy to God, Our Strength
1Unto the end, for the winepresses, a psalm for Asaph himself. [2] Rejoice to God our helper: sing aloud to the God of Jacob. 2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.3Blow up the trumpet on the new moon, on the noted day of your solemnity.…
Cross References
Exodus 15:20
So Mary the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand: and all the women went forth after her with timbrels and with dances.

Psalm 71:22
For I will also confess to thee thy truth with the instruments of psaltery: O God, I will sing to thee with the harp, thou holy one of Israel.

Psalm 92:3
Upon an instrument of ten strings, upon the psaltery: with a canticle upon the harp.

Psalm 95:2
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving; and make a joyful noise to him with psalms.

Psalm 98:5
Sing praise to the Lord on the harp, on the harp, and with the voice of a psalm:

Psalm 108:2
Arise, my glory; arise, psaltery and harp: I will arise in the morning early.

Psalm 144:9
To thee, O God, I will sing a new canticle: on the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings I will sing praises to thee.

Psalm 147:7
Sing ye to the Lord with praise: sing to our God upon the harp.

Psalm 149:3
Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.

Psalm 81:1
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