Psalms 81:2
\81:1\Make a song to God our strength: make a glad cry to the God of Jacob.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
In Context
1To the chief music-maker; put to the Gittith. Of Asaph.
3\81:2\Take up the melody, playing on an instrument of music, even on corded instruments.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 5:13And when the players on horns, and those who made melody in song, with one voice were sounding the praise and glory of the Lord; with loud voices and with wind instruments, and brass and corded instruments of music, praising the Lord and saying, He is good; his mercy is unchanging for ever: then the house was full of the cloud of the glory of the Lord,
Psalms 59:17\59:16\But I will make songs of your power; yes, I will give cries of joy for your mercy in the morning; because you have been my strength and my high tower in the day of my trouble.
Psalms 95:1O come, let us make songs to the Lord; sending up glad voices to the Rock of our salvation.
Mark 14:26And after a song of praise to God they went out to the Mountain of Olives.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ be in you in all wealth of wisdom; teaching and helping one another with songs of praise and holy words, making melody to God with grace in your hearts.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 81:2-8
An Invitation to Praise. 1 Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2 Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. 3 Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4 For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5 This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not. 6 I removed his shoulder from the… Read the whole commentary →