Psalms 81:2
(81-3) Take up the melody, and sound the timbrel, the sweet harp with the psaltery.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
In Context
3(81-4) Blow the horn at the new moon, at the full moon for our feast-day.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 5:13it came even to pass, when the trumpeters and singers were as one, to make one sound to be heard in praising and thanking the LORD; and when they lifted up their voice with the trumpets and cymbals and instruments of music, and praised the LORD: 'for He is good, for His mercy endureth for ever'; that then the house was filled with a cloud, even the house of the LORD,
Psalms 59:17(59-18) O my strength, unto Thee will I sing praises; for God is my high tower, the God of my mercy.
Psalms 95:1O come, let us sing unto the LORD; let us shout for joy to the Rock of our salvation.
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 →