Psalms 150:5
Praise him with melodious cymbals: 1 Praise him with loud cymbals. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
In Context
4Praise him with timbrel and dance: 1 Praise him with stringed instruments and the organ. 1
6Let everything that has breath praise the Lord.
Cross References
2 Samuel 6:5And David and the children of Israel were playing before the Lord on well-tuned instruments mightily, and with songs, and with harps, and with lutes, and with drums, and with cymbals, and with pipes.
1 Chronicles 15:16And David said to the chiefs of the Levites, Set your brethren the singers with musical instruments, lutes, harps, and cymbals, to sound aloud with a voice of joy.
1 Chronicles 15:28And all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with the sound of a horn, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, playing loudly on lutes and harps.
1 Chronicles 25:1And King David and the captains of the host appointed to their services the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, prophesiers with harps, and lutes, and cymbals: and their number was according to their polls serving in their ministrations.
2 Chronicles 5:13And there was one voice in the trumpeting and in the psalm singing, and in the loud utterance with one voice to give thanks and praise the Lord; and when they raised their voice together with trumpets and cymbals, and instruments of music, and said, 1 Give thanks to the Lord, for it is good, 1 For his mercy endures forever— then the house was filled with the cloud of the glory of the Lord.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 150:2-6
An Invitation to Praise God; All Creatures Called to Praise God. 1 Praise ye the Lord . Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power. 2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness. 3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. 4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. 5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. 6 Let every thing that… Read the whole commentary →