Psalms 81:2
How long will ye judge unrighteously, 1 And accept the persons of sinners? Pause. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
In Context
3Judge the orphan and poor: 1 Do justice to the low and needy. 1
Cross References
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.
Psalms 95:1When the house was built after the Captivity, a Song by David. 1 Sing to the Lord a new song; 1 Sing to the Lord, all the earth. 1
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 →