Psalms 81:2
Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
Majority Standard Bible
In The King James Version
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
In Context
3Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
Cross References
2 Chronicles 5:13The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud
Psalms 59:17To You, O my strength, I sing praises, for You, O God, are my fortress, my God of loving devotion.
Psalms 95:1Come, let us sing for joy to the LORD; let us shout to the Rock of our salvation!
Mark 14:26And when they had sung a hymn, they went out to the Mount of Olives.
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ richly dwell within you as you teach and admonish one another with all wisdom, and as you sing psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs with gratitude in your hearts to the Lord.
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 →