Psalms 81:2
Raise a song, sound the timbrel, sweet lyre and harp.
Open English Bible (US)
In The King James Version
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
In Context
1Sing aloud to God our strength, shout for joy to the God of Jacob.
3On the new moon blow the horn, at the full moon, the day of our festival.
Cross References
Psalms 59:17My strength, I will sing praise to you, for God is my sure retreat, my faithful God.
Psalms 95:1Come! Let us ring out our joy to the Lord, let us merrily shout to our rock of salvation.
Mark 14:26They then sang a hymn, and went out up the Mount of Olives,
Colossians 3:16Let the message of the Christ be alive in your minds in all its wealth, bringing all wisdom with it. Teach and admonish one another with psalms, and hymns, and sacred songs, full of the loving kindness of God, lifting your hearts in song to him.
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 →