Psalms 81:2
Start playing the music, and beat the tambourines, and play nice music on the harps and ◄lyres/other stringed instruments►.
Translation for Translators
In The King James Version
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
In Context
Cross References
2 Chronicles 5:13The men blowing trumpets, those playing the cymbals and other musical instruments, and the singers, made music together, praising Yahweh and singing this song: “Yahweh is good to us; he faithfully loves us forever.” Then suddenly the temple was filled with a cloud.
Psalms 59:17God, you are the one who enables me to be strong; you are my refuge; you faithfully love me.
Psalms 95:1Come, sing to Yahweh; sing joyfully to the one who protects us [MET] and saves us!
Mark 14:26After they sang a hymn, they went out toward Olive Tree Hill.
Colossians 3:16And continue to let the message about Christ govern/direct all you think and do, as you very wisely teach and warn one another with psalms and hymns and spiritual songs (OR, songs that God’s Spirit gives you), while you sincerely and thankfully sing to God.
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 →