Psalms 81:2
Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
In Context
3Blow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,
Cross References
2 Chronicles 5:13yea, it cometh to pass, as one [are] trumpeters and singers, to sound — one voice — to praise and to give thanks to Jehovah, and at the lifting up of the sound with trumpets, and with cymbals, and with instruments of song, and at giving praise to Jehovah, for good, for to the age [is] His kindness, that the house is filled with a cloud — the house of Jehovah,
Psalms 59:17O my Strength, unto Thee I sing praise, For God [is] my tower, the God of my kindness!
Psalms 95:1Come, we sing to Jehovah, We shout to the rock of our salvation.
Mark 14:26And having sung an hymn, they went forth to the mount of the Olives,
Colossians 3:16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly, in all wisdom, teaching and admonishing each other, in psalms, and hymns, and spiritual songs, in grace singing 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 →