Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet; Praise Him with the lute and harp!
Parallel translations
- WEB Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!
- KJV Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
- BSB Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.
- NASB ¶Praise Him with trumpet sound; Praise Him with harp and lyre.
- NLT Praise him with a blast of the ram’s horn; praise him with the lyre and harp!
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Quick answer
The psalm calls for praise with the trumpet, harp, and lyre, beginning a sweeping summons to worship God with every kind of instrument.
Overview
Here begins a list of instruments gathered for a full orchestra of praise, from the loud trumpet to the gentler stringed harp and lyre. The variety shows that praise engages the whole range of human skill and emotion. Such wholehearted, joyful worship anticipates the eternal song of the redeemed before God's throne (Revelation 5:8-9).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 11
- Ps 33:2Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
- Ps 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
- Ps 98:5–6Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody.
- Ps 81:2–3Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.
- Ps 92:3with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.
- 1 Chr 15:24Shebaniah, Joshaphat, Nethanel, Amasai, Zechariah, Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, blew the trumpets before God’s ark; and Obed-Edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
- 1 Chr 16:42and with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God; and the sons of Jeduthun to be at the gate.
- Ps 108:2Wake up, harp and lyre! I will wake up the dawn.
- 1 Chr 15:28Thus all Israel brought the ark of Yahweh’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.
- Num 10:10“Also in the day of your gladness, and in your set feasts, and in the beginnings of your months, you shall blow the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; and they shall be to you for a memorial before your God. I am Yahweh your God.”
- Dan 3:5that whenever you hear the sound of the horn, flute, zither, lyre, harp, pipe, and all kinds of music, you fall down and worship the golden image that Nebuchadnezzar the king has set up;
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