Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!
Parallel translations
- KJV Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
- BSB Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
- NKJV Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes!
- NASB Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; Praise Him with stringed instruments and flute.
- NLT Praise him with the tambourine and dancing; praise him with strings and flutes!
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Quick answer
Praise is to be offered with tambourine, dancing, stringed instruments, and flute, engaging the whole body and every joyful means of worship.
Overview
The summons widens to include not only instruments but bodily expression in dancing, reflecting exuberant, festive worship in Israel's tradition (compare 2 Samuel 6:14). The point is that praise should be heartfelt and complete, holding nothing back. Christians may differ over particular forms of worship today, but the verse's enduring call is to glad, sincere praise of God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Ps 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
- Isa 38:20Yahweh will save me. Therefore we will sing my songs with stringed instruments all the days of our life in Yahweh’s house.
- Exod 15:20Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.
- Ps 144:9I will sing a new song to you, God. On a ten-stringed lyre, I will sing praises to you.
- Ps 92:3with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.
- Job 30:31Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.
- Ps 45:8All your garments smell like myrrh, aloes, and cassia. Out of ivory palaces stringed instruments have made you glad.
- Job 21:12They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.
- Ps 33:2Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
- Hab 3:19Yahweh, the Lord, is my strength. He makes my feet like deer’s feet, and enables me to go in high places. For the music director, on my stringed instruments.
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