Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
Parallel translations
- WEB Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
- BSB Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.
- NKJV Praise the Lord with the harp; Make melody to Him with an instrument of ten strings.
- NASB Give thanks to the Lord with the lyre; Sing praises to Him with a harp of ten strings.
- NLT Praise the Lord with melodies on the lyre; make music for him on the ten-stringed harp.
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Quick answer
God's people should give him thanks with instruments, offering skilled and wholehearted musical praise.
Overview
The psalmist calls for thanksgiving expressed through the lyre and ten-stringed harp, showing that worship engages the whole person and our best gifts. Music here serves devotion, directing the heart toward God in gratitude. Such praise finds its final aim in the worship of the Lamb, to whom every faithful song ultimately points.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 15
- Ps 150:3–6Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
- Ps 98:4–5Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.
- Ps 144:9I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
- Exod 15:20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
- Ps 71:22I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.
- 1 Chr 25:3Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.
- 1 Chr 25:6All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
- 1 Chr 15:28Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.
- 1 Chr 15:16And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.
- Rev 5:8And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.
- Ps 81:2–3Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
- Rev 14:2And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:
- Ps 92:3Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
- 2 Sam 6:5And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of instruments made of fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.
- Ps 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
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