Sing to the Lord with the harp, With the harp and the sound of a psalm,
Parallel translations
- WEB Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody.
- KJV Sing unto the LORD with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.
- BSB Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, in melodious song with the harp.
- NASB Sing praises to the Lord with the lyre, With the lyre and the sound of melody.
- NLT Sing your praise to the Lord with the harp, with the harp and melodious song,
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Quick answer
Praise the LORD with the harp and melodious song. Skilled, heartfelt music honors the King.
Overview
Here the worship becomes specific, employing instruments and melody to express praise. The verse affirms music as a fitting vehicle for celebrating God's salvation. It models for the church a worship that engages skill and beauty in adoration of God.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 8
- Ps 33:2Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
- Rev 5:8Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
- Isa 51:3For Yahweh has comforted Zion. He has comforted all her waste places, and has made her wilderness like Eden, and her desert like the garden of Yahweh. Joy and gladness will be found therein, thanksgiving, and the voice of melody.
- 1 Chr 25:1–6Moreover, David and the captains of the army set apart for the service certain of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who were to prophesy with harps, with stringed instruments, and with cymbals. The number of those who did the work according to their service was:
- Ps 92:3–4with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.
- 2 Chr 29:25He set the Levites in Yahweh’s house with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet; for the commandment was from Yahweh by his prophets.
- Rev 14:2–3I heard a sound from heaven, like the sound of many waters, and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on their harps.
- 1 Chr 15:16David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up their voices with joy.
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