With trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn shout for joy before the LORD, the King.
Parallel translations
- WEB With trumpets and sound of the ram’s horn, make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.
- KJV With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King.
- NKJV With trumpets and the sound of a horn; Shout joyfully before the Lord, the King.
- NASB With trumpets and the sound of the horn Shout joyfully before the King, the Lord.
- NLT with trumpets and the sound of the ram’s horn. Make a joyful symphony before the Lord, the King!
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Quick answer
With trumpets and ram's horn, make a joyful noise before the King, the LORD. The whole assembly hails Him as sovereign.
Overview
Trumpets and the ram's horn were used to announce a king and to gather God's people for worship and festival. By calling the LORD 'the King,' the psalm declares His royal authority over Israel and the nations. This anticipates the acclamation of Christ as King, before whom every knee will bow.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Ps 81:2–4Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
- Rev 19:16And He has a name written on His robe and on His thigh: KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS.
- 2 Chr 29:27And Hezekiah ordered that the burnt offering be sacrificed on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD and the trumpets began as well, accompanied by the instruments of David king of Israel.
- 2 Chr 15:14They took an oath to the LORD with a loud voice, with shouting, trumpets, and rams’ horns.
- Ps 47:5–7God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD with the sound of the horn.
- Matt 25:34Then the King will say to those on His right, ‘Come, you who are blessed by My Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
- 2 Chr 5:12–13all the Levitical singers—Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and relatives—stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps, and lyres, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.
- 1 Chr 15:28So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and with cymbals and the music of harps and lyres.
- Num 10:1–10Then the LORD said to Moses,
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