With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise 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.
- BSB With trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn shout for joy 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.
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Cross-references · 9
- Ps 81:2–4Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
- Rev 19:16And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.
- 2 Chr 29:27And Hezekiah commanded to offer the burnt offering upon the altar. And when the burnt offering began, the song of the LORD began also with the trumpets, and with the instruments ordained by David king of Israel.
- 2 Chr 15:14And they sware unto the LORD with a loud voice, and with shouting, and with trumpets, and with cornets.
- Ps 47:5–7God is gone up with a shout, the LORD with the sound of a trumpet.
- Matt 25:34Then shall the King say unto them on his right hand, Come, ye blessed of my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world:
- 2 Chr 5:12–13Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
- 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.
- Num 10:1–10And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying,
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