Psalm 149:3

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Summary

Psalm 149:3

Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

In the dance

With the timbrel

General references

Psalm 81:2

Bible References

In the dance

Praise him, with timbrel and dance, - Praise him, with stringed instrument and flute,

Then came Jephthah towards Mizpah, unto his own house, and lo! his daughter, coming forth to meet him, with timbrels, and with dances, - and, she, was none other than his only child, he had not, besides her, either son or daughter.

Now it so came about that, when the ark of Yahweh entered the city of David, Michal Saul's daughter, looked out through the window, and saw King David, leaping and dancing before Yahweh, and she despised him, in her heart.

Then shall the virgin rejoice, in the dance, And young men and elders rejoice together, And I will turn their mourning into gladness and will comfort them, And will make them rejoice from their sorrow;

With the timbrel

Give ye thanks unto Yahweh with the lyre, With a harp of ten strings, make ye music unto him.

Raise a melody, and strike the timbrel, The lyre so sweet, with the harp:

Upon the willows - in the midst thereof, hanged we our lyres:

Praise him, with the blast of a horn, Praise him, with the harp and lyre:

So, all Israel, were bringing up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh, with shouting, and with sound of the horn, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, - sounding aloud, with harps, and lyres.

And, with them, Heman and Jeduthun, with the trumpets, and the cymbals, for sounding aloud, and the instruments for the songs of God, - and the sons of Jeduthun, for the gate.

All these, were under the direction of their father, in the singing of the house of Yahweh, with cymbals, harps and lyres, for the service of the house of God, - Asaph and Jeduthun and Heman, under the direction of the king.

And he caused the Levites to stand in the house of Yahweh, with cymbals and with harps and with lyres, by the commandment of David, and of Gad the seer of the king, and of Nathan the prophet, - for, by the hand of Yahweh, came the commandment by the hand of his prophets.

And, when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of Yahweh, then the priests, enrobed, took their stand with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to offer praise unto Yahweh, after the instructions of David king of Israel.

General references

Raise a melody, and strike the timbrel, The lyre so sweet, with the harp: