Parallel Verses
Darby Translation
The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
Holman Bible
with musicians following;
among them are young women
playing tambourines.
International Standard Version
The singers are in front, the musicians follow, strumming their stringed instruments among the maidens who are playing their tambourines.
A Conservative Version
The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels.
American Standard Version
The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels.
Amplified
The singers go in front, the players of instruments last;
Between them the maidens playing on tambourines.
Bible in Basic English
The makers of songs go before, the players of music come after, among the young girls playing on brass instruments.
Julia Smith Translation
The chiefs went before, they playing on instruments, after; in the midst, girls beating the tabret.
King James 2000
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
Lexham Expanded Bible
Singers went up front, those playing stringed instruments last, between [them] young women [playing] tambourines.
Modern King James verseion
The singers went before, then the musicians came; among them were the virgins playing the timbrels.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The singers go before, the minstrels follow after; in the midst are the damsels playing with the timbrels.
NET Bible
Singers walk in front; musicians follow playing their stringed instruments, in the midst of young women playing tambourines.
New Heart English Bible
The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,
The Emphasized Bible
In front are the singers, Behind are the harpers, In the midst of damsels playing on timbrels:
Webster
The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.
World English Bible
The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,
Youngs Literal Translation
Singers have been before, Behind are players on instruments, In the midst virgins playing with timbrels.
Themes
Chosen Instruments » Trumpets » Full orchestra
Chosen Instruments » Names of » Timbrels, or tambourines
Music » Trumpets » Full orchestra
Music » Names of » Timbrels, or tambourines
Music » Musicians » Players on instruments
Music » Instruments of » Timbrel
Musical instruments » Trumpets » Full orchestra
Musical instruments » Names of » Timbrels, or tambourines
Musicians » Players on instruments
References
Word Count of 20 Translations in Psalm 68:25
Verse Info
Context Readings
God's Majestic Power
24 They have seen thy goings, O God, the goings of my God, my King, in the sanctuary. 25 The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets. 26 In the congregations bless ye God, the Lord, ye from the fountain of Israel.
Names
Cross References
Judges 11:34
Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances; she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.
Exodus 15:20
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took the tambour in her hand, and all the women went out after her with tambours and with dances.
1 Chronicles 13:8
And David and all Israel played before God with all their might, and with singing, and with harps, and with lutes, and with tambours, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
1 Samuel 18:6
And it came to pass as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambours, with joy, and with triangles.
Psalm 87:7
As well the singers as the dancers shall say, All my springs are in thee.
Psalm 148:12-13
Both young men and maidens, old men with youths, --
Psalm 150:3-5
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with lute and harp;
Jeremiah 31:4
I will build thee again, and thou shalt be built, O virgin of Israel! Thou shalt again be adorned with thy tambours, and shalt go forth in the dances of them that make merry.
Jeremiah 31:13
Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and old together; for I will turn their mourning into gladness, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice after their sorrow.
Revelation 14:2-3
And I heard a voice out of the heaven as a voice of many waters, and as a voice of great thunder. And the voice which I heard was as of harp-singers harping with their harps;
Revelation 15:2-3
And I saw as a glass sea, mingled with fire, and those that had gained the victory over the beast, and over its image, and over the number of its name, standing upon the glass sea, having harps of God.