Parallel Verses

Youngs Literal Translation

Singers have been before, Behind are players on instruments, In the midst virgins playing with timbrels.

New American Standard Bible

The singers went on, the musicians after them,
In the midst of the maidens beating tambourines.

King James Version

The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

Holman Bible

Singers lead the way,
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.

Darby Translation

The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets.

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,

Context Readings

God's Majestic Power

24 They have seen Thy goings, O God, Goings of my God, my king, in the sanctuary. 25 Singers have been before, Behind are players on instruments, In the midst virgins playing with timbrels. 26 In assemblies bless ye God, The Lord -- from the fountain of Israel.

Cross References

Judges 11:34

And Jephthah cometh into Mizpeh, unto his house, and lo, his daughter is coming out to meet him with timbrels, and with choruses, and save her alone, he hath none, son or daughter.

Exodus 15:20

And Miriam the inspired one, sister of Aaron, taketh the timbrel in her hand, and all the women go out after her, with timbrels and with choruses;

1 Chronicles 13:8

and David and all Israel are playing before God, with all strength, and with songs, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

1 Samuel 18:6

And it cometh to pass, in their coming in, in David's returning from smiting the Philistine, that the women come out from all the cities of Israel to sing -- also the dancers -- to meet Saul the king, with tabrets, with joy, and with three-stringed instruments;

Psalm 87:7

Singers also as players on instruments, All my fountains are in Thee!

Psalm 148:12-13

Young men, and also maidens, Aged men, with youths,

Psalm 150:3-5

Praise Him with blowing of trumpet, Praise Him with psaltery and harp.

Jeremiah 31:4

Again do I build thee, And thou hast been built, O virgin of Israel, Again thou puttest on thy tabrets, And hast gone out in the chorus of the playful.

Jeremiah 31:13

Then rejoice doth a virgin in a chorus, Both young men and old men -- together, And I have turned their mourning to joy, And have comforted them, And gladdened them above 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 a voice I heard of harpers harping with their harps,

Revelation 15:2-3

and I saw as a sea of glass mingled with fire, and those who do gain the victory over the beast, and his image, and his mark, and the number of his name, standing by the sea of the glass, having harps of God,

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