'Lyre' in the Bible
Why did you hide [your intention] to flee and {trick me}, and did not tell me so that I would have sent you away with joy and song and tambourine and lyre?
Please, let our lord command your servants [who are] before you! Let them seek a man skilled in playing on the lyre. {When} the evil spirit from God [is] upon you, he can play {on it} and {you will feel better}."
{On} [the] next day, the evil spirit from God rushed upon Saul, and he prophesied in the middle of the house. Now David was playing [the lyre] with his hand on [that] day {as usual}, and the spear was in Saul's hand.
They {sing} to [the] tambourine and lyre, and they rejoice to [the] sound of [the] long flute.
So my lyre came to be [used] for mourning, and my flute [for the] voice of [those who] weep.
Give thanks to Yahweh with [the] lyre; with a harp of ten strings play to him.
Then I will go to the altar of God, to God, {my surpassing joy}, and I will praise you with lyre, O God, my God.
I will incline my ear to a proverb; I will {propound} my riddle on a lyre.
Awake, my glory; Awake, harp and lyre. I will awake [the] dawn.
On my part, I will praise you with a stringed instrument, [and] your faithfulness, O my God. I will sing praises to you with a lyre, O Holy One of Israel.
Lift up a song and strike [the] tambourine, [the] pleasant lyre, together with [the] harp.
on [the] ten [string], and on [the] harp, with a melody on [the] lyre.
Sing praises to Yahweh with lyre, with lyre and melodious sound.
O God, I will sing a new song to you. With a lyre of ten [strings] I will sing praise to you,
Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving; sing praises to our God with lyre,
Let them praise his name with dancing; let them sing praises to him with tambourine and lyre.
Praise him with blast of horn; praise him with harp and lyre.
And [there] will be lyre and harp, tambourine and flute, and wine [at] their feasts, but they do not look at the deeds of Yahweh, and they do not see the work of his hands.
[the] joy of [the] tambourine has stopped. The noise of [the] jubilant has ceased; [the] joy of [the] lyre has stopped.
[that] at the time that you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, [the] lyre, [the] trigon, [the] harp, [the] drum and all kinds of music, you must fall down and you must worship the statue of gold that Nebuchadnezzar the king [has] set up.
{Therefore}, {at that time}, {as soon as} all the peoples heard the sound of the horn, the flute, [the] lyre, [the] trigon, [the] harp and all kinds of music, all the peoples, {the nations and people of all languages} [were] falling down [and] were worshiping the statue of gold that Nebuchadnezzar the king had set up.
You, O king, have made a decree that {everyone} who hears the sound of the horn, the flute, [the] lyre, [the] trigon, [the] harp and [the] drum and all kinds of music, he shall fall down and shall worship the statue of gold.
Now if you are ready so that {when} you hear the sound of the horn, the flute, the lyre, [the] trigon, [the] harp and [the] drum and all kinds of music, you fall down and you worship the statue that I have made, [that will be good]. But if you do not worship it, {immediately} you will be thrown into the midst of the furnace of blazing fire, and {who is the god} who will rescue you from my hands?"