Psalms 150:3

Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.

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KJV

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.

ASV

Praise him with trumpet sound: Praise him with psaltery and harp.

YLT

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

DBT

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet; praise him with lute and harp;

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On this verse

The trumpet is the contemplative mind or the mind by which the teaching of the spirit is embraced. The harp is the busy mind that is quickened by the commands of Christ.

Origen of Alexandria· COMMENTARY ON THE PSALMS 150:3-5, 253patristic

Related commentary

Praise him with the sound of the trumpet,....

John Gill· Exposition of the Old Testament (1748-1763)reformed

. Ver. 3. Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. With the loudest, clearest note call the people together. Make all men to know that we are not ashamed to worship. Summon them with unmistakable sound to bow before their God. The sound of trumpet is associated with the grandest and most solemn events, such as the giving of the law, the proclamation of jubilee, the coronation of Jewish kings, and the raging of war. It is to be thought of in reference to the coming of our Lord in his second advent and the raising of the dead.

Charles Spurgeon· The Treasury of David (1869-1885)reformed

Nor was it without reason that God under the law enjoined this multiplicity of songs, that he might lead men away from those vain and corrupt pleasures to which they are excessively addicted, to a holy and profitable joy.

John Calvin· Commentaries, 1554reformed

It is well that we are not concerned to enquire what sort of instruments these were; it is enough that they were well known then. Our concern is to know, 1.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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How the Hebraic tradition has read this verse — and Marcus Brown’s own reading of it.

Cross-references

35 linked verses

The verses this one reaches12

Psalms 33:2
Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.
Psalms 149:3
Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
Revelation 5:8
When He had taken the scroll, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp, and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of the saints.
Psalms 98:5–6
Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, in melodious song with the harp.
Psalms 81:2–3
Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
Psalms 57:8
Awake, my glory! Awake, O harp and lyre! I will awaken the dawn.
2 Samuel 6:5
David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.
Psalms 47:5
God has ascended amid shouts of joy, the LORD with the sound of the horn.
Revelation 14:2
And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps.
Psalms 144:9
I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
Psalms 92:3
with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.
1 Chronicles 16:42
Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for the songs of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were stationed at the gate.

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Around this verse

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread — the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

Saul attempts to kill David (the harpist of Israel) — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain

Psalms — The canon's longest book — 150 Psalms edited into five doxology-bookended books, composed across a millennium, attributed to David, Asaph, Korah's sons, Moses, Solomon, Heman, Ethan, and anonymous voices. A ''Torah of David''; the Bible's longest continuous liturgical-devotional corpus.

Canon: Old Testament
Author: David principally (73 Psalms + 2 NT-cited); Asaph, Sons of Korah, Solomon, Moses, Heman, Ethan; ~50 anonymous.
Date: Composed c. 1400 BC (Mosaic Ps 90) through the post-exilic period (Ps 126 ''when the Lord turned again the captivity of Zion''). Roughly a millennium of composition; editorial compilation likely into the Persian period.

More cross-references23 further linked verses, grouped by book▾ open

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Numbers1

Numbers 10:10And on your joyous occasions, your appointed feasts, and the beginning of each month,…

1 Samuel1

1 Samuel 10:5After that you will come to Gibeah of God, where the Philistines have an…

2 Samuel1

2 Samuel 6:15while he and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the…

1 Kings1

1 Kings 10:12The king made the almug wood into steps for the house of the LORD…

1 Chronicles6

2 Chronicles5

Psalms3

Psalms 108:2

Ecclesiastes1

Ecclesiastes 2:8and I accumulated for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and…

Isaiah1

Isaiah 30:29You will sing as on the night of a holy festival, and your heart…

Jeremiah1

Jeremiah 31:4Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again…

Daniel2

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first — the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Psalms 149:3
Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
leads to
- Exodus 15:20
  Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Jeremiah 31:13
  Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.
- 2 Samuel 6:14
  And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,
- 1 Chronicles 15:28–29
  So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and with cymbals and the music of harps and lyres.
Through
Psalms 33:2
Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.
leads to
- Psalms 150:3–6
  Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.
- Psalms 98:4–5
  Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth—let your cry ring out, and sing praises!
- Psalms 144:9
  I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—
Through
Psalms 92:3
with the ten-stringed harp and the melody of the lyre.
leads to
- Psalms 33:2
  Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.

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