Psalms 81:2 KJV — MannaFest

Psalms 81:2

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

KJV

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ASV

Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

WEB

Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.

YLT

Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.

DBT

Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.

About this book

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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.

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.

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18 verses on the floor

Exodus 15:20
And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
Psalms 108:2
Awake, psaltery and harp: I myself will awake early.
Psalms 149:3
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
Psalms 150:3
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
Revelation 5:8
And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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Our errand is, to give unto God the glory due unto his name, and in all our religious assemblies we must mind this as our business. In doing this we must eye God as our strength, and as the God of Jacob,

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

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