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Psalms 149:3
3Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and lyre.
Psalms 149:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
- New International Version (NIV)Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with timbrel and harp.
- English Standard Version (ESV)Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Let them praise His name with the dance; Let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp.
Context of Psalms 149:3
1Hallelujah! Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of the faithful. 2Let Israel celebrate its Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King. Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and lyre. 4For the Lord takes pleasure in his people; he adorns the humble with salvation. 5Let the faithful celebrate in triumphal glory; let them shout for joy on their beds.
Read all of Psalms 149Psalms 149:3 word by word
יְהַֽלְל֣וּ שְׁמ֣וֹ בְמָח֑וֹל בְּתֹ֥ף וְ֝כִנּ֗וֹר יְזַמְּרוּ־לֽוֹ׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 149:3
- Psalms 150:4Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and flute.
- Exodus 15:20Then the prophetess Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women came out following her with tambourines and dancing.
- Judges 11:34When Jephthah went to his home in Mizpah, there was his daughter, coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no other son or daughter besides her.
- 2 Samuel 6:16As the ark of the Lord was entering the city of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.
- Jeremiah 31:13Then the young women will rejoice with dancing, while young and old men rejoice together. I will turn their mourning into joy, give them consolation, and bring happiness out of grief.
- Psalms 33:2Praise the Lord with the lyre; make music to him with a ten-stringed harp.
- Psalms 81:2Lift up a song — play the tambourine, the melodious lyre, and the harp.
- Psalms 137:2There we hung up our lyres on the poplar trees,
- Psalms 150:3Praise him with the blast of a ram’s horn; praise him with harp and lyre.
- 1 Chronicles 15:28So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouts, the sound of the ram’s horn, trumpets, and cymbals, and the playing of harps and lyres.
- 1 Chronicles 16:42Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals to play and musical instruments of God. Jeduthun’s sons were at the city gate.
- 1 Chronicles 25:6All these men were under their own fathers’ authority for the music in the Lord’s temple, with cymbals, harps, and lyres for the service of God’s temple. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the king’s authority.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, Gad the king’s seer, and the prophet Nathan. For the command was from the Lord through his prophets.
- Ezra 3:10When the builders had laid the foundation of the Lord’s temple, the priests, dressed in their robes and holding trumpets, and the Levites descended from Asaph, holding cymbals, took their positions to praise the Lord, as King David of Israel had instructed.
Commentaries on Psalms 149:3
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Let them praise his name in the dance - Margin, with the pipe. The Hebrew word here - מחול mâchôl - is rendered dancing in Psalm 30:11; dance, as here, Psalm 150:4 (where also the margin has pipe); Jeremiah 31:13; Lamentations 5:15; dances, Jeremiah 31:4. It does not elsewhere occur. On the verb חול chûl see Psalm 10:5, note; Psalm 51:5, note. Here it cannot be improper to regard it as referring to that measured tread, or solemn movement which…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 1-9This psalm of praise celebrates the Lord's victory. God is the Maker of Israel (Psalm 149:1–2) and the victorious King who shares his glory with his faithful followers (149:3–9).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. in the dance--(Psa 30:11). The dance is connected with other terms, expressive of the great joy of the occasion. The word may be rendered "lute," to which the other instruments are joined. sing praises--or, sing and play.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 149
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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