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Psalms 149:3
3Yes, dance to praise the name of the Lord. Take your harps and tambourines and make music to praise him with your songs.
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! Praise the Lord! Sing a new song to worship the Lord. When his own people meet together, they should praise him. 2People of Israel, be very happy, because God made you. People of Zion, be very happy, because God is your king. Yes, dance to praise the name of the Lord. Take your harps and tambourines and make music to praise him with your songs. 4When the Lord's people serve him, it makes him happy. He is happy to help humble people, so that people respect them. 5The people who belong to God should be very happy, because he has made them great. They should always sing with joy, even when they lie on their beds at night.
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 150:4Dance and hit drums to praise him! Make music with harps and flutes to praise him!
- Exodus 15:20Then Miriam, Aaron's sister, who was a prophet, took a tambourine in her hand. All the other women followed her, with tambourines in their hands. They danced while Miriam sang to them.
- Judges 11:34After that, Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah. As he arrived, his daughter came out to meet him. She was dancing and making music with a tambourine. She was Jephthah's only child. He had no other son or daughter.
- 2 Samuel 6:16While they were bringing the Lord's Covenant Box into the City of David, Saul's daughter Michal looked out through a window. She saw what King David was doing. He was jumping and dancing to worship the Lord. Michal felt ashamed of him.
- Jeremiah 31:13The Lord says this: ‘Young women will dance because they are happy. The young men and the old men will also be happy. I will cause them to laugh instead of weep. I will comfort them, so that they are happy instead of sad.
- Psalms 33:2Pick up your harp and praise the Lord! Make music for him with a lyre that has ten strings.
- Psalms 81:2Start the music! Beat your tambourines! Make beautiful music on your harps and lyres.
- Psalms 137:2We hung up our harps there on the branches of the willow trees.
- Psalms 150:3Praise him with music! Yes! Use trumpets, harps and lyres to praise God!
- 1 Chronicles 15:28In that way, all the Israelites brought the Lord's Covenant Box to Jerusalem. They were shouting. They were making loud music with trumpets, cymbals, lyres and harps.
- 1 Chronicles 16:42Heman and Jeduthun also had authority for the trumpets, the cymbals and the other musical instruments. The musicians used them to praise God with their music. Jeduthun's sons stood as guards at the entrance of the tabernacle.
- 1 Chronicles 25:6All these musicians were under the authority of their fathers. They used cymbals, harps and lyres to make music to worship the Lord in his temple. The king had authority over Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25The king told the Levites to stand in the Lord's temple with their cymbals, harps and lyres to make music. They stood at the places where King David, David's prophet Gad and the prophet Nathan had told the Levites to stand. This was the Lord's command that he had given to his prophets.
- Ezra 3:10The men who were building the Lord's temple finished the foundations. Then the priests put on their special clothes. They made a noise with their trumpets. The Levites (sons of Asaph) made a noise with their cymbals. They all stood to praise the Lord, in the way that Israel's King David had told them many years before.
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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