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Psalms 150:4
4Praise him with tambourines and dancing. Praise him with stringed instruments and flutes.
Psalms 150:4 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
- New International Version (NIV)praise him with timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe,
- English Standard Version (ESV)Praise him with tambourine and dance; praise him with strings and pipe!
- New King James Version (NKJV)Praise Him with the timbrel and dance; Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes!
Context of Psalms 150:4
2Praise him for his mighty acts. Praise him for his immense greatness. 3Praise him with sounds from horns. Praise him with harps and lyres. Praise him with tambourines and dancing. Praise him with stringed instruments and flutes. 5Praise him with loud cymbals. Praise him with crashing cymbals. 6Let everything that breathes praise the Lord! Hallelujah!
Read all of Psalms 150Psalms 150:4 word by word
הַֽ֭לְלוּהוּ בְתֹ֣ף וּמָח֑וֹל הַֽ֝לְל֗וּהוּ בְּמִנִּ֥ים וְעוּגָֽב׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 150:4
- Exodus 15:20Then the prophet Miriam, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand. All the women, dancing with tambourines, followed her.
- Psalms 149:3Let them praise his name with dancing. Let them make music to him with tambourines and lyres,
- Psalms 33:2Give thanks with a lyre to the Lord. Make music for him on a ten-stringed harp.
- Psalms 92:3on a ten-stringed instrument and a harp and with a melody on a lyre.
- Psalms 144:9O God, I will sing a new song to you. I will sing a psalm to you on a ten-stringed harp.
- Isaiah 38:20The Lord is going to rescue me, so let us play stringed instruments. We live our lives in the Lord’s temple.
- Habakkuk 3:19The Lord Almighty is my strength. He makes my feet like those of a deer. He makes me walk on the mountains. For the choir director; on stringed instruments.
- Job 30:31So my lyre is used for mourning and my flute for loud weeping.
Commentaries on Psalms 150:4
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 4Praise him with the timbrel - Hebrew, תף tôph See this described in the notes at Isaiah 5:12. It is rendered tabret and tabrets in Genesis 31:27; 1 Samuel 10:5; 1 Samuel 18:6; Isaiah 5:12; Isaiah 24:8; Isaiah 30:32; Jeremiah 31:4; Ezekiel 28:13; timbrel and timbrels in Exodus 15:20; Judges 11:34; 2 Samuel 6:5; 1 Chronicles 13:8; Job 21:12; Psalm 81:2; Psalm 149:3; and in the margin in Jeremiah 31:4. The word does not occur elsewhere. It was an instrument…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3-5The psalmist calls all people to praise God with instruments and dancing. flutes: These are wind instruments (instruments you blow into to make sound). The Bible does not mention them as part of formal temple worship. This suggests they were used more in everyday life or celebrations, rather than in official worship at the temple. clashing cymbals: Temple musicians clapped two bronze bowls together to make a loud sound as part of the music.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 3-43-4. trumpet--used to call religious assemblies;Read the comment
- Rashi on Tanakh · v. 4with stringed instrument and flute Heb. במנים ועגב. They are kinds of musical instruments.Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 150
- 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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