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Psalms 149:3
3Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with timbrel and harp.
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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)Praise his name with dancing, accompanied by tambourine and harp.
Context of Psalms 149:3
1Praise the Lord. Sing to the Lord a new song, his praise in the assembly of his faithful people. 2Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the people of Zion be glad in their King. Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with timbrel and harp. 4For the Lord takes delight in his people; he crowns the humble with victory. 5Let his faithful people rejoice in this honor and sing 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 timbrel and dancing, praise him with the strings and pipe,
- Exodus 15:20Then Miriam the prophet, Aaron’s sister, took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women followed her, with timbrels and dancing.
- Judges 11:34When Jephthah returned to his home in Mizpah, who should come out to meet him but his daughter, dancing to the sound of timbrels! She was an only child. Except for her he had neither son nor daughter.
- 2 Samuel 6:16As the ark of the Lord was entering the City of David, Michal daughter of Saul watched from a window. And when she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him in her heart.
- Jeremiah 31:13Then young women will dance and be glad, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into gladness; I will give them comfort and joy instead of sorrow.
- Psalms 33:2Praise the Lord with the harp; make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.
- Psalms 81:2Begin the music, strike the timbrel, play the melodious harp and lyre.
- Psalms 137:2There on the poplars we hung our harps,
- Psalms 150:3Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet, praise him with the harp and lyre,
- 1 Chronicles 15:28So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouts, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and of cymbals, and the playing of lyres and harps.
- 1 Chronicles 16:42Heman and Jeduthun were responsible for the sounding of the trumpets and cymbals and for the playing of the other instruments for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were stationed at the gate.
- 1 Chronicles 25:6All these men were under the supervision of their father for the music of the temple of the Lord, with cymbals, lyres and harps, for the ministry at the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman were under the supervision of the king.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25He stationed the Levites in the temple of the Lord with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and Gad the king’s seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the Lord through his prophets.
- Ezra 3:10When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments and with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their places to praise the Lord, as prescribed by David king of Israel.
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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