Revised Literal Translation
Psalms 81:3
3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Psalms 81:3 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
- New International Version (NIV)Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;
- English Standard Version (ESV)Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
- New King James Version (NKJV)Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon, At the full moon, on our solemn feast day.
Context of Psalms 81:3
1Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day. 4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob. 5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.
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תִּקְע֣וּ בַחֹ֣דֶשׁ שׁוֹפָ֑ר בַּ֝כֵּ֗סֶה לְי֣וֹם חַגֵּֽנוּ׃Read the interlinear
Cross-references for Psalms 81:3
- Psalms 98:6With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before Yhwh, the King.
- Numbers 10:1And Yhwh spake unto Moses, saying,
- 1 Chronicles 15:24And Shebaniah, and Jehoshaphat, and Nethaneel, and Amasai, and Zechariah, and Benaiah, and Eliezer, the priests, did blow with the trumpets before the ark of God: and Obed–edom and Jehiah were doorkeepers for the ark.
- 1 Chronicles 16:6Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.
- 2 Chronicles 5:12Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)
- 2 Chronicles 13:12And, behold, God himself is with us for our captain, and his priests with sounding trumpets to cry alarm against you. O children of Israel, fight ye not against Yhwh God of your fathers; for ye shall not prosper.
- Leviticus 23:24Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation.
- Numbers 10:10Also in the day of your gladness, and in your solemn days, and in the beginnings of your months, ye shall blow with the trumpets over your burnt offerings, and over the sacrifices of your peace offerings; that they may be to you for a memorial before your God: I am Yhwh your God.
- Numbers 28:11And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto Yhwh; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;
- 2 Kings 4:23And he said, Wherefore wilt thou go to him to day? it is neither new moon, nor sabbath. And she said, It shall be well.
- Colossians 2:16Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:
- Numbers 15:3And will make an offering by fire unto Yhwh, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto Yhwh, of the herd, or of the flock:
- Deuteronomy 16:15Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto Yhwh thy God in the place which Yhwh shall choose: because Yhwh thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.
- 2 Chronicles 2:4Behold, I build an house to the name of Yhwh my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of Yhwh our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 8:13Even after a certain rate every day, offering according to the commandment of Moses, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts, three times in the year, even in the feast of unleavened bread, and in the feast of weeks, and in the feast of tabernacles.
- Lamentations 2:6And he hath violently taken away his tabernacle, as if it were of a garden: he hath destroyed his places of the assembly: Yhwh hath caused the solemn feasts and sabbaths to be forgotten in Zion, and hath despised in the indignation of his anger the king and the priest.
Commentaries on Psalms 81:3
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 3Blow up the trumpet - שופר shophar, a species of horn. Certainly a wind instrument, as the two last were stringed instruments. Perhaps some chanted a psalm in recitativo, while all these instruments vere used as accompaniments. In a representative system of religion, such as the Jewish, there must have been much outside work, all emblematical of better things: no proof that such things should be continued under the Gospel dispensation, where outsides have…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 3Blow up the trumpet - The word rendered blow means to make a clangor or noise as on a trumpet. The trumpet was, like the timbrel, the harp, and the psaltery, a common instrument of music, and was employed on all their festive occasions. It was at first made of horn, and then was made similar in shape to a horn. Compare Joshua 6:5; Leviticus 25:9; Job 39:25. In the new moon - On the festival held at the time of the new moon. There was a high festival on…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 3The ram’s horn gathered armies and announced special holy days (Psalms 47:5; 98:6). New Moon: The first day of each lunar month was a festival.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 33. the new moon--or the month. the time appointed--(Compare Pr 7:20).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 81
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- 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
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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