Let them praise his name with (A)dancing,
    making melody to him with (B)tambourine and (C)lyre!

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13 (A)Then shall the young women rejoice in the dance,
    and the young men and the old shall be merry.
(B)I will turn their mourning into joy;
    I will comfort them, and give them gladness for sorrow.

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Raise a song; sound (A)the tambourine,
    (B)the sweet lyre with (C)the harp.

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20 Then (A)Miriam (B)the prophetess, the (C)sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand, and (D)all the women went out after her with tambourines and dancing.

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Praise him with (A)trumpet sound;
    praise him with (B)lute and (C)harp!
Praise him with (D)tambourine and (E)dance;
    praise him with (F)strings and (G)pipe!
Praise him with sounding (H)cymbals;
    praise him with loud clashing cymbals!

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11 You have turned for me my mourning into (A)dancing;
    you have loosed my sackcloth
    and clothed me with gladness,

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28 So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, to the sound of the horn, (A)trumpets, and cymbals, and made loud music on (B)harps and lyres.

29 And as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David dancing and celebrating, and she despised him in her heart.

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David and Michal

16 As the ark of the Lord came into the city of David, Michal the daughter of Saul looked out of the window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, and she despised him in her heart.

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14 And David (A)danced before the Lord with all his might. And David was (B)wearing a linen ephod.

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34 Then Jephthah came to his home at (A)Mizpah. And behold, his daughter came out to meet him (B)with tambourines and with dances. She was his only child; besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

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On the willows[a] there
    we hung up our lyres.
For there our captors
    required of us songs,
and our tormentors, mirth, saying,
    “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

(A)How shall we sing the Lord's song
    in a foreign land?

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 137:2 Or poplars

Give thanks to the Lord with the (A)lyre;
    make melody to him with (B)the harp of (C)ten strings!

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10 And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, the priests in their vestments came forward with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, (A)according to the directions of David king of Israel.

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42 Heman and Jeduthun had trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments (A)for sacred song. The sons of Jeduthun were appointed to the gate.

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25 (A)And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, harps, and lyres, (B)according to the commandment of David and of Gad (C)the king's seer and of (D)Nathan the prophet, for the commandment was from the Lord through his prophets.

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They were all under the direction of their father in the music in the house of the Lord with cymbals, (A)harps, and lyres for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the order of the king.

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