(A)Let them praise His name with the dance;
Let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp.

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13 “Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance,
And the young men and the old, together;
For I will turn their mourning to joy,
Will comfort them,
And make them rejoice rather than sorrow.

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Raise a song and strike the timbrel,
The pleasant harp with the lute.

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The Song of Miriam(A)

20 Then Miriam (B)the prophetess, (C)the sister of Aaron, (D)took the timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her (E)with timbrels and with dances.

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Praise Him with the sound of the [a]trumpet;
Praise Him with the lute and harp!
Praise Him with the timbrel and dance;
Praise Him with stringed instruments and flutes!
Praise Him with loud cymbals;
Praise Him with clashing cymbals!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 150:3 cornet

11 (A)You have turned for me my mourning into dancing;
You have put off [a]my sackcloth and clothed me with gladness,

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 30:11 The sackcloth of my mourning

28 (A)Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting and with the sound of the horn, with trumpets and with cymbals, making music with stringed instruments and harps.

29 And it happened, (B)as the ark of the covenant of the Lord came to the City of David, that Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David whirling and playing music; and she despised him in her heart.

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16 Now as the ark of the Lord came into the City of David, (A)Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked through a window and saw King David leaping and whirling before the Lord; and she despised him in her heart.

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14 Then David (A)danced[a] before the Lord with all his might; and David was wearing (B)a linen ephod.

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 6:14 whirled about

Jephthah’s Daughter

34 When Jephthah came to his house at (A)Mizpah, there was (B)his daughter, coming out to meet him with timbrels and dancing; and she was his only child. Besides her he had neither son nor daughter.

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We hung our harps
Upon the willows in the midst of it.
For there those who carried us away captive asked of us a song,
And those who (A)plundered us requested mirth,
Saying, “Sing us one of the songs of Zion!”

How shall we sing the Lord’s song
In a foreign land?

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Praise the Lord with the harp;
[a]Make melody to Him with an instrument of ten strings.

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 33:2 Lit. Sing to Him

10 When the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the Lord, (A)the[a] priests stood in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites, the sons of Asaph, with cymbals, to praise the Lord, according to the (B)ordinance[b] of David king of Israel.

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Footnotes

  1. Ezra 3:10 So with LXX, Syr., Vg.; MT they stationed the priests
  2. Ezra 3:10 Lit. hands

42 and with them Heman and Jeduthun, to sound aloud with trumpets and cymbals and the musical instruments of God. Now the sons of Jeduthun were gatekeepers.

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25 (A)And he stationed the Levites in the house of the Lord with cymbals, with stringed instruments, and with harps, (B)according to the commandment of David, of (C)Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet; (D)for thus was the commandment of the Lord by His prophets.

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All these were under the direction of their father for the music in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and (A)harps, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were (B)under the authority of the king.

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