to the music of (A)the lute and (B)the harp,
    to the melody of (C)the lyre.

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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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25 (A)the singers in front, (B)the musicians last,
    between them (C)virgins playing tambourines:

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Dedication of the Wall

27 And at (A)the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites in all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem to celebrate the dedication with gladness, with thanksgivings and with singing, (B)with cymbals, harps, and lyres.

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and one third shall be at the king's house and one third at the Gate of the Foundation. And all the people shall be in the courts of the house of the Lord.

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And David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their might, with song and (A)lyres and harps and tambourines and cymbals and trumpets.

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16 The Lord has made himself (A)known; he has executed judgment;
    the wicked are snared in the work of their own hands. Higgaion.[a] Selah

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 9:16 Probably a musical or liturgical term

After that you shall come to (A)Gibeath-elohim,[a] (B)where there is a garrison of the Philistines. And there, as soon as you come to the city, you will meet a group of prophets coming down (C)from the high place with harp, tambourine, flute, and lyre before them, prophesying.

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Footnotes

  1. 1 Samuel 10:5 Gibeath-elohim means the hill of God

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

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Raise a song; sound (A)the tambourine,
    (B)the sweet lyre with (C)the harp.
Blow the trumpet at (D)the new moon,
    at the full moon, on our feast day.

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    (A)Awake, (B)my glory![a]
Awake, (C)O harp and lyre!
    I will awake the dawn!

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 57:8 Or my whole being

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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16 David also commanded the chiefs of the Levites to appoint their brothers as the singers who should play loudly on (A)musical instruments, on harps and lyres and cymbals, to raise sounds of joy.

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