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Take up a melody, sound the timbrel,
    the pleasant lyre with a harp.
[a]Blow the shofar at the new moon,
    at the full moon, on our solemn feast.(A)

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Footnotes

  1. 81:4 New moon…full moon: the pilgrimage feast of harvest began with a great assembly (Lv 23:24; Nm 29:1), used the new moon as a sign (Nm 29:6), and included trumpets (Lv 23:24).

Let them praise his name in dance,
    make music with tambourine and lyre.[a](A)

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  1. 149:3 Make music with tambourine and lyre: the verse recalls the great exodus hymn of Ex 15:20.

while David and all the house of Israel danced before the Lord with all their might, with singing, and with lyres, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.(A)

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while David and all Israel danced before God with all their might, with singing, and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

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Asaph was their chief, and second to him were Zechariah, Uzziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-edom, and Jeiel. These were to play on harps and lyres, while Asaph was to sound the cymbals,

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