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Selected Verse: Psalms 81:2 - King James
| Verse |
Translation |
Text |
| Ps 81:2 |
King James |
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. |
Summary Of Commentaries Associated With The Selected Verse
| A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882] |
| unites the most joyful kinds of music, vocal and instrumental. |
| Notes on the Bible, by Albert Barnes, [1834] |
Take a psalm - literally, "Lift up a psalm; perhaps, as we should say, "Raise the tune." Or, it may mean, Take an ode, a hymn, a psalm, composed for the occasion, and accompany it with the instruments of music which are specified.
And bring hither the timbrel - For the purpose of praise. On the meaning of this word rendered "timbrel" - תף tôph - see the notes at Isa 5:12.
The pleasant harp - On the word here rendered "harp" - כנור kinnôr - see also the notes at Isa 5:12. The word translated "pleasant" - נעים nâ‛ı̂ym - means properly pleasant, agreeable, sweet, Psa 133:1; Psa 147:1. It is connected here with the word harp, as meaning that that instrument was distinguished particularly for a sweet or pleasant sound.
With the psaltery - On the meaning of the word used here - נבל nebel - see the notes at Isa 5:12. These were the common instruments of music among the Hebrews. They were employed alike on sacred occasions, and in scenes of revelry. See Isa 5:12. |
| Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826 |
Take a psalm - זמרה zimrah. I rather think that this was the name of a musical instrument.
Bring hither the timbrel - תף toph; some kind of drum or tom tom.
The pleasant harp - כנור kinnor. Probably a sistrum, or something like it. A Stringed instrument.
With the psaltery - נבל nebel, the nabla. The cithara, Septuagint. |
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
1 Praise ye the LORD: for it is good to sing praises unto our God; for it is pleasant; and praise is comely.
1 A Song of degrees of David. Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.
12 And the harp, and the viol, the tabret, and pipe, and wine, are in their feasts: but they regard not the work of the LORD, neither consider the operation of his hands.