KJV King James Version
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Psalm 149:3
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.
WEB World English Bible
Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
ASV American Standard Version
Let them praise his name in the dance: Let them sing praises unto him with timbrel and harp.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
They praise His name in a dance, With timbrel and harp sing praise to Him.
Surrounding context — Psalm 149
1 Praise ye the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, [and] his praise in the congregation of saints.
2 Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
5 Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.
6 [Let] the high [praises] of God [be] in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand;
Topics connected to this verse
Original-language word links
These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
Cross-references
Jeremiah 31:13Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, both young men and old together: for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.Exodus 15:20And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.Psalm 81:2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.1 Chronicles 15:28-29Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.2 Samuel 6:16And as the ark of the LORD came into the city of David, Michal Saul’s daughter looked through a window, and saw king David leaping and dancing before the LORD; and she despised him in her heart.2 Samuel 6:14And David danced before the LORD with all [his] might; and David [was] girded with a linen ephod.Psalm 150:3-5Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.Psalm 30:11Thou hast turned for me my mourning into dancing: thou hast put off my sackcloth, and girded me with gladness;Judges 11:34And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she [was his] only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.Psalm 33:2Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings.Ezra 3:10And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.1 Chronicles 16:42And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun [were] porters.Psalm 137:2-4We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof.2 Chronicles 29:25And he set the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, with psalteries, and with harps, according to the commandment of David, and of Gad the king’s seer, and Nathan the prophet: for [so was] the commandment of the LORD by his prophets.1 Chronicles 25:6All these [were] under the hands of their father for song [in] the house of the LORD, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.
HISTORICAL INTERPRETATION
Compare classic commentaries on Psalm 149:3
Put Matthew Henry, Adam Clarke, Calvin, Wesley, Barnes, Jamieson–Fausset–Brown, Aquinas’ Catena and other public-domain sources beside the passage.
Compare commentaries →