KJV King James Version
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Psalm 150:4
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.
WEB World English Bible
Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!
ASV American Standard Version
Praise him with timbrel and dance: Praise him with stringed instruments and pipe.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Praise Him with timbrel and dance, Praise Him with stringed instruments and organ.
Surrounding context — Psalm 150
1 Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him in the firmament of his power.
2 Praise him for his mighty acts: praise him according to his excellent greatness.
3 Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.
4 Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.
5 Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
6 Let every thing that hath breath praise the LORD. Praise ye the LORD.
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Cross-references
Psalm 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.Isaiah 38:20The LORD [was ready] to save me: therefore we will sing my songs to the stringed instruments all the days of our life in the house of the LORD.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 144:9I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.Job 30:31My harp also is [turned] to mourning, and my organ into the voice of them that weep.Psalm 92:3Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.Psalm 33:2Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings.Job 21:12They take the timbrel and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the organ.Psalm 45:8All thy garments [smell] of myrrh, and aloes, [and] cassia, out of the ivory palaces, whereby they have made thee glad.Habakkuk 3:19The LORD God [is] my strength, and he will make my feet like hinds’ [feet], and he will make me to walk upon mine high places. To the chief singer on my stringed instruments.
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