KJV King James Version
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
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Psalm 150:5
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Praise Him with clashing cymbals; praise Him with resounding cymbals.
WEB World English Bible
Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals!
ASV American Standard Version
Praise him with loud cymbals: Praise him with high sounding cymbals.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Praise Him with cymbals of sounding, Praise Him with cymbals of shouting.
Surrounding context — Psalm 150
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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1 Chronicles 15:16And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren [to be] the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy.1 Chronicles 25:1Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was:1 Chronicles 15:19So the singers, Heman, Asaph, and Ethan, [were appointed] to sound with cymbals of brass;1 Chronicles 15:28Thus 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.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.1 Chronicles 16:5Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;2 Samuel 6:5And David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD on all manner of [instruments made of] fir wood, even on harps, and on psalteries, and on timbrels, and on cornets, and on cymbals.1 Chronicles 13:8And David and all Israel played before God with all [their] might, and with singing, and with harps, and with psalteries, and with timbrels, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.
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