KJV King James Version
Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings.
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Psalm 33:2
Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings.
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BSB Berean Standard Bible
Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.
WEB World English Bible
Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
ASV American Standard Version
Give thanks unto Jehovah with the harp: Sing praises unto him with the psaltery of ten strings.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
Give ye thanks to Jehovah with a harp, With psaltery of ten strings sing praise to Him,
Surrounding context — Psalm 33
1 Rejoice in the LORD, O ye righteous: [for] praise is comely for the upright.
2 Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings.
3 Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
4 For the word of the LORD [is] right; and all his works [are done] in truth.
5 He loveth righteousness and judgment: the earth is full of the goodness of the LORD.
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Psalm 150:3-6Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp.Psalm 98:4-5Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise.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.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 81:2-3Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.Revelation 5:8And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four [and] twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.1 Chronicles 25:3Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the LORD.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.Revelation 14:2And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their 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.Psalm 92:3Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.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 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.Psalm 71:22I will also praise thee with the psaltery, [even] thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.Psalm 149:3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
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