Psalm 149:3

Translations

Modern

Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.

Traditional

Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.

Literal

Let them praise His name with dancing; with tambourine and harp let them make music to Him!

Latin

Laudent nomen ejus in choro; in tympano et psalterio psallant ei.

Original

Hebrew

English

Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.

Notes

Psalms 149:1–9

This psalm of praise celebrates the Lord's victory. God is the Maker of Israel (Psalm 149:1–2) and the victorious King who shares his glory with his faithful followers (149:3–9).

Psalms 146:1–150:6

The Psalter ends with five hallelujah psalms, so named because each begins and ends with Praise the LORD! (Hebrew haleluyah).

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Celebration Retribution

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Jeremiah 31:13
Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.
2 Samuel 6:16
As the ark of the LORD was entering the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked down from a window and saw King David leaping and dancing before the LORD, and she despised him in her heart.
Exodus 15:20
Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.
Psalm 81:2
Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.
1 Chronicles 15:28–29
So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and with cymbals and the music of harps and lyres.
2 Samuel 6:14
And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,
Psalm 30:11
You turned my mourning into dancing; You peeled off my sackcloth and clothed me with joy,
Psalm 150:3–5
Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.
Judges 11:34
And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.
Psalm 137:2–4
There on the willows we hung our harps,
Ezra 3:10
When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of Israel had prescribed.
1 Chronicles 16:42
Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for the songs of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were stationed at the gate.

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