Psalm 81:2
Modern Translations
New International Version
Begin the music, strike the timbrel, play the melodious harp and lyre.

New Living Translation
Sing! Beat the tambourine. Play the sweet lyre and the harp.

English Standard Version
Raise a song; sound the tambourine, the sweet lyre with the harp.

Berean Study Bible
Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.

New American Standard Bible
Raise a song, strike the tambourine, The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.

NASB 1995
Raise a song, strike the timbrel, The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.

NASB 1977
Raise a song, strike the timbrel, The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.

Amplified Bible
Raise a song, sound the timbrel, The sweet sounding lyre with the harp.

Christian Standard Bible
Lift up a song—play the tambourine, the melodious lyre, and the harp.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Lift up a song--play the tambourine, the melodious lyre, and the harp.

Contemporary English Version
Sing as you play tambourines and the lovely sounding stringed instruments.

Good News Translation
Start the music and beat the tambourines; play pleasant music on the harps and the lyres.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Begin a psalm, and strike a tambourine. Play lyres and harps with their pleasant music.

International Standard Version
Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant-sounding lyre along with the harp.

NET Bible
Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!
Classic Translations
King James Bible
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

New King James Version
Raise a song and strike the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the lute.

King James 2000 Bible
Take a psalm, and bring here the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

New Heart English Bible
Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

World English Bible
Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

American King James Version
Take a psalm, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

American Standard Version
Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

A Faithful Version
Take up a melody, and strike the drum, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

Darby Bible Translation
Raise a song, and sound the tambour, the pleasant harp with the lute.

English Revised Version
Take up the psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Webster's Bible Translation
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Early Modern
Geneva Bible of 1587
Take the song and bring forth the timbrel, the pleasant harpe with the viole.

Bishops' Bible of 1568
Take the psalterie: bryng hyther the tabret, the merie harpe, with the lute.

Coverdale Bible of 1535
Take ye psalme, brynge hither the tabret, the mery harpe & lute.
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, "" A pleasant harp with stringed instrument.

Young's Literal Translation
Lift up a song, and give out a timbrel, A pleasant harp with psaltery.

Smith's Literal Translation
Lift up music, and ye shall give the drum, the pleasant harp, with the lyre.

Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Take up a psalm, and bring forth the timbrel: a pleasing Psalter with stringed instruments.

Translations from Aramaic
Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Take tambourines and lyres and those pleasant on harps.

Lamsa Bible
Take a psalm and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Take up the melody, and sound the timbrel, The sweet harp with the psaltery.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Take a psalm, and produce the timbrel, the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
















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