Psalm 149:3
New International Version
Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with timbrel and harp.

New Living Translation
Praise his name with dancing, accompanied by tambourine and harp.

English Standard Version
Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre!

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

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

New King James Version
Let them praise His name with the dance; Let them sing praises to Him with the timbrel and harp.

New American Standard Bible
They shall praise His name with dancing; They shall sing praises to Him with tambourine and lyre.

NASB 1995
Let them praise His name with dancing; Let them sing praises to Him with timbrel and lyre.

NASB 1977
Let them praise His name with dancing; Let them sing praises to Him with timbrel and lyre.

Legacy Standard Bible
Let them praise His name with dancing; With tambourine and lyre let them sing praises to Him.

Amplified Bible
Let them praise His name with dancing; Let them sing praises to Him with the tambourine and lyre.

Christian Standard Bible
Let them praise his name with dancing and make music to him with tambourine and lyre.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Let them praise His name with dancing and make music to Him with tambourine and lyre.

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

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
And they will praise his Name with tambourines and with timbrels and with harps; let them sing to him!

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sings praises to him with timbrel and psaltery.

Contemporary English Version
Praise his name by dancing and playing music on harps and tambourines.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them praise his name in choir: let them sing to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.

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

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Let them praise his name with dancing. Let them make music to him with tambourines and lyres,

Good News Translation
Praise his name with dancing; play drums and harps in praise of him.

International Standard Version
May they praise his name with dancing, chanting songs to him with tambourines and lyres.

JPS Tanakh 1917
Let them praise His name in the dance; Let them sing praises unto Him with the timbrel and harp.

Literal Standard Version
They praise His Name in a dance, | Sing praise to Him with timbrel and harp.

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

New American Bible
Let them praise his name in dance, make music with tambourine and lyre.

NET Bible
Let them praise his name with dancing! Let them sing praises to him to the accompaniment of the tambourine and harp!

New Revised Standard Version
Let them praise his name with dancing, making melody to him with tambourine and lyre.

New Heart English Bible
Let them praise his name in the dance. Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp.

Webster's Bible Translation
Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises to him with the timbrel and harp:

World English Bible
Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!

Young's Literal Translation
They praise His name in a dance, With timbrel and harp sing praise to Him.

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Context
Sing to the LORD a New Song
2Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King. 3Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp. 4For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation.…

Cross References
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.

1 Samuel 18:6
As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instruments.

2 Samuel 6:14
And David, wearing a linen ephod, danced with all his might before the LORD,

Psalm 81:2
Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.

Psalm 87:7
Singers and pipers will proclaim, "All my springs of joy are in You."

Psalm 150:4
Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute.


Treasury of Scripture

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

in the dance.

Psalm 150:4
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

Exodus 15:20
And 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.

Judges 11:34
And Jephthah came to Mizpeh unto his house, and, behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances: and she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter.

with the timbrel

Psalm 33:2
Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

Psalm 81:2
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Psalm 137:2-4
We hanged our harps upon the willows in the midst thereof…

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Psalm 149
1. The prophet exhorts to praise God for his love to the church
5. And for that power which he has given to the church














(3) In the dance.--Rather, as margin, with the pipe. The use of the word machol in what was evidently a list of all the orchestral instruments used in the Temple in the next psalm, would alone be almost decisive of the meaning. But one possible derivation is certainly in favour of this rendering, as also the translation in the Syriac version by the name of a flute still found in Syria. Its connection, too, with the timbrel or drum (comp. our pipe and tabor), just as a cognate, chalil, is connected in 1Samuel 10:5; Isaiah 5:12, points the same way. (See Bible Educator, i. p. 70, and Note to Song of Solomon 6:13.)

Timbrel.--See Exodus 15:20; Bible Educator, i. 314.

Harp.--See Psalm 33:2. . . .

Verse 3. - Let them praise his Name in the dance (comp. Psalm 150:4). (On the employment of dancing by the Hebrews as a religious exercise, and in their most solemn acts of worship, see Exodus 15:20; 2 Samuel 6:14-160. Let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. (On the toph, or "timbrel," see the comment upon Psalm 68:25). It was used to accompany a hymn of rejoicing by Miriam (Exodus 15:20), by Jephthah's daughter (Judges 11:34), and by David (2 Samuel 6:5).

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Let them praise
יְהַֽלְל֣וּ (yə·hal·lū)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 1984: To shine

His name
שְׁמ֣וֹ (šə·mōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 8034: A name

with dancing,
בְמָח֑וֹל (ḇə·mā·ḥō·wl)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 4234: A, dance

and make music
יְזַמְּרוּ־ (yə·zam·mə·rū-)
Verb - Piel - Imperfect - third person masculine plural
Strong's 2167: Play, to make music, celebrate in song and music

to Him
לֽוֹ׃ (lōw)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew

with tambourine
בְּתֹ֥ף (bə·ṯōp̄)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8596: A timbrel, tambourine

and harp.
וְ֝כִנּ֗וֹר (wə·ḵin·nō·wr)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 3658: A harp


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