Psalm 81

Psalms · Chapter 81

Psalms 81:2

1Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.5This he ordained in Joseph for a testimony, when he went out through the land of Egypt: where I heard a language that I understood not.6I removed his shoulder from the burden: his hands were delivered from the pots.7Thou calledst in trouble, and I delivered thee; I answered thee in the secret place of thunder: I proved thee at the waters of Meribah. Selah.8Hear, O my people, and I will testify unto thee: O Israel, if thou wilt hearken unto me;9There shall no strange god be in thee; neither shalt thou worship any strange god.10I am the LORD thy God, which brought thee out of the land of Egypt: open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it.11But my people would not hearken to my voice; and Israel would none of me.12So I gave them up unto their own hearts’ lust: and they walked in their own counsels.13Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and Israel had walked in my ways!14I should soon have subdued their enemies, and turned my hand against their adversaries.15The haters of the LORD should have submitted themselves unto him: but their time should have endured for ever.16He should have fed them also with the finest of the wheat: and with honey out of the rock should I have satisfied thee.

King James Version (1769)

Other translations

VerseKJVBSBASV
2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.Raise a song, and bring hither the timbrel, The pleasant harp with the psaltery.

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Original Hebrew words

EnglishHebrewSay itStrong'sMeaning
lift upשְֽׂאוּ־se-'u-H5375G
to exalt

מִתְנַשֵּׂא (mit.nas.se) (Hithpael) one who exalts himself A grammatical form of na.sa (נָשָׂא ": raise" H5375)

musicזִ֭מְרָהZIM-rahH2172
melody

זִמְרָה (zim.rah) music, melody, song

and beatוּתְנוּ־u-te-nu-H5414M
to give: give

נָתַן (na.tan) : give/deliver/send/produce 1) to give, put, set 1a) (Qal) 1a1) to give, bestow, grant, permit, ascribe, employ, devote, consecrate, dedicate, pay wages, sell, exchange, lend, commit, entrust, give over, deliver up, yield produce, occasion, produce, requite to, report, mention, utter, stretch out, extend 1a2) to put, set, put on, put upon, set, appoint, assign, designate 1a3) to make, constitute 1b) (Niphal) 1b1) to be given, be bestowed, be provided, be entrusted to, be granted to, be permitted, be issued, be published, be uttered, be assigned 1b2) to be set, be put, be made, be inflicted …

a tambourineתֹ֑ףTofH8596
tambourine

תֹּף (toph) timbrel, tambourine

a harpכִּנּ֖וֹרki-NORH3658
lyre

כִּנּוֹר (kin.nor) lyre, harp

pleasantנָעִ֣יםna-'IMH5273B
musical

נָעִים (na.im) singing, sweetly sounding, musical

withעִם־'im-H5973A
with

עִם (im) 1) with 1a) with 1b) against 1c) toward 1d) as long as

a lyreנָֽבֶל׃NA-velH5035B
harp

נֵ֫בֶל (ne.vel) harp, lute, guitar, musical instrument

Words and meanings from STEPBible data (Tyndale House, Cambridge, CC BY 4.0). The capitalized syllable is the stressed one.