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2Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. …
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. …
I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.
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.
And 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:
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-11)Four things the psalmist expresses in these verses: I. The great desire he had that God might be praised. He did not think he did it so well himself, but that he wished others also might be employed in this work; the more the better, in this concert: it is the more like heaven. 1. Holy joy is the heart and soul of praise, and that is here pressed upon all good people (Ps. 33:1): Rejoice in the Lor…
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