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Psalms 150:4
Praise Him with the timbrel, a form of tambourine, and dance, rather, the pipe; praise Him with stringed instruments and organs, the latter being a series of graduated pipes used by shepherds.
Praise Him with the timbrel, a form of tambourine, and dance, rather, the pipe; praise Him with stringed instruments and organs, the latter being a series of graduated pipes used by shepherds.
Verse Psalms 150:4. _PRAISE HIM WITH THE TIMBREL_] תף _toph, drum, tabret_, or _tomtom_, or _tympanum_ of the ancients; a skin stretched over a broad hoop; perhaps something like the _tambarine_. Angl...
PRAISE HIM WITH THE TIMBREL - Hebrew, תף _tôph_. See this described in the notes at Isaiah 5:12. It is rendered tabret and tabrets in Genesis 31:27; 1Sa 10:5;...
PSALM 144-150 THE HALLELUJAH CHORUS The five Psalms with which this marvellous book closeth are all Psalms of praise. The word “praise” is found in the Hebrew thirty-seven times. Each one of these Ps...
CL. Each book ends with a doxology. Here we have a much longer doxology, which closes Book V and the whole Psalter also. The praise of God begins from His sanctuary, _i.e._ probably from His sanctuary...
TIMBREL. drum. See note on Exodus 15:20. ORGANS. pipe, or reed (singular, never pl)....
_with the timbrel and dance_ See on Psalms 149:3. The P.B.V. _cymbals_seems to be a slip of Coverdale's, which was not corrected in the Great Bible, as he renders _tôph_correctly by _tabret_, i.e. a s...
PSALMS 150 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE An Expansion and Enforcement of the Public Reader's Invitation to the People to Join in the Responses in the Temple-Worship. ANALYSIS 1. The Public Reader's Invitation_...
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. PRAISE HIM WITH THE TIMBREL AND DANCE - (Psalms 149:3.) The timbrel accompanied the dance (Exodus 15:20;...
This is 'the grand Finale of the spiritual concert,' and worthily closes not only this little Hallelujah group, but the whole Psalter....
TIMBREL] i.e. _Toph,_ a circlet of wood covered with skin and ornamented with brass bells; tambourine. STRINGED INSTRUMENTS] i.e. _Minnim,_ properly, 'strings,' i.e. of a harp. ORGANS] RV 'the pipe,'...
Psalms 107:150 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ GOD IS THE BEST! PSALMS 150 THE LAST *HALLELUJAH PSALM Jesus said, "If people *held their *peace, the stones would immediately start shouting" ...
TIMBREL AND DANCE. — See Psalms 149:3. STRINGED INSTRUMENTS. — _Minnîm._ Literally, _parts,_ so _threads,_ so here, as in LXX. and Vulg., “with” or “on strings.” (See Note, Psalms 45:9.) ORGANS. — He...
הַֽ֭לְלוּהוּ בְ תֹ֣ף וּ מָחֹ֑ול הַֽ֝לְל֗וּהוּ...
Psalms 150:1 THIS noble close of the Psalter rings out one clear note of praise, as the end of all the many moods and experiences recorded in its wonderful sighs and songs. Tears, groans, wailings for...
THE PRAISE-SONGS OF GOD'S PEOPLE Psalms 149:1-9; Psalms 150:1-6 Israel was formed into a nation and delivered from Babylon, that her singers should lead the praises of mankind, and her teachers pr...
This psalm which concludes the book, and all the Psalter as final doxology, is the most comprehensive, and illuminative illustration of perfect praise in the whole Psalter. In our analysis of it as do...
_Choir....Strings. Unity and mortification are requisite to make our praises acceptable, as strings are made of the bowels of beasts. (Worthington)_...
Psalms 150 is a general closing summons to praise Jehovah only, remark, it is now freely in His sanctuary, as well as in the firmament of His power in His sanctuary, with all the various instruments o...
PRAISE HIM WITH THE TIMBREL AND DANCE,.... Or "pipe" u; Psalms 149:3; PRAISE HIM WITH STRINGED INSTRUMENTS; or divers "kinds" w of instruments not named, as R. Saadiah Gaon; and which, as Aben Ezra...
Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Ver. 4. _Praise him with the timbrel and dance_] Or, pipe. But these are ancient things (as it is said in anoth...
_Praise him with the sound of the trumpet_, &c. “It is impossible for us to distinguish,” says Dr. Horne, “and describe the several sorts of musical instruments here mentioned, as the Hebrews themselv...
DANCE: Or, Pipe...
No text from Poole on this verse....
Psalms 150:4 Praise H1984 (H8761) timbrel H8596 dance H4234 Praise H1984 (H8761) instruments H4482 flutes H5748...
Psalms 150:1. _Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary:_ Notice how, in this last Psalm, it is praise, praise, praise, all the way through. I think we have the word «praise» some thirteen tim...
CONTENTS: The psalmist would fill all the world with God's praises. CHARACTERS: God. CONCLUSION: What have we our breath for but to spend it in praising God and how can we spend it better? Since we...
The full choir, the full band, and the full heart, are here exhorted to praise the Lord. Surely this, when holy prophets joined in the worship, must resemble heaven itself. But oh how can drunkards, s...
_Praise Him with the sound of the trumpet._ MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS IN WORSHIP 1. Albeit the typical ceremonies of musical instruments in God’s public worship, belonging to the pedagogy of the Church, in...
_Praise God in His sanctuary._ WORSHIP I. Its spirit is exultation. Is there gratitude in it? Yes, gratitude of the highest type and degree, and gratitude is an element of joy. Is there admiration in...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 150:1. This hymn closes the Psalter with its call for “everything that has breath” to praise the Lord with every kind of jubilant accompaniment. The list of musical instrume...
PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 150:3 Praising God fully requires more than human voices. It also requires instruments as varied as TRUMPET, LUTE, HARP, strings
INTRODUCTION Dean Perowne speaks of this Psalm as “the great closing Hallelujah, or Doxology, of the Psalter, in which every kind of musical instrument is to hear its part as well as the voice of man,...
EXPOSITION COMMENTATORS generally are agreed that this is a most noble psalm, a fit conclusion to the noble collection which here terminates. Professor Cheyne says, "Psalms 150:1 closes this Halleluja...
Now, again, the final psalm is an exhortation of praise and to praise the Lord in unusual ways, as far as we firstly perhaps are concerned. Praise ye the LORD. Praise God in his sanctuary: praise him...
Exodus 15:20; Habakkuk 3:19; Isaiah 38:20; Job 30:31; Psalms 144:9;...