Matthew Poole's Concise Commentary
Psalms 81:2
All which instruments were then prescribed and used in their solemn meetings.
All which instruments were then prescribed and used in their solemn meetings.
Verse Psalms 81:2. _TAKE A PSALM_] זמרה _zimrah_. I rather think that this was the name of a _musical instrument_. _BRING HITHER THE TIMBREL_] תף _toph_; some kind of _drum_ or _tom tom_. _THE PLEAS...
TAKE A PSALM - literally, “Lift up a psalm; perhaps, as we should say, “Raise the tune.” Or, it may mean, Take an ode, a hymn, a psalm, composed for the occasion, and accompany it with the instruments...
Psalms 81 Hope Revived: His Gracious Return to Israel _ 1. The blowing of the trumpet (Psalms 81:1)_ 2. His loving call to His people (Psalms 81:6) 3. Gracious results promised ...
LXXXI. This Ps. is probably composite. A. PSALMS 81:1. A FESTAL HYMN, specially adapted for the old New Year's Day or Feast of Trumpets (p. 104), which was held on the new moon of Tishri, the seventh...
TAKE. PSALM.. Raise. song. TIMBREL. Hebrew. _toph._ See note on Exodus 15:20. PSALTERY. lute....
A call to the joyous celebration of the festival, addressed to the whole congregation (Psalms 81:1), to the Levites as the appointed leaders of the Temple music (Psalms 81:2), and to the Priests, whos...
_Take a psalm_&c. Or, Raise a psalm and sound the timbrel. The timbrel, or tabret, was a tambourine or hand drum; the psaltery, like the harp, a stringed instrument....
TAKE A PSALM— _Lift up your voices in a psalm,_ or _take up a psalm._ Green....
PSALMS 81 DESCRIPTIVE TITLE A Mission-Song, to be Sung to the Northern Tribes. ANALYSIS Stanza I., Psalms 81:1-5, A Festive Celebration Invoked; in which People, Levites, and Priests can Recall the...
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. TAKE A PSALM - `raise the psalm.' AND BRING HITHER THE TIMBREL - literally, 'give' it. Or else, 'cause it to give...
After a summons to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles (Psalms 81:1) this Ps. recalls the meaning of Israel's national festivals as memorials of their deliverance from Egypt (Psalms 81:4). From Psalms...
Psalms 73:89 _GORDON CHURCHYARD_ START THE MUSIC! PSALMS 81 Jesus said, "Can the bridegroom’s friends be sad when the bridegroom is with them?" (Matthew
TAKE A PSALM. — Rather, _Strike up a tune_ (_with voice and harp_). BRING HITHER THE TIMBREL. — Literally, _Give a timbrel_ (or, _drum_)_,_ which evidently means “sound the timbrel,” and may, perhaps,...
_[Psalms 81:3]_ שְֽׂאוּ ־זִ֭מְרָה וּ תְנוּ ־תֹ֑ף...
Psalms 81:1 THE psalmist summons priests and people to a solemn festival, commemorative of Israel's deliverance from Egypt, and sets forth the lessons which that deliverance teaches, the learning of w...
SING UNTO GOD, THE DELIVERER Psalms 81:1 It is supposed that this psalm was composed for use at the great Hebrew festivals and especially at the Passover, which is referred to in Psalms 81:5; Psalms...
This is a psalm for the Feast of Trumpets. In the calendar of the Hebrews this feast prepared the way for the Day of Atonement and the Feast of Tabernacles. The first day of the seventh month was the...
_Wicked. Contrary to the law, Deuteronomy i. 17., and Leviticus xix. 15._...
It is very probable that this Psalm formed part of the religious worship in the temple on the feast days. We find several occasions of this sort: such as the feast of trumpets; Leviticus 23:24; Number...
Psalms 81, while celebrating in figure the restoration of Israel, again returns to historical ground, specially introducing Joseph, who represents the ten tribes (see Ezekiel 37:16). Otherwise Judah,...
TAKE A PSALM,.... Or "lift one up" y; hold up the book, and read and sing it; or rather, lift up the voice in singing a psalm: AND BRING HITHER THE TIMBREL; or "give one" z, put the hand to one: THE...
_Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery._ Ver. 2. _Bring hither the timbrel_] These instruments then used in God s service (as a part of the Jewish pedagogy)...
_Sing aloud unto God our strength_ Our refuge and defence against all our enemies. _Bring hither the timbrel_, &c. All which instruments were then prescribed and used in their solemn meetings. _Blow u...
A JOYFUL SALUTATION AND GOD'S RESPONSE. To the chief musician upon Gittith, to be sung to the accompaniment of the zitherlike instrument which David brought along from the Philistine city of Gath, a...
Take a psalm, the summons being addressed to the chorus of Levites to begin their songs of praise, AND BRING HITHER THE TIMBREL, THE PLEASANT HARP WITH THE PSALTERY, zither and harp being used largely...
1-7 All the worship we can render to the Lord is beneath his excellences, and our obligations to him, especially in our redemption from sin and wrath. What God had done on Israel's behalf, was kept i...
Psalms 81:2 Raise H5375 (H8798) song H2172 strike H5414 (H8798) timbrel H8596 pleasant H5273 harp H3658 lute...
Psalms 81:1. _Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob._ In these days, the Psalm would have to be altered if they are to suit the dogmas of modern thought, for «th...
We have here an exhortation to praise God; and this is always in season. Perhaps we need more stirring up to praise than to prayer, yet it ought to be as natural for us to praise God as it is for the...
CONTENTS: God chides His people for their ingratitude and pictures their happy state had they but obeyed Him. CHARACTERS: God, Asaph, Joseph, Jacob. CONCLUSION: God gives those up to their own heart...
This psalm was composed for the festival of tabernacles, when the people celebrated the deliverance from Egypt. It was a statute in Israel on the first day of the Hebrew month of _Tisri,_ or the new m...
_Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob._ A REVELATION OF THREE GREAT SUBJECTS I. True worship (verses1-5) 1. True worship is the highest happiness, which consi...
PSALM PSALM—NOTE ON PSALMS 81:1. This psalm resembles the OT prophets’ oracles, so perhaps it is best to think of it as a prophetic hymn. The primary function of the OT prophets is to challenge God’s...
INTRODUCTION _Superscription_.—“_To the chief Musician upon Gittith_.” Gittith is explained in several ways. One interpretation is that it was a musical instrument invented in Gath, or common among th...
EXPOSITION PROFESSOR CHEYNE regards this psalm as composed of "two distinct lyrical passages," accidentally thrown together (compare his theory of Psalms 19:1, Psalms 24:1, Psalms 36:1
Let's turn to Psalms 81:1-16. On the first day of the seventh month in the Jewish calendar, which, because their calendar begins, the religious calendar begins the first of April, it usually coincides...
Colossians 3:16; Ephesians 5:19; James 5:13; Mark 14:26; Psalms 9:1;...