Praise the LORD with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery [and] an instrument of ten strings.

Ver. 2. Praise the Lord with harp] Or cittern, Jubal's invention, Genesis 4:21, much used by David and others of old under the Jewish pedagogy, as a help to devotion, as were also other musical instruments, here and elsewhere mentioned. Now it is otherwise; the best melody is to sing psalms with grace in our hearts; and for other music, when Aristotle was asked what he thought of it, he answered, Iovem nec canere, neque citharam pulsare, that Jupiter regarded it not.

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