Psalms 81:2

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 forth its sound' (Maurer). WITH THE PSALTERY - or 'lyre;' Hebrew, naabel (H5035) (note, Psalms 33:2)....

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 in remembrance by public solemnities. To make a deliverance appear more gracious, more glorious, it is good to observe all that makes the trouble we are delivered from appear more grievous. We ought never to forget the base and ruinous drudgery to which Satan, our oppressor, brought us. But when, in distress of conscience, we are led to cry for deliverance, the Lord answers our prayers, and sets us at liberty. Convictions of sin, and trials by affliction, prove his regard to his people. If the Jews, on their solemn feast-days, were thus to call to mind their redemption out of Egypt, much more ought we, on the Christian sabbath, to call to mind a more glorious redemption, wrought out for us by...

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 PLEASANT HARP_] כנור _kinnor_. Probably a _sistrum_, or something like it. A STRINGED instrument. _WITH THE PSALTERY._] נבל _nebel_, the _nabla_. The _cithara,_ _Septuagint_....

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 of music which are specified. AND BRING HITHER THE TIMBREL - For the purpose of praise. On the meaning of this word rendered “timbrel” - תף _tôph_ - see the notes at Isaiah 5:12. THE PLEASANT HARP - On the word here rendered “harp” - כנור _kinnôr_ - see also the notes at Isaiah 5:12. The word translated “pleasant” - נעים _nâ‛ı̂ym_ - means properly pleasant, agreeable, sweet,...

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, Psalms 55:1, Psalms 77:1, etc.); and certainly there is more reason for this than can be adduced for his other separations. It is difficult to trace any connection between the joyous opening strophe (Psalms 81:1) and the sad and chastened

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 PLEASANT HARP WITH THE PSALTERY; make use of all these musical instruments in singing, and so make an agreeable melody: these were used in the times of the Old Testament, and were typical of the spiritual joy and melody in the heart, expressed by vocal singing, under the New Testament; see Revelation 5:8. y שאן "attollite", Piscator; "tollite", Cocceius, Amama, Gejerus. z תנו "date", Pagninus, Montanus, c....

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 birds to sing. Thus the Psalm begins, Psalms 81:1. _Sing aloud unto God our strength:_ Yes, the strength which the Lord gives you should be spent in praising him. «Sing aloud.» Throw your whole soul into it. If the Lord makes you strong, then give your strength back to him in sacred song: «Sing aloud unto God our strength.» Psalms 81:1. _Make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob._ Other gods, such as Moloch, and Ashtaroth, are worshipped with mournful cries and sorrowful lamentations, but the God of Jacob, the God that heareth prayer, the God of salvation, the Go

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 (Psalms 81:13) Hope has revived and singing is commanded. What interests us most is the call to blow the trumpet in the new moon. The blowing of the trumpet, in the feast of trumpets (Leviticus 23:1), marks the beginning of Israel's New Year. Dispensationally it stands for the regathering of Israel and is followed by the day of atonement, that f

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 month, and for the Feast of Tabernacles (pp. 103f.) at the full moon of the same month. The old New Year in the autumn, when the cycle of agricultural work was complete, is to be distinguished from the Babylonian New Year in the spring month of Nisan (see p, 118, Leviticus 23:24 ff. and Numbers 29). Possibly Psalms 81 A is a mere fragment. B is different in tone and subject. It relates (Psalms 81:5) God's care for His people in Egypt and the wilderness, ...

TAKE. PSALM.. Raise. song. TIMBREL. Hebrew. _toph._ See note on Exodus 15:20. PSALTERY. lute....