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Sing joyfully to God our strength;(A)
    raise loud shouts to the God of Jacob!
Take up a melody, sound the timbrel,
    the pleasant lyre with a harp.

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Begin the music, strike the timbrel,(A)
    play the melodious harp(B) and lyre.(C)

Sound the ram’s horn(D) at the New Moon,(E)
    and when the moon is full, on the day of our festival;

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So singers and dancers:
    “All my springs are in you.”(A)

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As they make music(A) they will sing,
    “All my fountains(B) are in you.”

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Let them praise his name in dance,
    make music with tambourine and lyre.[a](A)

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Footnotes

  1. 149:3 Make music with tambourine and lyre: the verse recalls the great exodus hymn of Ex 15:20.

Let them praise his name with dancing(A)
    and make music to him with timbrel and harp.(B)

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Give praise with blasts upon the horn,(A)
    praise him with harp and lyre.
Give praise with tambourines and dance,
    praise him with strings and pipes.(B)
Give praise with crashing cymbals,
    praise him with sounding cymbals.

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Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,(A)
    praise him with the harp and lyre,(B)
praise him with timbrel and dancing,(C)
    praise him with the strings(D) and pipe,(E)
praise him with the clash of cymbals,(F)
    praise him with resounding cymbals.

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while David and all the house of Israel danced before the Lord with all their might, with singing, and with lyres, harps, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.(A)

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David and all Israel were celebrating(A) with all their might before the Lord, with castanets,[a] harps, lyres, timbrels, sistrums and cymbals.(B)

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Footnotes

  1. 2 Samuel 6:5 Masoretic Text; Dead Sea Scrolls and Septuagint (see also 1 Chron. 13:8) songs