Psalms 81:2

Take a psalm— Lift up your voices in a psalm, or take up a psalm. Green.

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

LXXXI. This Ps. is probably composite. A. Psalms 81:1-4 . A Festal Hymn, specially adapted for the old New Year's Day or Feast of Trumpets (p....
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Take. psalm. . Raise. song. timbrel. Hebrew. toph. See note on Exodus 15:20 . psaltery . lute.
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Take a psalm - זמרה zimrah. I rather think that this was the name of...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Take a psalm - `raise the psalm.' And bring hither the ti...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

After a summons to celebrate the Feast of Tabernacles ( Psalms 81:1-3 ) this Ps. recalls the meaning of Israel's national festivals as memorials of t...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Take a psalm. — Rather, Strike up a tune ( with voice and harp ). Bring hither the timbrel. — Literally, Give a timbrel (or, drum ) , whic...
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Psalms 81:1-16 THE psalmist summons priests and people to a solemn festival, commemorative of Israel's deliverance from Egypt, and sets forth the...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

Sing unto God, the Deliverer Psalms 81:1-7 It is supposed that this psalm was composed for use at the great Hebrew festivals and especially at...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

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 Taber...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

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: suc...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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 t...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Ver. 2. Bring hither the timbrel ] These instruments then used...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Sing aloud unto God our strength Our refuge and defence against all our enemies. Bring hither the timbrel , &c. All which instruments were the...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

An Invitation to Praise. To the chief musician upon Gittith. A psalm of A...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

All which instruments were then prescribed and used in their solemn meetings.
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

INTRODUCTION Superscription .—“ To the chief Musician upon Gittith .” Gittith is explained in several ways. One interpretation is that it was a mus...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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 b...
Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

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...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

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 fir...
The Biblical Illustrator

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)...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION PROFESSOR CHEYNE regards this psalm as composed of "two distinct lyrical passages," accidentally thrown together (compare his the...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

A Joyful Salutation and God's Response. To the chief musician upon Gittith, to be sung to the accompaniment of the zitherlike instrument which Dav...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

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 w...
Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Colossians 3:16 ; Ephesians 5:19 ; James 5:13 ; Mark 14:26 ; Psalms 9:1 ; Psalms 92:3

² Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.

Related Commentaries of Psalms 81:2

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Spurgeon’s Verse Expositions of the Bible

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 81:2