Psalms 33 · Verse 2

Psalms 33:2

Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
Psalms 33:2, King James Version

Psalms 33:2 in other translations

BSBPraise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings.
WEBGive thanks to the LORD with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
ASVGive thanks unto Jehovah with the harp: Sing praises unto him with the psaltery of ten strings.
YLTGive ye thanks to Jehovah with a harp, With psaltery of ten strings sing praise to Him,
DARBYGive thanks unto Jehovah with the harp; sing psalms unto him with the ten-stringed lute.
BBEGive praise to the Lord on the corded instrument; make melody to him with instruments of music.
WebsterPraise the LORD with harp: sing to him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.

What does Psalms 33:2 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Psalms 33:1-3

Psa 33:1-22. A call to lively and joyous praise to God for His glorious attributes and works, as displayed in creation, and His general and special providence, in view of which, the Psalmist, for all the pious, professes trust and joy and invokes God's mercy. 1-3. The sentiment falls in with Psa 32:11 (compare 1Co 14:15). The instruments (Psa 92:3; 144:9) do not exclude the voice.

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Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 2 Praise the Lord with harp - כנור kinnor; probably something like our harp: but Calmet thinks it the ancient testudo, or lyre with three strings. The psalter - נבל nebel. Our translation seems to make a third instrument in this place, by rendering עשור asor, an instrument of ten strings; whereas they should both be joined together, for נבל עשור nebel-asor signifies the nebal, or nabla, with ten strings, or holes. Calmet supposes this to have resembled our harp. In one of Kennicott's MSS., this Psalm begins with the second verse.

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Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 33:1-11

Holy joy is the heart and soul of praise, and that is here pressed upon the righteous. Thankful praise is the breath and language of holy joy. Religious songs are proper expressions of thankful praise. Every endowment we possess, should be employed with all our skill and earnestness in God's service. His promises are all wise and good. His word is right, and therefore we are only in the right when we agree with it…

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Psalms 33:2 in the original Hebrew

Word-by-word with transliteration, English gloss and Strong's number. Tap a number for the full definition and every place the word is used.

הוֹד֣וּho.Dugive thanksH3034
לַיהוָ֣הla.Yah.wehto YahwehH3068
בְּכִנּ֑וֹרbe.khi.Norwith harpH3658
בְּנֵ֥בֶלbe.Ne.velwith lyre ofH5035
עָ֝שׂ֗וֹרa.SortenH6218
זַמְּרוּ\־za.me.ru-make musicH2167
לֽוֹ\׃loto him

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Cross references for Psalms 33:2

  • Psalms 150:3-6

    Praise him with the sound of the trumpet: praise him with the psaltery and harp. Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs. Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals. Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord.

  • Psalms 98:4-5

    Make a joyful noise unto the Lord, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. Sing unto the Lord with the harp; with the harp, and the voice of a psalm.

  • Psalms 144:9

    I will sing a new song unto thee, O God: upon a psaltery and an instrument of ten strings will I sing praises unto thee.

  • Exodus 15:20

    And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.

  • 1 Chronicles 25:6

    All these were under the hands of their father for song in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, psalteries, and harps, for the service of the house of God, according to the king’s order to Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman.

  • Revelation 5:8

    And when he had taken the book, the four beasts and four and twenty elders fell down before the Lamb, having every one of them harps, and golden vials full of odours, which are the prayers of saints.

  • 1 Chronicles 25:3

    Of Jeduthun: the sons of Jeduthun; Gedaliah, and Zeri, and Jeshaiah, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied with a harp, to give thanks and to praise the Lord.

  • Revelation 14:2

    And I heard a voice from heaven, as the voice of many waters, and as the voice of a great thunder: and I heard the voice of harpers harping with their harps:

  • Psalms 92:3

    Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.

  • Psalms 71:22

    I will also praise thee with the psaltery, even thy truth, O my God: unto thee will I sing with the harp, O thou Holy One of Israel.

  • Psalms 81:2-3

    Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery. Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

  • 1 Chronicles 15:28

    Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the Lord with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, making a noise with psalteries and harps.

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Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Praise.
81:2,3; 92:3; 98:4,5; 144:9; 149:3; 150:3-6; Ex 15:20; 2Sa 6:5
1Ch 15:16,28; 25:3,6; Re 5:8; 14:2
with the psaltery.{Benaivel âsor,} rather, "with the ten-stringed {nabla;}" see on 1 Ch 13:8.

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Context

  • Psalms 33:1

    Rejoice in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.

  • Psalms 33:2

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

  • Psalms 33:3

    Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.

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Psalms 33:2 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909		Celebrad á Jehová con arpa: cantadle con salterio y decacordio.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885		Célébrez l’ Éternel avec la harpe; chantez ses louanges sur le luth à dix cordes;
German
Elberfelder 1871		Preiset Jehova mit der Laute; singet ihm Psalmen mit der Harfe von zehn Saiten!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate		Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore; semper laus ejus in ore meo.