Psalms 81 · Verse 3

Psalms 81:3

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
Psalms 81:3, King James Version

Psalms 81:3 in other translations

BSBSound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and at the full moon on the day of our Feast.
WEBBlow the trumpet at the New Moon, at the full moon, on our feast day.
ASVBlow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast-day.
YLTBlow in the month a trumpet, In the new moon, at the day of our festival,
DARBYBlow the trumpet at the new moon, at the set time, on our feast day:
BBELet the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:
WebsterBlow the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

What does Psalms 81:3 mean?

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
3. the new moon--or the month. the time appointed--(Compare Pr 7:20).

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain

Adam Clarke's Commentary
Verse 3 Blow up the trumpet - שופר shophar, a species of horn. Certainly a wind instrument, as the two last were stringed instruments. Perhaps some chanted a psalm in recitativo, while all these instruments vere used as accompaniments. In a representative system of religion, such as the Jewish, there must have been much outside work, all emblematical of better things: no proof that such things should be continued under the Gospel dispensation, where outsides have disappeared, shadows flown away, and the substance alone is presented to the hearts of mankind. He must be ill off for proofs in iavour of instrumental music in the Church of Christ, who has recourse to practices under the Jewish ritual. The feast of the new moon was always proclaimed by sound of trumpet. Of the ceremonies on this occasion I have given a full account in my Discourse on the Eucharist. For want of astronomical knowledge, the poor Jews were put to sad shifts to know the real time of the new moon. They generally sent persons to the top of some hill or mountain about the time which, according to their supputations, the new moon should appear. The first who saw it was to give immediate notice to the Sanhedrin; they closely examined the reporter as to his credibility, and whether his information agreed with their calculations. If all was found satisfactory, the president proclaimed the new moon by shouting out מקדש mikkodesh! "It is consecrated." This word was repeated twice aloud by the people; and was then proclaimed every where by blowing of horns, or what is called the sound of trumpets. Among the Hindoos some feasts are announced by the sound of the conch or sacred shell.

Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Psalms 81:1-7

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…

Read the full comment on Psalms 81:1-7 →

Psalms 81:3 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.

תִּקְע֣וּtik.'UblowH8628
בַחֹ֣דֶשׁva.Cho.deshat the new moonH2320
שׁוֹפָ֑רsho.Fara ram's hornH7782
בַּ֝כֵּ֗סֶהba.Ke.sehat the full moonH3677
לְי֣וֹםle.Yomto [the] day ofH3117
חַגֵּֽנוּ\׃cha.Ge.nufestival ourH2282

Source: STEPBible TAHOT/TAGNT (Tyndale House, CC BY 4.0).

Cross references for Psalms 81:3

  • Leviticus 23:24-25

    Speak unto the children of Israel, saying, In the seventh month, in the first day of the month, shall ye have a sabbath, a memorial of blowing of trumpets, an holy convocation. Ye shall do no servile work therein: but ye shall offer an offering made by fire unto the Lord.

  • Numbers 15:3

    And will make an offering by fire unto the Lord, a burnt offering, or a sacrifice in performing a vow, or in a freewill offering, or in your solemn feasts, to make a sweet savour unto the Lord, of the herd, or of the flock:

  • 2 Chronicles 2:4

    Behold, I build an house to the name of the Lord my God, to dedicate it to him, and to burn before him sweet incense, and for the continual shewbread, and for the burnt offerings morning and evening, on the sabbaths, and on the new moons, and on the solemn feasts of the Lord our God. This is an ordinance for ever to Israel.

  • Numbers 10:1-10

    And the Lord spake unto Moses, saying, Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. …

  • Deuteronomy 16:15

    Seven days shalt thou keep a solemn feast unto the Lord thy God in the place which the Lord shall choose: because the Lord thy God shall bless thee in all thine increase, and in all the works of thine hands, therefore thou shalt surely rejoice.

  • 2 Chronicles 13:14

    And when Judah looked back, behold, the battle was before and behind: and they cried unto the Lord, and the priests sounded with the trumpets.

  • Nahum 1:15

    Behold upon the mountains the feet of him that bringeth good tidings, that publisheth peace! O Judah, keep thy solemn feasts, perform thy vows: for the wicked shall no more pass through thee; he is utterly cut off.

  • 1 Chronicles 16:42

    And with them Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those that should make a sound, and with musical instruments of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were porters.

  • 2 Chronicles 5:12

    Also the Levites which were the singers, all of them of Asaph, of Heman, of Jeduthun, with their sons and their brethren, being arrayed in white linen, having cymbals and psalteries and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them an hundred and twenty priests sounding with trumpets:)

  • 1 Chronicles 16:6

    Benaiah also and Jahaziel the priests with trumpets continually before the ark of the covenant of God.

  • Psalms 98:6

    With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the Lord, the King.

  • Numbers 28:11

    And in the beginnings of your months ye shall offer a burnt offering unto the Lord; two young bullocks, and one ram, seven lambs of the first year without spot;

Ranked by reader votes · OpenBible.info cross references (CC BY).

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Blow.
98:6; Nu 10:1-9; 1Ch 15:24; 16:6,42; 2Ch 5:12; 13:12,14
new.
Le 23:24,25; Nu 10:10; 28:11; 2Ki 4:23; Col 2:16
solemn.
Nu 15:3; De 16:15; 2Ch 2:4; 8:13; La 2:6; Na 1:15

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (Samuel Bagster, c. 1836) · public domain

Context

  • Psalms 81:2

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

  • Psalms 81:3

    Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

  • Psalms 81:4

    For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.

Read all of Psalms 81

Psalms 81:3 in other languages

Spanish
Reina-Valera 1909
Tocad la trompeta en la nueva luna, en el día señalado, en el día de nuestra solemnidad.
French
Bible J.N. Darby 1885
Entonnez le cantique, et faites résonner le tambourin, la harpe agréable, avec le luth.
German
Elberfelder 1871
Stoßet am Neumonde in die Posaune, am Vollmonde zum Tage unseres Festes!
Latin
Clementine Vulgate
Judicate egeno et pupillo; humilem et pauperem justificate.