Praise God with tambourines and dancing!\par Praise him with stringed instruments and flutes!\par
They sing and dance\par to the sound of harps and flutes.\par
My harp is tuned to play sad songs.\par
Lord, I will sing a new song\par about the wonderful things you do.\par I will praise you\par and play the harp with ten strings.\par
Let those people praise God by dancing\par and playing their tambourines and harps.\par
Play the lyre {\cf2\super [204]} and praise the Lord!\par Play to the Lord on the ten-stringed harp.\par
Your clothes smell like the sweet spices\par myrrh, aloes, and cassia.\par From here in palaces decorated with ivory,\par comes music to entertain you.\par
God, it is good to play music for you\par on ten-stringed instruments,\par harps, and lyres. {\cf2\super [519]} \par
Then Aaron’s sister, the woman prophet Miriam, took a tambourine. Miriam and the women began singing and dancing. Miriam repeated the words,
\{So I say:\}\par “The Lord saved me.\par So we will sing and play songs\par in the Lord’s temple all our lives.”\par
The Lord, my Master,\par gives me my strength.\par He helps me run fast like a deer.\par He leads me safely on the mountains.\par