Psalm 149:3

New English Translation

Let them praise his name with dancing! Let them sing praises to him to the accompaniment of the tambourine and harp!

Cross References

2 Samuel 6:14

Now David, wearing a linen ephod, was dancing with all his strength before the Lord.

2 Samuel 6:16

As the ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him.

1 Chronicles 16:42

Heman and Jeduthun were in charge of the music, including the trumpets, cymbals, and the other musical instruments used in praising God. The sons of Jeduthun guarded the entrance.

1 Chronicles 25:6

All of these were under the supervision of their fathers; they were musicians in the Lord’s temple, playing cymbals and stringed instruments as they served in God’s temple. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were under the supervision of the king.

2 Chronicles 20:28

They entered Jerusalem to the sound of stringed instruments and trumpets and proceeded to the temple of the Lord.

2 Chronicles 29:25

King Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the Lord’s temple with cymbals and stringed instruments, just as David, Gad the king’s prophet, and Nathan the prophet had ordered. (The Lord had actually given these orders through his prophets.)

Ezra 3:10

When the builders established the Lord’s temple, the priests, ceremonially attired and with their clarions, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with their cymbals, stood to praise the Lord according to the instructions left by King David of Israel.

Psalm 30:11

Then you turned my lament into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and covered me with joy.

Psalm 33:2

Give thanks to the Lord with the harp! Sing to him to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument!

Psalm 81:2

Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!

Psalm 81:3

Sound the ram’s horn on the day of the new moon, and on the day of the full moon when our festival begins.

Psalm 87:7

As for the singers, as well as the pipers – all of them sing within your walls.

Exodus 15:20

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a hand-drum in her hand, and all the women went out after her with hand-drums and with dances.

Jeremiah 31:13

The Lord says, “At that time young women will dance and be glad. Young men and old men will rejoice. I will turn their grief into gladness. I will give them comfort and joy in place of their sorrow.

Jeremiah 31:4

I will rebuild you, my dear children Israel, so that you will once again be built up. Once again you will take up the tambourine and join in the happy throng of dancers.

Judges 11:34

When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter.