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Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, The pleasant lyre with the harp.
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Worship Is a Joyful Command
Commentators like Charles Spurgeon emphasize that worship is not merely a suggestion but a divine command, a "statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob." This call to raise a song and play instruments is presented as a joyful obligation for God's people, a "happy law" that believers should be quick and glad to obey.
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Psalms
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18th Century
Presbyterian
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, com…
19th Century
Anglican
Take a psalm. —Rather, Strike up a tune (with voice and harp) .
Bring here the timbrel.
Baptist
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…
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Take a psalm Or "lift one up" F25 ; hold up the book, and read and sing it; or rather, lift up the voice …
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. W…
