(NIV)
His brother’s name was Jubal; he was the father of all who play stringed instruments and pipes.
(ESV)
His
brother’s name was
Jubal; he was the
father of
all those who
play the
lyre and
pipe.
(NIV)
Why did you run off secretly and deceive me? Why didn’t you tell me, so that I could send you away with joy and singing to the music of tambourines and harps?
(ESV)
Why did you
flee secretly and
trick me, and did
not tell me, so that I might have
sent you away with
mirth and
songs, with
tambourine and
lyre?
(NIV)
After he was weaned, she took the boy with her, young as he was, along with a three-year-old bull, an ephah of flour and a skin of wine, and brought him to the house of the
Lord at Shiloh.
(ESV)
And when she had
weaned him, she
took him up with her, along with a
three-year-old bull,
an ephah of
flour, and a
skin of
wine, and she
brought him to the
house of the
Lord at
Shiloh. And the
child was
young.
(NIV)
‘Then you will go on from there until you reach the great tree of Tabor. Three men going up to worship God at Bethel will meet you there. One will be carrying three young goats, another three loaves of bread, and another a skin of wine.
(ESV)
Then you shall
go on from there farther and
come to the
oak of
Tabor.
Three men going up to
God at
Bethel will
meet you there,
one carrying three young goats,
another carrying three loaves of
bread, and
another carrying a
skin of
wine.
(NIV)
‘After that you will go to Gibeah of God, where there is a Philistine outpost. As you approach the town, you will meet a procession of prophets coming down from the high place with lyres, tambourines, pipes and harps being played before them, and they will be prophesying.
(ESV)
After that you shall
come to
Gibeath-elohim where there is a
garrison of the
Philistines. And
there, as soon as you
come to the
city, you will
meet a
group of
prophets coming down from the
high place with
harp,
tambourine,
flute, and
lyre before them,
prophesying.
(NIV)
Let our
lord command his servants here to search for someone who can play the lyre. He will play when the evil spirit from God comes on you, and you will feel better.’
(ESV)
Let our
lord now command your
servants who are
before you to
seek out a
man who is
skillful in
playing the
lyre, and when the
harmful spirit from
God is
upon you, he will
play it, and you will be
well.”
(NIV)
Whenever the spirit from God came on Saul, David would take up his lyre and play. Then relief would come to Saul; he would feel better, and the evil spirit would leave him.
(ESV)
And whenever the harmful
spirit from
God was upon
Saul,
David took the
lyre and
played it with his
hand. So
Saul was
refreshed and was
well, and the
harmful spirit departed from him.
(NIV)
Abigail acted quickly. She took two hundred loaves of bread, two skins of wine, five dressed sheep, five seahs of roasted grain, a hundred cakes of raisins and two hundred cakes of pressed figs, and loaded them on donkeys.
(ESV)
Then
Abigail made
haste and
took two hundred loaves and
two skins of
wine and
five sheep already
prepared and
five seahs of
parched grain and a
hundred clusters of raisins and
two hundred cakes of
figs, and
laid them on
donkeys.
(NIV)
David and all Israel were celebrating with all their might before the
Lord, with castanets, harps, lyres, tambourines, rattles and cymbals.
(ESV)
And
David and
all the
house of
Israel were
celebrating before the
Lord, with
songs and
lyres and
harps and
tambourines and
castanets and
cymbals.
(NIV)
When David had gone a short distance beyond the summit, there was Ziba, the steward of Mephibosheth, waiting to meet him. He had a string of donkeys saddled and loaded with two hundred loaves of bread, a hundred cakes of raisins, a hundred cakes of figs and a skin of wine.
(ESV)
When
David had
passed a
little beyond the
summit,
Ziba the
servant of
Mephibosheth met him, with a
couple of
donkeys saddled, bearing
two hundred loaves of bread, a
hundred bunches of
raisins, a
hundred of
summer fruits, and a
skin of
wine.
(NIV)
The king used the almug-wood to make supports for the temple of the
Lord and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. So much almug-wood has never been imported or seen since that day.)
(ESV)
And the
king made of the
almug wood supports for the
house of the
Lord and for the
king’s house, also
lyres and
harps for the
singers.
No such
almug wood has
come or been
seen to this day.
(NIV)
David and all the Israelites were celebrating with all their might before God, with songs and with harps, lyres, tambourines, cymbals and trumpets.
(ESV)
And
David and
all Israel were
celebrating before God with
all their
might, with
song and
lyres and
harps and
tambourines and
cymbals and
trumpets.
(NIV)
David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint their fellow Levites as musicians to make a joyful sound with musical instruments: lyres, harps and cymbals.
(ESV)
David also
commanded the
chiefs of the
Levites to
appoint their
brothers as the
singers who should
play loudly on
musical instruments, on
harps and
lyres and
cymbals, to
raise sounds of
joy.
(NIV)
Zechariah, Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah and Benaiah were to play the lyres according to
alamoth,
(ESV)
Zechariah Aziel,
Shemiramoth,
Jehiel,
Unni,
Eliab,
Maaseiah, and
Benaiah were to play
harps according to
Alamoth;
(NIV)
and Mattithiah, Eliphelehu, Mikneiah, Obed-Edom, Jeiel and Azaziah were to play the harps, directing according to
sheminith.
(ESV)
but
Mattithiah,
Eliphelehu,
Mikneiah,
Obed-edom,
Jeiel, and
Azaziah were to
lead with
lyres according to the
Sheminith.
(NIV)
So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the
Lord with shouts, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and of cymbals, and the playing of lyres and harps.
(ESV)
So
all Israel brought up the
ark of the
covenant of the
Lord with
shouting, to the
sound of the
horn,
trumpets, and
cymbals, and made
loud music on
harps and
lyres.
(NIV)
Asaph was the chief, and next to him in rank were Zechariah, then Jaaziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Mattithiah, Eliab, Benaiah, Obed-Edom and Jeiel. They were to play the lyres and harps, Asaph was to sound the cymbals,
(ESV)
Asaph was the
chief, and
second to him were
Zechariah,
Jeiel,
Shemiramoth,
Jehiel,
Mattithiah,
Eliab,
Benaiah,
Obed-edom, and
Jeiel, who were to
play harps and
lyres;
Asaph was to
sound the
cymbals,
(NIV)
David, together with the commanders of the army, set apart some of the sons of Asaph, Heman and Jeduthun for the ministry of prophesying, accompanied by harps, lyres and cymbals. Here is the list of the men who performed this service:
(ESV)
David and the
chiefs of the
service also
set apart for the
service the
sons of
Asaph, and of
Heman, and of
Jeduthun, who
prophesied with
lyres, with
harps, and with
cymbals. The
list of those who
did the
work and of their
duties was:
(NIV)
As for Jeduthun, from his sons:
Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah and Mattithiah, six in all, under the supervision of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied, using the harp in thanking and praising the
Lord.
(ESV)
Of
Jeduthun, the
sons of
Jeduthun:
Gedaliah,
Zeri,
Jeshaiah, Shimei,
Hashabiah,
and Mattithiah,
six,
under the direction of their
father Jeduthun, who
prophesied with the
lyre in
thanksgiving and praise to the
Lord.
(NIV)
All these men were under the supervision of their father for the music of the temple of the
Lord, with cymbals, lyres and harps, for the ministry at the house of God.
Asaph, Jeduthun and Heman were under the supervision of the king.
(ESV)
They were
all under the
direction of their
father in the
music in the
house of the
Lord with
cymbals,
harps, and
lyres for the
service of the
house of
God.
Asaph,
Jeduthun, and
Heman were
under the
order of the
king.
(NIV)
All the Levites who were musicians – Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun and their sons and relatives – stood on the east side of the altar, dressed in fine linen and playing cymbals, harps and lyres. They were accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets.
(ESV)
and
all the
Levitical singers,
Asaph,
Heman, and
Jeduthun, their
sons and
kinsmen,
arrayed in
fine linen, with
cymbals,
harps, and
lyres,
stood east of the
altar with
120 priests who were
trumpeters;
(NIV)
The king used the algum-wood to make steps for the temple of the
Lord and for the royal palace, and to make harps and lyres for the musicians. Nothing like them had ever been seen in Judah.)
(ESV)
And the
king made from the
algum wood supports for the
house of the
Lord and for the
king’s house,
lyres also and
harps for the
singers. There
never was
seen the like
of them before in the
land of
Judah.
(NIV)
They entered Jerusalem and went to the temple of the
Lord with harps and lyres and trumpets.
(ESV)
They
came to
Jerusalem with
harps and
lyres and
trumpets, to the
house of the
Lord.
(NIV)
He stationed the Levites in the temple of the
Lord with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and Gad the king’s seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the
Lord through his prophets.
(ESV)
And he
stationed the
Levites in the
house of the
Lord with
cymbals,
harps, and
lyres according to the
commandment of
David and of
Gad the
king’s seer and of
Nathan the
prophet, for the
commandment was
from the
Lord through his
prophets.
(NIV)
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from where they lived and were brought to Jerusalem to celebrate joyfully the dedication with songs of thanksgiving and with the music of cymbals, harps and lyres.
(ESV)
And at the
dedication of the
wall of
Jerusalem they
sought the
Levites in
all their
places, to
bring them to
Jerusalem to
celebrate the
dedication with
gladness, with
thanksgivings and with
singing, with
cymbals,
harps, and
lyres.
(NIV)
They sing to the music of tambourine and lyre;
they make merry to the sound of the pipe.
(ESV)
They
sing to the
tambourine and the
lyre and
rejoice to the
sound of the
pipe.
(NIV)
My lyre is tuned to mourning,
and my pipe to the sound of wailing.
(ESV)
My
lyre is turned to
mourning,
and my
pipe to the
voice of those who
weep.
(NIV)
Who has the wisdom to count the clouds?
Who can tip over the water jars of the heavens
(ESV)
Who can number the
clouds by
wisdom?
Or who can
tilt the
waterskins of the
heavens,
(NIV)
Praise the
Lord with the harp;
make music to him on the ten-stringed lyre.
(ESV)
Give thanks to the
Lord with the
lyre;
make melody to him with the
harp of
ten strings!
(NIV)
Then I will go to the altar of God,
to God, my joy and my delight.
I will praise you with the lyre,
O God, my God.
(ESV)
Then I will
go to the
altar of
God,
to
God my
exceeding joy,
and I will
praise you with the
lyre,
O
God, my
God.
(NIV)
I will turn my ear to a proverb;
with the harp I will expound my riddle:
(ESV)
I will
incline my
ear to a
proverb;
I will
solve my
riddle to the music of the
lyre.
(NIV)
Awake, my soul!
Awake, harp and lyre!
I will awaken the dawn.
(ESV)
Awake my
glory!
Awake O
harp and
lyre!
I will
awake the
dawn!
(NIV)
I will praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, my God;
I will sing praise to you with the lyre,
Holy One of Israel.
(ESV)
I will
also praise you with the
harp for your
faithfulness, O my
God;
I will
sing praises to you with the
lyre,
O
Holy One of
Israel.
(NIV)
Begin the music, strike the tambourine,
play the melodious harp and lyre.
(ESV)
Raise a
song;
sound the
tambourine,
the
sweet lyre with the
harp.
(NIV)
to the music of the ten-stringed lyre
and the melody of the harp.
(ESV)
to the music of the
lute and the harp,
to the
melody of the
lyre.
(NIV)
make music to the
Lord with the harp,
with the harp and the sound of singing,
(ESV)
Sing praises to the
Lord with the
lyre,
with the
lyre and the
sound of
melody!
(NIV)
Awake, harp and lyre!
I will awaken the dawn.
(ESV)
Awake, O
harp and
lyre!
I will
awake the
dawn!
(NIV)
There on the poplars
we hung our harps,
(ESV)
On the
willows there we
hung up our
lyres.
(NIV)
I will sing a new song to you, my God;
on the ten-stringed lyre I will make music to you,
(ESV)
I will
sing a
new song to you, O
God;
upon a
ten-stringed harp I will
play to you,
(NIV)
Sing to the
Lord with grateful praise;
make music to our God on the harp.
(ESV)
Sing to the
Lord with
thanksgiving;
make melody to our
God on the
lyre!
(NIV)
Let them praise his name with dancing
and make music to him with tambourine and harp.
(ESV)
Let them
praise his
name with
dancing,
making
melody to him with
tambourine and
lyre!
(NIV)
Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet,
praise him with the harp and lyre,
(ESV)
Praise him with
trumpet sound;
praise him with
lute and
harp!
(NIV)
They have harps and lyres at their banquets,
pipes and tambourines and wine,
but they have no regard for the deeds of the
Lord,
no respect for the work of his hands.
(ESV)
They have
lyre and
harp,
tambourine and
flute and
wine at their
feasts,
but they do
not regard the
deeds of the
Lord,
or see the
work of his
hands.
(NIV)
All your pomp has been brought down to the grave,
along with the noise of your harps;
maggots are spread out beneath you
and worms cover you.
(ESV)
Your
pomp is
brought down to
Sheol,
the
sound of your
harps;
maggots are laid as a
bed beneath you,
and
worms are your
covers.
(NIV)
My heart laments for Moab like a harp,
my inmost being for Kir Hareseth.
(ESV)
Therefore my
inner parts moan like a
lyre for
Moab,
and my
inmost self for
Kir-hareseth.
(NIV)
All the glory of his family will hang on him: its offspring and offshoots – all its lesser vessels, from the bowls to all the jars.
(ESV)
And they will
hang on him the
whole honor of his
father’s house, the
offspring and
issue,
every small vessel,
from the
cups to all the
flagons.
(NIV)
‘Take up a harp, walk through the city,
you forgotten prostitute;
play the harp well, sing many a song,
so that you will be remembered.’
(ESV)
“
Take a
harp;
go about the
city,
O
forgotten prostitute!
Make sweet melody;
sing
many songs,
that you may be
remembered.”
(NIV)
The joyful tambourines are stilled,
the noise of the revellers has stopped,
the joyful harp is silent.
(ESV)
The
mirth of the
tambourines is
stilled,
the
noise of the
jubilant has
ceased,
the
mirth of the
lyre is
stilled.
(NIV)
It will break in pieces like pottery,
shattered so mercilessly
that among its pieces not a fragment will be found
for taking coals from a hearth
or scooping water out of a cistern.’
(ESV)
and its
breaking is like
that of a
potter’s vessel that is
smashed so
ruthlessly that among its
fragments not a
shard is
found with which to
take fire from the
hearth,
or to
dip up water out of the
cistern.”
(NIV)
Every stroke the
Lord lays on them
with his punishing club
will be to the music of tambourines and harps,
as he fights them in battle with the blows of his arm.
(ESV)
And
every stroke of the
appointed staff that the
Lord lays on them will be to the sound of
tambourines and
lyres.
Battling with
brandished arm, he will
fight with them.
(NIV)
‘Say to them: “This is what the
Lord, the God of Israel, says: every wineskin should be filled with wine.” And if they say to you, “Don’t we know that every wineskin should be filled with wine?”
(ESV)
“You shall
speak to them
this word: ‘
Thus says the
Lord, the
God of
Israel, “
Every jar shall be
filled with
wine.”’ And they will
say to you, ‘Do we
not indeed know that every
jar will be
filled with
wine?’
(NIV)
But days are coming,’
declares the
Lord,
‘when I will send men who pour from pitchers,
and they will pour her out;
they will empty her pitchers
and smash her jars.
(ESV)
“
Therefore,
behold, the
days are
coming,
declares the
Lord, when I shall
send to him
pourers who will
pour him, and
empty his
vessels and
break his
jars in pieces.
(NIV)
How the precious children of Zion,
once worth their weight in gold,
are now considered as pots of clay,
the work of a potter’s hands!
(ESV)
The
precious sons of
Zion,
worth their
weight in
fine gold,
how they are
regarded as
earthen pots,
the
work of a
potter’s hands!
(NIV)
I will put an end to your noisy songs, and the music of your harps will be heard no more.
(ESV)
And I will
stop the
music of your
songs, and the
sound of your
lyres shall be
heard no more.
(NIV)
Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.
(ESV)
Take away
from me the
noise of your
songs;
to the
melody of your
harps I will
not listen.
(NIV)
You strum away on your harps like David
and improvise on musical instruments.
(ESV)
who
sing idle songs to the
sound of the
harp and like
David invent for themselves
instruments of
music,
(NIV)
Even in the case of lifeless things that make sounds, such as the pipe or harp, how will anyone know what tune is being played unless there is a distinction in the notes?
(ESV)
If even lifeless instruments, such
as the
flute or the
harp, do
not give distinct notes,
how will anyone
know what is
played?
(NIV)
And when he had taken it, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb. Each one had a harp and they were holding golden bowls full of incense, which are the prayers of God’s people.
(ESV)
And when he had
taken the
scroll, the
four living creatures
and the
twenty-four elders fell down
before the
Lamb each holding a
harp,
and golden bowls full of
incense which are the
prayers of the
saints.
(NIV)
And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of rushing waters and like a loud peal of thunder. The sound I heard was like that of harpists playing their harps.
(ESV)
And I
heard a
voice from heaven like the
roar of
many waters and like the
sound of
loud thunder. The
voice I
heard was like the sound of
harpists playing on their harps,
(NIV)
And I saw what looked like a sea of glass glowing with fire and, standing beside the sea, those who had been victorious over the beast and its image and over the number of its name. They held harps given them by God
(ESV)
And I
saw what appeared to
be a
sea of
glass mingled with
fire—and
also those who had
conquered the
beast and its image and the
number of
its name,
standing beside the
sea of
glass with harps of
God in their hands.
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