Psalm 150:5
New International Version
praise him with the clash of cymbals, praise him with resounding cymbals.

New Living Translation
Praise him with a clash of cymbals; praise him with loud clanging cymbals.

English Standard Version
Praise him with sounding cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!

Berean Standard Bible
Praise Him with clashing cymbals; praise Him with resounding cymbals.

King James Bible
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

New King James Version
Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him with clashing cymbals!

New American Standard Bible
Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him with resounding cymbals.

NASB 1995
Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him with resounding cymbals.

NASB 1977
Praise Him with loud cymbals; Praise Him with resounding cymbals.

Legacy Standard Bible
Praise Him with resounding cymbals; Praise Him with clashing cymbals.

Amplified Bible
Praise Him with resounding cymbals; Praise Him with loud cymbals.

Christian Standard Bible
Praise him with resounding cymbals; praise him with clashing cymbals.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Praise Him with resounding cymbals; praise Him with clashing cymbals.

American Standard Version
Praise him with loud cymbals: Praise him with high sounding cymbals.

Contemporary English Version
Praise God with cymbals, with clashing cymbals.

English Revised Version
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
Praise him with loud cymbals. Praise him with crashing cymbals.

Good News Translation
Praise him with cymbals. Praise him with loud cymbals.

International Standard Version
Praise him with loud cymbals. Praise him with reverberating cymbals.

Majority Standard Bible
Praise Him with clashing cymbals; praise Him with resounding cymbals.

NET Bible
Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with clanging cymbals!

New Heart English Bible
Praise him with loud cymbals. Praise him with resounding cymbals.

Webster's Bible Translation
Praise him upon the loud cymbals: praise him upon the high sounding cymbals.

World English Bible
Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals!
Literal Translations
Literal Standard Version
Praise Him with cymbals of sounding, "" Praise Him with cymbals of shouting.

Young's Literal Translation
Praise Him with cymbals of sounding, Praise Him with cymbals of shouting.

Smith's Literal Translation
Praise ye him with ringing instruments of hearing: praise him with ringing instruments of loud noise.
Catholic Translations
Douay-Rheims Bible
Praise him on high sounding cymbals: praise him on cymbals of joy: let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.

Catholic Public Domain Version
Praise him with sweet-sounding cymbals. Praise him with cymbals of jubilation.

New American Bible
Give praise with crashing cymbals, praise him with sounding cymbals.

New Revised Standard Version
Praise him with clanging cymbals; praise him with loud clashing cymbals!
Translations from Aramaic
Lamsa Bible
Praise him upon loud cymbals; praise him with a mighty song.

Peshitta Holy Bible Translated
Praise him with loud cymbals; praise him with voice and with shouting!
OT Translations
JPS Tanakh 1917
Praise Him with the loud-sounding cymbals; Praise Him with the clanging cymbals.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
Praise him with melodious cymbals: praise him with loud cymbals.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Let Everything That Has Breath Praise the LORD
4Praise Him with tambourine and dancing; praise Him with strings and flute. 5Praise Him with clashing cymbals; praise Him with resounding cymbals. 6Let everything that has breath praise the LORD! Hallelujah!…

Cross References
2 Samuel 6:5
David and all the house of Israel were celebrating before the LORD with all kinds of wood instruments, harps, stringed instruments, tambourines, sistrums, and cymbals.

1 Chronicles 13:8
David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

1 Chronicles 15:28
So all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of the LORD with shouting, with the sounding of rams’ horns and trumpets, and with cymbals and the music of harps and lyres.

1 Chronicles 16:42
Heman and Jeduthun had with them trumpets and cymbals for the music and instruments for the songs of God. And the sons of Jeduthun were stationed at the gate.

2 Chronicles 5:12-13
all the Levitical singers—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, accompanied by 120 priests sounding trumpets. / The trumpeters and singers joined together to praise and thank the LORD with one voice. They lifted up their voices, accompanied by trumpets, cymbals, and musical instruments, in praise to the LORD: “For He is good; His loving devotion endures forever.” And the temple, the house of the LORD, was filled with a cloud

2 Chronicles 29:25-26
Hezekiah stationed the Levites in the house of the LORD with cymbals, harps, and lyres according to the command of David, of Gad the king’s seer, and of Nathan the prophet. For the command had come from the LORD through His prophets. / The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.

Ezra 3:10-11
When the builders had laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites (the sons of Asaph) with cymbals, took their positions to praise the LORD, as David king of Israel had prescribed. / And they sang responsively with praise and thanksgiving to the LORD: “For He is good; for His loving devotion to Israel endures forever.” Then all the people gave a great shout of praise to the LORD, because the foundation of the house of the LORD had been laid.

Nehemiah 12:27
At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem, the Levites were sought out from all their homes and brought to Jerusalem to celebrate the joyous dedication with thanksgiving and singing, accompanied by cymbals, harps, and lyres.

Job 21:12
singing to the tambourine and lyre and making merry at the sound of the flute.

Psalm 33:2-3
Praise the LORD with the harp; make music to Him with ten strings. / Sing to Him a new song; play skillfully with a shout of joy.

Psalm 81:1-2
For the choirmaster. According to Gittith. Of Asaph. Sing for joy to God our strength; make a joyful noise to the God of Jacob. / Lift up a song, strike the tambourine, play the sweet-sounding harp and lyre.

Psalm 98:4-6
Make a joyful noise to the LORD, all the earth; break forth—let your cry ring out, and sing praises! / Sing praises to the LORD with the lyre, in melodious song with the harp. / With trumpets and the blast of the ram’s horn shout for joy before the LORD, the King.

Psalm 144:9
I will sing to You a new song, O God; on a harp of ten strings I will make music to You—

Psalm 149:3
Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp.

Isaiah 38:20
The LORD will save me; we will play songs on stringed instruments all the days of our lives in the house of the LORD.


Treasury of Scripture

Praise him on the loud cymbals: praise him on the high sounding cymbals.

the loud cymbals

1 Chronicles 15:16,19,28
And David spake to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brethren to be the singers with instruments of musick, psalteries and harps and cymbals, sounding, by lifting up the voice with joy…

1 Chronicles 16:5
Asaph the chief, and next to him Zechariah, Jeiel, and Shemiramoth, and Jehiel, and Mattithiah, and Eliab, and Benaiah, and Obededom: and Jeiel with psalteries and with harps; but Asaph made a sound with cymbals;

1 Chronicles 25:1,6
Moreover David and the captains of the host separated to the service of the sons of Asaph, and of Heman, and of Jeduthun, who should prophesy with harps, with psalteries, and with cymbals: and the number of the workmen according to their service was: …

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Psalm 150
1. An exhortation to praise God
3. With all kinds of instruments














Praise Him with clashing cymbals
Praise Him
The call to "praise" is a central theme throughout the Psalms, and here it is a command to glorify God with exuberance and joy. The Hebrew word for "praise" is "halal," which means to boast, celebrate, or commend. This word is the root of "Hallelujah," meaning "Praise the Lord." In the context of Psalm 150, it is a call to all creation to acknowledge God's greatness and majesty. The act of praising God is not just a verbal expression but a heartfelt acknowledgment of His sovereignty and goodness.

with clashing cymbals
The use of musical instruments in worship is a recurring theme in the Psalms, and "clashing cymbals" are mentioned specifically here. The Hebrew word for "cymbals" is "tseltselim," which refers to a percussion instrument that produces a loud, resonant sound. In ancient Israel, cymbals were used in temple worship to accompany singing and other instruments, creating a vibrant and dynamic atmosphere of praise. The "clashing" nature of the cymbals suggests a powerful, unrestrained expression of worship, emphasizing the grandeur and awe of God's presence. Historically, cymbals were part of the Levitical orchestra, as seen in 1 Chronicles 15:16, where David appointed Levites to play various instruments, including cymbals, to celebrate the Ark of the Covenant's return. This highlights the importance of music in worship and the use of all available means to glorify God.

(5) Cymbals.--Heb., tseltselim (2Samuel 6:5), a word evidently formed to express the sound of the instrument. Two kinds are evidently indicated in this verse, the "loud" cymbals (literally, cymbals of hearing), and "high-sounding" (literally, of tumult). As the Arabs use at present a larger and smaller instrument (see Bible Educator, 2, 211, 311), it is possible that the same distinction is made here, but which would be the larger instrument it is impossible from the Hebrew to determine.

Verse 5. - Praise him upon the loud cymbals; praise him upon the high-sounding cymbals. "We can hardly," says Professor Cheyne, "venture to distinguish two kinds of cymbals on the ground of these two epithet" The mention of "cymbals" is reserved to the last, as being the instrument of music most expressive of joy and jubilation. It completes the musical climax, as ver. 6 completes the ideal one.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
Praise Him
הַֽלְל֥וּהוּ (hal·lū·hū)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1984: To shine

with clashing
שָׁ֑מַע (šā·ma‘)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 8088: Something heard, a sound, rumor, announcement, audience

cymbals;
בְצִלְצְלֵי־ (ḇə·ṣil·ṣə·lê-)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6767: A clatter, whirring, a cricket, a harpoon, a cymbal

praise Him
הַֽ֝לְל֗וּהוּ (hal·lū·hū)
Verb - Piel - Imperative - masculine plural | third person masculine singular
Strong's 1984: To shine

with resounding
תְרוּעָֽה׃ (ṯə·rū·‘āh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 8643: Clamor, acclamation of joy, a battle-cry, clangor, of trumpets, as an alarum

cymbals.
בְּֽצִלְצְלֵ֥י (bə·ṣil·ṣə·lê)
Preposition-b | Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 6767: A clatter, whirring, a cricket, a harpoon, a cymbal


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