KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Psalms 81:1–2
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Psalms 81:1
1SING aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
1¶ Sing alowd vnto God our strength: make a ioyfull noise vnto the God of Iacob.
Psalms 81:2
2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
2Take a Psalme, and bring hither the timbrell: the pleasant harpe with the psalterie.
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DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 81:1
To produce musical sounds with the voice; to celebrate, praise, or tell in song.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A deity or object of worship; when referring to the LORD, the one true God.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Power, force, firmness, ability, endurance, or that which gives support.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Full of joy; very glad; exulting.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A sound, especially a loud sound, report, or outcry; as a verb, to spread by report.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Psalms 81:2
To receive, seize, carry, accept, choose, or lay hold of, with the exact sense determined by context.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
A sacred song or hymn; a song composed on a divine subject and in praise of God.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A small hand drum or tambourine.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Cheerful; enlivening. Giving pleasure; gratifying.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A stringed musical instrument sounded by the fingers.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A stringed musical instrument used in praise and song.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
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Open the full verse study7For thus saith the Lord; Sing with gladness for Jacob, and shout among the chief of the nations: publish ye, praise ye, and say, O Lord, save thy people, the remnant of Israel.
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Open the full verse study1MAKE a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands:
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Open the full verse study1MAKE a joyful noise unto the Lord, all ye lands.
2Serve the Lord with gladness: come before his presence with singing.
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Open the full verse study13I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.
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Open the full verse study11The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
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Open the full verse study1O LORD our Lord, how excellent is thy name in all the earth! who hast set thy glory above the heavens.
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Open the full verse study7The Lord is my strength and my shield; my heart trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart greatly rejoiceth; and with my song will I praise him.
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Open the full verse study17So shall ye say unto Joseph, Forgive, I pray thee now, the trespass of thy brethren, and their sin; for they did unto thee evil: and now, we pray thee, forgive the trespass of the servants of the God of thy father. And Joseph wept when they spake unto him.
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Open the full verse study32I am the God of Abraham, and the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob? God is not the God of the dead, but of the living.
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Open the full verse study1I WILL love thee, O Lord, my strength.
2The Lord is my rock, and my fortress, and my deliverer; my God, my strength, in whom I will trust; my buckler, and the horn of my salvation, and my high tower.
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Open the full verse study1REJOICE in the Lord, O ye righteous: for praise is comely for the upright.
2Praise the Lord with harp: sing unto him with the psaltery and an instrument of ten strings.
3Sing unto him a new song; play skilfully with a loud noise.
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Open the full verse study1GOD is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble.
2Therefore will not we fear, though the earth be removed, and though the mountains be carried into the midst of the sea;
3Though the waters thereof roar and be troubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling thereof. Selah.
4There is a river, the streams whereof shall make glad the city of God, the holy place of the tabernacles of the most High.
5God is in the midst of her; she shall not be moved: God shall help her, and that right early.
6The heathen raged, the kingdoms were moved: he uttered his voice, the earth melted.
7The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah.
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Open the full verse study7Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness.
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Open the full verse study4O let the nations be glad and sing for joy: for thou shalt judge the people righteously, and govern the nations upon earth. Selah.
From verse 2
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Open the full verse study1PRAISE ye the Lord. Sing unto the Lord a new song, and his praise in the congregation of saints.
2Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.
3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
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Open the full verse study16Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom; teaching and admonishing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing with grace in your hearts to the Lord.
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Open the full verse study3Upon an instrument of ten strings, and upon the psaltery; upon the harp with a solemn sound.
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Open the full verse study19Speaking to yourselves in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart to the Lord;
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Open the full verse study20¶ And Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a timbrel in her hand; and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances.
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Open the full verse study26¶ And when they had sung an hymn, they went out into the mount of Olives.
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Open the full verse study13Is any among you afflicted? let him pray. Is any merry? let him sing psalms.
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Open the full verse study1O COME, let us sing unto the Lord: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation.
2Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms.
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