Job 21:12

World English Bible (2000)

They sing to the tambourine and harp, and rejoice at the sound of the pipe.

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  • Gen 4:21 : 21 His brother's name was Jubal, who was the father of all who handle the harp and pipe.
  • Isa 5:12 : 12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.
  • Amos 6:4-6 : 4 Who lie on beds of ivory, and stretch themselves on their couches, and eat the lambs out of the flock, and the calves out of the midst of the stall; 5 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David; 6 who drink wine in bowls, and anoint themselves with the best oils; but they are not grieved for the affliction of Joseph.
  • Isa 22:13 : 13 and behold, joy and gladness, killing cattle and killing sheep, eating flesh and drinking wine: "Let us eat and drink, for tomorrow we will die."
  • Gen 31:27 : 27 Why did you flee secretly, and deceive me, and didn't tell me, that I might have sent you away with mirth and with songs, with tambourine and with harp;

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  • 11 They send forth their little ones like a flock. Their children dance.

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    2 Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful in their King.

    3 Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!

  • Ps 150:3-5
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    3 Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!

    4 Praise him with tambourine and dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and flute!

    5 Praise him with loud cymbals! Praise him with resounding cymbals!

  • Ps 81:1-2
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    1 Sing aloud to God, our strength! Make a joyful shout to the God of Jacob!

    2 Raise a song, and bring here the tambourine, the pleasant lyre with the harp.

  • 12 The harp, lyre, tambourine, and flute, with wine, are at their feasts; but they don't respect the work of Yahweh, neither have they considered the operation of his hands.

  • 25 The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, in the midst of the ladies playing with tambourines,

  • 5 who strum on the strings of a harp; who invent for themselves instruments of music, like David;

  • 8 David and all Israel played before God with all their might, even with songs, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with cymbals, and with trumpets.

  • 28 They came to Jerusalem with stringed instruments and harps and trumpets to the house of Yahweh.

  • 8 The mirth of tambourines ceases. The sound of those who rejoice ends. The joy of the harp ceases.

  • 5 David and all the house of Israel played before Yahweh with all kinds of [instruments made of] fir wood, and with harps, and with stringed instruments, and with tambourines, and with castanets, and with cymbals.

  • 13 They spend their days in prosperity. In an instant they go down to Sheol.

  • 16 David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers the singers, with instruments of music, stringed instruments and harps and cymbals, sounding aloud and lifting up the voice with joy.

  • 28 Thus all Israel brought up the ark of the covenant of Yahweh with shouting, and with sound of the cornet, and with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with stringed instruments and harps.

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    4 Make a joyful noise to Yahweh, all the earth! Burst out and sing for joy, yes, sing praises!

    5 Sing praises to Yahweh with the harp, with the harp and the voice of melody.

    6 With trumpets and sound of the ram's horn, make a joyful noise before the King, Yahweh.

  • Ps 33:2-3
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    2 Give thanks to Yahweh with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.

    3 Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!

  • 3 with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.

  • 21 The children of Israel who were present at Jerusalem kept the feast of unleavened bread seven days with great gladness; and the Levites and the priests praised Yahweh day by day, [singing] with loud instruments to Yahweh.

  • Jer 31:12-13
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    12 They shall come and sing in the height of Zion, and shall flow to the goodness of Yahweh, to the grain, and to the new wine, and to the oil, and to the young of the flock and of the herd: and their soul shall be as a watered garden; and they shall not sorrow any more at all.

    13 Then shall the virgin rejoice in the dance, and the young men and the old together; for I will turn their mourning into joy, and will comfort them, and make them rejoice from their sorrow.

  • 12 both young men and maidens; old men and children:

  • 29 You will have a song, as in the night when a holy feast is kept; and gladness of heart, as when one goes with a flute to come to Yahweh's mountain, to Israel's Rock.

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    14 The elders have ceased from the gate, The young men from their music.

    15 The joy of our heart is ceased; Our dance is turned into mourning.

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  • 31 Therefore my harp has turned to mourning, and my pipe into the voice of those who weep.

  • 12 Let the field and all that is in it exult! Then all the trees of the woods shall sing for joy

  • 40 All the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth shook with the sound of them.

  • 27 At the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought the Levites out of all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem, to keep the dedication with gladness, both with giving thanks, and with singing, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and with harps.

  • 12 The wilderness grasslands overflow. The hills are clothed with gladness.

  • 20 Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.

  • 21 and Mattithiah, and Eliphelehu, and Mikneiah, and Obed-Edom, and Jeiel, and Azaziah, with harps tuned to the eight-stringed lyre, to lead.

  • 6 It happened as they came, when David returned from the slaughter of the Philistine, that the women came out of all the cities of Israel, singing and dancing, to meet king Saul, with tambourines, with joy, and with instruments of music.

  • 7 Sing to Yahweh with thanksgiving. Sing praises on the harp to our God,

  • 7 The whole earth is at rest, and is quiet. They break out song.

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    1 Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands!

    2 Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing.

  • 15 So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of Yahweh with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.

  • 15 He takes up all of them with the hook. He catches them in his net, and gathers them in his dragnet. Therefore he rejoices and is glad.

  • 11 You have turned my mourning into dancing for me. You have removed my sackcloth, and clothed me with gladness,

  • 12 also the Levites who were the singers, all of them, even Asaph, Heman, Jeduthun, and their sons and their brothers, arrayed in fine linen, with cymbals and stringed instruments and harps, stood at the east end of the altar, and with them one hundred twenty priests sounding with trumpets;)

  • 26 The Levites stood with the instruments of David, and the priests with the trumpets.