The Bible Commentaries and Others: Psalms 150 v 4

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Posted by Psalms on Sunday, 17 January 2016

Psalms 150:4

Praise him with the timbrel and dance: praise him with stringed instruments and organs.

4. Praise him with the timbrel and dance. Associated with the deliverance at the Red Sea, this form of worship set forth the most jubilant and exultant of worship. The hands and the feet were both employed, and the entire body moved in sympathy with the members. Are there not periods of life when we feel so glad that we would dance for joy? Let not such exhilaration be spent upon common themes, but let the name of God stir us to ecstasy. There is enough in our holy faith to create and to justify the utmost degree of rapturous delight. If people are dull in the worship of the Lord our God they are not acting consistently with the character of their religion. Praise him with stringed instruments and organs. We have here the three kinds of musical instruments: timbrels, which are struck, and strings, and pipes: all may be sanctified to highest uses. Many people, many minds, and these as different as strings and pipes; but there is only one God, and that one God all should worship. The word translated organs signifies pipe—a simpler form of wind instrument than the more modern and more elaborate organ. Doubtless many a pious shepherd has poured out gracious pastorals from a reed or oaten pipe, and so has magnified his God.

Excerpt from:

The Treasury of David by Charles Haddon Spurgeon (1834-1892)