Psalm 81:2-4 New English Translation
2 Sing[a] a song and play the tambourine,
the pleasant-sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument.
3 Sound the ram’s horn on the day of the new moon,[b]
and on the day of the full moon when our festival begins.[c]
4 For observing the festival is a requirement for Israel;[d]
it is an ordinance given by the God of Jacob.
Footnotes
- Psalm 81:2 tn Heb “lift up.”
- Psalm 81:3 tn Heb “at the new moon.”sn New moon festivals were a monthly ritual in Israel (see R. de Vaux, Ancient Israel, 469-70). In this context the New Moon festival of the seventh month, when the Feast of Tabernacles was celebrated (note the reference to a “festival” in the next line), may be in view.
- Psalm 81:3 tn Heb “at the full moon on the day of our festival.” The Hebrew word כֶּסֶה (keseh) is an alternate spelling of כֶּסֶא (keseʾ, “full moon”).sn The festival in view is probably the Feast of Tabernacles (Booths), which began on the fifteenth day of the seventh month when the moon was full. See Lev 23:34; Num 29:12.
- Psalm 81:4 tn Heb “because a statute for Israel [is] it.”
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