Psalms 33:2

33:2 Give thanks to the Lord with the harp!

Sing to him to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument!

Psalms 81:2

81:2 Sing ¹  a song and play the tambourine,

the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!

Isaiah 24:8

24:8 The happy sound ²  of the tambourines stops,

the revelry of those who celebrate comes to a halt,

the happy sound of the harp ceases.

Ezekiel 26:13

26:13 I will silence ³  the noise of your songs; the sound of your harps will be heard no more.

Amos 8:10

8:10 I will turn your festivals into funerals, ⁴ 

and all your songs into funeral dirges.

I will make everyone wear funeral clothes ⁵ 

and cause every head to be shaved bald. ⁶ 

I will make you mourn as if you had lost your only son; ⁷ 

when it ends it will indeed have been a bitter day. ⁸ 

Revelation 18:22

18:22 And the sound of the harpists, musicians,

flute players, and trumpeters

will never be heard in you ⁹  again.

No ¹⁰  craftsman ¹¹  who practices any trade

will ever be found in you again;

the noise of a mill ¹²  will never be heard in you again.

[81:2]  ¹ tn Heb “lift up.”

[24:8]  ² tn Heb “the joy” (again later in this verse).

[26:13]  ³ tn Heb “cause to end.”

[8:10]  ⁴ tn Heb “mourning.”

[8:10]  ⁵ tn Heb “I will place sackcloth on all waists.”

[8:10]  ⁶ tn Heb “and make every head bald.” This could be understood in a variety of ways, while the ritual act of mourning typically involved shaving the head (although occasionally the hair could be torn out as a sign of mourning).

[8:10]  ⁷ tn Heb “I will make it like the mourning for an only son.”

[8:10]  ⁸ tn Heb “and its end will be like a bitter day.” The Hebrew preposition כְּ (kaf) sometimes carries the force of “in every respect,” indicating identity rather than mere comparison.

[18:22]  ⁹ tn The shift to a second person pronoun here corresponds to the Greek text.

[18:22]  ¹⁰ tn Here καί (kai) has not been translated because of differences between Greek and English style.

[18:22]  ¹¹ tn On this term BDAG 1001 s.v. τεχνίτης states, “craftsperson, artisan, designer…Of a silversmith Ac 19:24, 25 v.l., 38….Of a potter 2 Cl 8:2 (metaph., cp. Ath. 15:2). πᾶς τεχνίτης πάσης τέχνης Rv 18:22.”

[18:22]  ¹² tn This is a different Greek word (μύλος, mulos) from the one for the millstone in v. 21 (μύλινος, mulinos). See L&N 7.68.