Singers walk in front; musicians follow playing their stringed instruments, in the midst of young women playing tambourines.

For the hills bring it food, where all the wild animals play.

Sing to him a new song! Play skillfully as you shout out your praises to him!

But now, get me a musician.” When the musician played, the Lord energized him,

And the streets of the city will be full of boys and girls playing.

So Saul said to his servants, “Find me a man who plays well and bring him to me.”

The ships travel there, and over here swims the whale you made to play in it.

Can you play with it, like a bird, or tie it on a leash for your girls?

“Take the harp, go through the city, forgotten prostitute! Play it well, play lots of songs, so you’ll be noticed!”

‘We played the flute for you, yet you did not dance; we wailed in mourning, yet you did not weep.’

The name of his brother was Jubal; he was the first of all who play the harp and the flute.

Sing a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!

All the people followed him up, playing flutes and celebrating so loudly they made the ground shake.

Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play the harps according to the alamoth style;

Then an evil spirit from the Lord came upon Saul. He was sitting in his house with his spear in his hand, while David was playing the lyre.

A baby will play over the hole of a snake; over the nest of a serpent an infant will put his hand.

The elders are gone from the city gate; the young men have stopped playing their music.

while David and all Israel were energetically celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

The women who were playing the music sang, “Saul has struck down his thousands, but David his tens of thousands!”

So do not be idolaters, as some of them were. As it is written, “The people sat down to eat and drink and rose up to play.”