Your cheeks are beautiful with ornaments; your neck is lovely with strings of jewels.

For look, the wicked prepare their bows, they put their arrows on the strings, to shoot in the darkness at the morally upright.

Give thanks to the Lord with the harp! Sing to him to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument!

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

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

O God, I will sing a new song to you! Accompanied by a ten-stringed instrument, I will sing praises to you,

to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument and a lyre, to the accompaniment of the meditative tone of the harp.

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

For you make them retreat when you shoot your arrows at them.

All your garments are perfumed with myrrh, aloes, and cassia. From the luxurious palaces comes the music of stringed instruments that makes you happy.

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

They have stringed instruments, tambourines, flutes, and wine at their parties. So they do not recognize what the Lord is doing, they do not perceive what he is bringing about.