Awake, O stringed instrument and harp! I will wake up at dawn! ¹ 

Praise him with the blast of the horn! Praise him with the lyre and the harp!

They entered Jerusalem to the sound of stringed instruments and trumpets and proceeded to the temple of the Lord.

Who by wisdom can count the clouds, and who can tip over ¹  the water jars of heaven,

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

Awake, my soul! ¹  Awake, O stringed instrument and harp! I will wake up at dawn! ² 

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

Take away from me your ¹  noisy songs; I don’t want to hear the music of your stringed instruments. ² 

Zechariah, Aziel, Shemiramoth, Jehiel, Unni, Eliab, Maaseiah, and Benaiah were to play the harps according to the alamoth style; ¹ 

I will express my thanks to you with a stringed instrument, praising ¹  your faithfulness, O my God! I will sing praises to you accompanied by a harp, O Holy One of Israel! ² 

Sing ¹  a song and play the tambourine, the pleasant sounding harp, and the ten-stringed instrument!

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

Your splendor ¹  has been brought down to Sheol, as well as the sound of your stringed instruments. ²  You lie on a bed of maggots, with a blanket of worms over you. ³ 

ב (Bet) The precious sons of Zion were worth their weight in gold – Alas! – but now they are treated like ¹  broken clay pots, made by a potter. ² 

They sing ¹  to the tune of ²  stringed instruments; ³  like David they invent ⁴  musical instruments.

“So tell them, ¹  ‘The Lord, the God of Israel, says, “Every wine jar is made to be filled with wine.”’ ²  And they will probably say to you, ‘Do you not think we know ³  that every wine jar is supposed to be filled with wine?’

Once she had weaned him, she took him up with her, along with three bulls, an ephah ¹  of flour, and a container ²  of wine. She brought him to the Lord’s house at Shiloh, even though he was young. ³ 

while David and all Israel ¹  were energetically celebrating before the Lord, singing ²  and playing various stringed instruments, ³  tambourines, rattles, ⁴  and cymbals.

while David and all Israel were energetically ¹  celebrating before God, singing and playing various stringed instruments, ²  tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

David told the leaders of the Levites to appoint some of their relatives as musicians; they were to play various instruments, including stringed instruments and cymbals, and to sing loudly and joyfully. ¹