Psalms 81:3

Sound the ram’s horn on the day of the new moon, ¹  and on the day of the full moon when our festival begins. ² 

biblegateway Psa 81:3

Sound the ram’s horn at the New Moon, and when the moon is full, on the day of our Feast;

biblegateway Psa 81:3

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, At the full moon, on our feast day.

biblegateway Psa 81:3

Sound the trumpet for a sacred feast when the moon is new, when the moon is full.

biblegateway Psa 81:3

Trumpets and trombones and horns: it's festival day, a feast to God!

SABDAweb Psa 81:3

Let the horn be sounded in the time of the new moon, at the full moon, on our holy feast-day:

bibleoremus Psa 81:3

Blow the trumpet at the new moon, at the full moon, on our festal day.

biblegateway Psa 81:3

Blow the trumpet at the time of the New Moon, At the full moon, on our solemn feast day.

biblegateway Psa 81:3

Sound the ram’s horn on the day of the new moon, ¹  and on the day of the full moon when our festival begins. ² 

¹ tn Heb “at the new moon.”

¹ 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.

² tn Heb “at the full moon on the day of our festival.” The Hebrew word כֶּסֶה (keseh) is an alternate spelling of כֶּסֶא (kese’, “full moon”).

² 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.