Psalm 68:25 “The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maiden…”

Psalm 68:25

The singers lead the way, the musicians follow after, among the maidens playing tambourines.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

The singers went before, the players on instruments followed after; among them were the damsels playing with timbrels.

World English Bible

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, among the ladies playing with tambourines,

American Standard Version

The singers went before, the minstrels followed after, In the midst of the damsels playing with timbrels.

Geneva Bible 1599

The singers went before, the players of instruments after: in the middes were the maides playing with timbrels.

Darby Translation

The singers went before, the players on stringed instruments after, in the midst of maidens playing on tabrets.

Young's Literal Translation

Singers have been before, Behind [are] players on instruments, In the midst virgins playing with timbrels.

Bible in Basic English

The makers of songs go before, the players of music come after, among the young girls playing on brass instruments.

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Cross references

“the players”

Psalm 87:7 Psalm 150:3–5 Revelation 14:2 Revelation 14:3 Revelation 15:2 Revelation 15:3

Psalm 87:7 · BSB

Singers and pipers will proclaim, “All my springs of joy are in You.”

Psalm 150:3–5 · BSB

Praise Him with the sound of the horn; praise Him with the harp and lyre.

Revelation 14:2 · BSB

And I heard a sound from heaven like the roar of many waters and the loud rumbling of thunder. And the sound I heard was like harpists strumming their harps.

Revelation 14:3 · BSB

And they sang a new song before the throne and before the four living creatures and the elders. And no one could learn the song except the 144,000 who had been redeemed from the earth.

Revelation 15:2 · BSB

And I saw something like a sea of glass mixed with fire, beside which stood those who had conquered the beast and its image and the number of its name. They were holding harps from God,

Revelation 15:3 · BSB

and they sang the song of God’s servant Moses and of the Lamb: “Great and wonderful are Your works, O Lord God Almighty! Just and true are Your ways, O King of the nations!

“among”

Judges 11:34 Exodus 15:20 1 Samuel 18:6 Jeremiah 31:4 Jeremiah 31:13 Psalm 148:12

Judges 11:34 · BSB

And when Jephthah returned home to Mizpah, there was his daughter coming out to meet him with tambourines and dancing! She was his only child; he had no son or daughter besides her.

Exodus 15:20 · BSB

Then Miriam the prophetess, Aaron’s sister, took a tambourine in her hand, and all the women followed her with tambourines and dancing.

1 Samuel 18:6 · BSB

As the troops were returning home after David had killed the Philistine, the women came out of all the cities of Israel to meet King Saul with singing and dancing, with joyful songs, and with tambourines and other instru…

Jeremiah 31:4 · BSB

Again I will build you, and you will be rebuilt, O Virgin Israel. Again you will take up your tambourines and go out in joyful dancing.

Jeremiah 31:13 · BSB

Then the maidens will rejoice with dancing, young men and old as well. I will turn their mourning into joy, and give them comfort and joy for their sorrow.

Psalm 148:12 · BSB

young men and maidens, old and young together.

Also

1 Chronicles 13:8

1 Chronicles 13:8 · BSB

David and all the Israelites were celebrating before God with all their might, with songs and on harps and lyres, with tambourines, cymbals, and trumpets.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

24They have seen Your procession, O God— the march of my God and King into the sanctuary.

26Bless God in the great congregation; bless the LORD from the fountain of Israel.

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