Psalms 80:3
Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel: the pleasant psaltery with the harp.
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- Vulgate (Clementine)
- Sumite psalmum, et date tympanum ; psalterium jucundum cum cithara.
- Septuagint (Swete)
- λάβετε ψαλμὸν καὶ δότε τύμπανον, ψαλτήριον τερπνὸν μετὰ κιθάρας·
- Hebrew (WLC) shown from Psalms 81:3
- שְֽׂאוּ זִ֭מְרָה וּתְנוּ תֹ֑ף כִּנּ֖וֹר נָעִ֣ים עִם נָֽבֶל
The Fathers on this verse
St Augustine Expositions on the Book of Psalms, Psalm LXXXI
4. “Take the Psalm and give the tabret” ( ver. 2 ). Both “take,” and “give.” What is, “take”? what, “give”? “Take the Psalm, and give the tabret.” The Apostle Paul saith in a certain place, reproving and grieving, that no one had communicated with him in the matter of giving and receiving. What is, “in the matter of giving and receiving,” but that which he hath openly set forth in another place. “If we have sowed unto you spiritual things, is it a great thing if we reap your carnal things.” And it is true that a tabret, which is made of hide, belongs to the flesh. The Psalm, therefore, is spiritual, the tabret, carnal. Therefore, people of God, congregation of God, “take ye the Psalm, and give the tabret:” take ye spiritual things, and give carnal. This also is what at that blessed Martyr’s table we exhorted you, that receiving spiritual things ye should give carnal. …