Psalms 149:3

Let them praise his name in the dance,.... In a chorus of saints, joining together in their expressions of joy, by words and gestures; an ancient practice that went along with singing praises, Exo…

Let them praise his name in the dance - Margin, with the pipe. The Hebrew word here - מחול mâchôl - is rendered dancing in Psa 30:11; dance, as here, Psa 150:4 (where also the margin has pipe); Jer…

We have here,

I. The calls given to God's Israel to praise. All his works were, in the foregoing psalm, excited to praise him; but here his saints in a particular manner are required to bless him.…

in the dance This, and not pipe(A.V. marg.), is the right rendering here and in Psa 150:4. Dancing was a natural expression of joy among the Jews as among other nations of antiquity, in all periods of…