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Psalms 81:3

Psalms 81:3
Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.

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Baptist theologian, 1697–1771

Gill's Exposition

Blow up the trumpet in the new moon,.... Either in every new moon, or first day of the month, which was religiously observed by the Jews, Kg2 4:23 or rather the new moon, or first day of the seventh…

Presbyterian pastor, 1798–1870

Barnes' Notes

Blow up the trumpet - The word rendered blow means to make a clangor or noise as on a trumpet. The trumpet was, like the timbrel, the harp, and the psaltery, a common instrument of music, and was…

Nonconformist minister, 1662–1714

Matthew Henry

Psalms 81:1-7

When the people of God were gathered together in the solemn day, the day of the feast of the Lord, they must be told that they had business to do, for we do not go to church to sleep nor to be idle;…

Academic commentary, 1882–1921

Cambridge Bible

the trumpet Heb. shôphâr, the horn, as distinguished from the metal trumpet. In the Pentateuch the use of the shôphâris only prescribed in connexion with the year of Jubilee (Lev 25:9), but according…