Proverbia 33:2

Nova Vulgata

Confitemini Domino in cithara, in psalterio decem chordarum psallite illi.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Ecce aperui os meum : loquatur lingua mea in faucibus meis.

Jerome's Latin Vulgate (405)
[Benedicam Dominum in omni tempore;
semper laus ejus in ore meo.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Praise: Psalms 81:2, Psalms 81:3, Psalms 92:3, Psalms 98:4, Psalms 98:5, Psalms 144:9, Psalms 149:3, Psalms 150:3-6, Exodus 15:20, 2 Samuel 6:5, 1 Chronicles 15:16, 1 Chronicles 15:28, 1 Chronicles 25:3, 1 Chronicles 25:6, Revelation 5:8, Revelation 14:2

with the psaltery: Benaivel asor, rather, "with the ten-stringed nabla." See note on 1 Chronicles 13:8.

Reciprocal: 1 Chronicles 15:21 - harps Psalms 34:3 - let us Psalms 108:2 - Awake Psalms 113:1 - O Psalms 135:1 - Praise ye the Lord Psalms 137:2 - we hanged Psalms 150:4 - stringed

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Praise the Lord with harp,.... An instrument David was well skilled in the use of, the inventor of which was Jubal, Genesis 4:21;

sing unto, him with the psaltery; the name of this instrument is in the Hebrew language "nebel": the account which Josephus w gives of this, and of the former, is,

"the harp is extended with ten strings, and is plucked with a quill; the "nabla", or psaltery, has twelve sounds, and is played upon with the fingers;''

some make this and the next to be the same:

[and] an instrument of ten strings; and read them together thus, "with the psaltery of ten strings": and so the Targum, Septuagint, and other versions x: but it seems from Josephus that it was not a stringed instrument, but had holes, and those twelve; and besides it is distinguished from the instrument of ten strings, Psalms 92:3; it was in the form of a bottle, from whence it had its name.

w Antiqu. l. 7. c. 12. s. 3. x Vid. Jarchium in loc. & R. Mosem in Aben Ezra in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Praise the Lord with harp - For a description of the “harp,” see the notes at Isaiah 5:12.

Sing unto him with the psaltery - For the meaning of this word, also, see the notes at Isaiah 5:12, where the word is rendered “viol.”

And an instrument of ten strings - The word “and” is supplied here by the translators as if, in this place, a third instrument was referred to, distinct from the harp and the psaltery. The more correct rendering, however, would be, “a psaltery (or lyre) of ten strings.” The same construction occurs in Psalms 144:9. In Psalms 92:3, however, the two words are separately used as denoting different instruments. The “lyre” or psaltery was probably not always made with the same number of strings, and it would seem that the one that was made of “ten” strings had something special about it as an instrument of uncommon sweetness or power. Hence, it is particularly designated here; and the idea is that the instruments of especial power and sweetness should be on this occasion employed in the service of God.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Psalms 33:2. Praise the Lord with harp — כנור kinnor; probably something like our harp: but Calmet thinks it the ancient testudo, or lyre with three strings.

The psalter — נבל nebel. Our translation seems to make a third instrument in this place, by rendering עשור asor, an instrument of ten strings; whereas they should both be joined together, for נבל עשור nebel-asor signifies the nebal, or nabla, with ten strings, or holes. Calmet supposes this to have resembled our harp. In one of Kennicott's MSS., this Psalm begins with the second verse.