“"Take the Psalm and give the tabret" [Psalm 81:2]. Both "take," and "give." What is, "take"? What, "give"? "Take the Psalm, and give the tabret." The Apostle Paul says in a certain place, [Philippians 4:15] reproving and grieving, that no one had communicated with him in the matter of giving and receiving. What is, "i…”
Augustine of Hippo, 5th c. — Exposition on Psalm 81
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2Take a psalm, and bring hither the timbrel, the pleasant harp with the psaltery.
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1Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob.
— Psalms 81:2 —
3Blow up the trumpet in the new moon, in the time appointed, on our solemn feast day.
4For this was a statute for Israel, and a law of the God of Jacob.