²⁸ So they came to Jerusalem, with stringed instruments and harps and trumpets, to the house of the Lord.

² And I heard a voice from heaven, ^(A)like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of loud thunder. And I heard the sound of ^(B)harpists playing their harps. ³ They sang as it were a new song before the throne, before the four living creatures, and the elders; and no one could learn that song ^(C)except the hundred and forty-four thousand who were redeemed from the earth.

⁶ All these were under the direction of their father for the music in the house of the Lord, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and ^(A)harps, for the service of the house of God. Asaph, Jeduthun, and Heman were ^(B)under the authority of the king.

⁵ four thousand were gatekeepers, and four thousand ^(A)praised the Lord with musical instruments, ^(B)“which I made,” said David, “for giving praise.”

⁸ Then ^(A)David and all Israel played music before God with all their might, with ^[a]singing, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on cymbals, and with trumpets.

⁵ Then David and all the house of Israel ^(A)played music before the Lord on all kinds of instruments of fir wood, on harps, on stringed instruments, on tambourines, on sistrums, and on cymbals.