45:8 All your garments are perfumed with 1 myrrh, aloes, and cassia.
From the luxurious palaces 2 comes the music of stringed instruments that makes you happy. 3
For the music director; to be played on a stringed instrument; written by David.
61:1 O God, hear my cry for help!
Pay attention to my prayer!
For the music director; to be accompanied by stringed instruments; a psalm of Asaph, a song.
76:1 God has revealed himself in Judah; 6
in Israel his reputation 7 is great.
92:3 to the accompaniment of a ten-stringed instrument and a lyre,
to the accompaniment of the meditative tone of the harp.
144:9 O God, I will sing a new song to you!
Accompanied by a ten-stringed instrument, I will sing praises to you,
1 tn The words “perfumed with” are supplied in the translation for clarification.
2 tn Heb “the palaces of ivory.” The phrase “palaces of ivory” refers to palaces that had ivory panels and furniture decorated with ivory inlays. Such decoration with ivory was characteristic of a high level of luxury. See 1 Kgs 22:39 and Amos 3:15.
3 tn Heb “from the palaces of ivory stringed instrument[s] make you happy.”
4 sn Psalm 61. The psalmist cries out for help and expresses his confidence that God will protect him.
5 sn Psalm 76. The psalmist depicts God as a mighty warrior who destroys Israel’s enemies.
6 tn Or “God is known in Judah.”
7 tn Heb “name,” which here stands metonymically for God’s reputation.