Our hearts no longer have any joy; ¹  our dancing is turned to mourning.

Then you turned my lament into dancing; you removed my sackcloth and covered me with joy. ¹ 

“Now his older son was in the field. As ¹  he came and approached the house, he heard music ²  and dancing.

Let them praise his name with dancing! Let them sing praises to him to the accompaniment of the tambourine and harp!

When he approached the camp and saw the calf and the dancing, Moses became extremely angry. ¹  He threw the tablets from his hands and broke them to pieces at the bottom of the mountain. ² 

Praise him with the tambourine and with dancing! Praise him with stringed instruments and the flute!

When the men ¹  arrived after David returned from striking down the Philistine, the women from all the cities of Israel came out singing and dancing to meet King Saul. They were happy as they played their tambourines and three-stringed instruments. ² 

Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a hand-drum in her hand, and all the women went out after her with hand-drums and with dances. ¹ 

When Jephthah came home to Mizpah, there was his daughter hurrying out ¹  to meet him, dancing to the rhythm of tambourines. ²  She was his only child; except for her he had no son or daughter.

So he took David ¹  down, and they found them spread out over the land. They were eating and drinking and enjoying themselves because of all the loot ²  they had taken from the land of the Philistines and from the land of Judah.

As the ark of the Lord entered the City of David, Saul’s daughter Michal looked out the window. When she saw King David leaping and dancing before the Lord, she despised him. ¹ 

Now David, wearing a linen ephod, was dancing with all his strength before the Lord. ¹ 

As the ark of the Lord’s covenant entered the City of David, Michal, Saul’s daughter, looked out the window. When she saw King David jumping and celebrating, she despised him. ¹ 

and my spirit has begun to rejoice ¹  in God my Savior,

But on Herod’s birthday, the daughter of Herodias danced before them and pleased Herod,

They sing ¹  to the accompaniment of tambourine and harp, and make merry to the sound of the flute.

Strength lodges in its neck, and despair ¹  runs before it.

I maintain a pure lifestyle, ¹  so I can appear before your altar, ²  O Lord,

Grant me the ultimate joy of being forgiven! ¹  May the bones ²  you crushed rejoice! ³ 

The pastures in the wilderness glisten with moisture, ¹  and the hills are clothed with joy. ²