Why did you flee secretly and deceive me and not tell me—so that I might have sent you away with gladness and with songs, with tambourine and with lyre—

Then Moses and the sons of Israel sang this song to Yahweh and said, “I will sing to Yahweh, for He is highly exalted; The horse and its rider He has hurled into the sea.

Yah is my strength and song, And He has become my salvation; This is my God, and I will praise Him; My father’s God, and I will extol Him.

Then Israel sang this song: “Spring up, O well! Sing to it!

“So now, write this song for yourselves and teach it to the sons of Israel; put it in their mouths, so that this song may be a witness for Me against the sons of Israel.

Then it will be, when many evils and troubles have found them, that this song will answer them as a witness (for it shall not be forgotten from the mouths of their seed); for I know their intent which they are developing today, before I have brought them into the land which I swore.”

So Moses wrote this song the same day and taught it to the sons of Israel.

Then Moses spoke in the hearing of all the assembly of Israel the words of this song, until they were complete:

Then Moses came and spoke all the words of this song in the hearing of the people, he and Joshua the son of Nun.

“Awake, awake, Deborah; Awake, awake, utter a song! Arise, Barak, and take away your captives, O son of Abinoam.

and he told them to teach the sons of Judah the song of the bow; behold, it is written in the book of Jashar.

And David spoke to Yahweh the words of this song in the day that Yahweh delivered him from the hand of all his enemies and from the hand of Saul.

He also spoke 3,000 proverbs, and his songs were 1,005.

Now these are those whom David caused to stand over the service of song in the house of Yahweh, after the ark rested there.

And they ministered with song before the tabernacle of the tent of meeting, until Solomon had built the house of Yahweh in Jerusalem; and they stood for their service according to their custom.

Now David and all Israel were celebrating before God with all their strength, even with songs and with lyres, harps, tambourines, cymbals, and with trumpets.

And with them were Heman and Jeduthun with trumpets and cymbals for those who should sound aloud, and with instruments for the songs of God, and the sons of Jeduthun for the gate.

Then Hezekiah said to offer the burnt offering on the altar. When the burnt offering began, the song to Yahweh also began with the trumpets, accompanied by the instruments of David, king of Israel.

For there was a commandment from the king concerning them and a firm regulation for the song leaders day by day.

The Levites were Jeshua, Binnui, Kadmiel, Sherebiah, Judah, and Mattaniah who was over of the songs of thanksgiving, he and his brothers.

Now at the dedication of the wall of Jerusalem they sought out the Levites from all their places, to bring them to Jerusalem so that they might celebrate the dedication with gladness, with hymns of thanksgiving and with songs to the accompaniment of cymbals, harps and lyres.

For in the days of David and Asaph, in ancient times, there were chiefs of the singers, songs of praise and hymns of thanksgiving to God.

“And now I have become their mocking song; I have even become a taunting word to them.

But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, Who gives songs of praise in the night,

He said, “I love You, O Yahweh, my strength.”

Yahweh is my strength and my shield; My heart trusts in Him, and I am helped; Therefore my heart exults, And with my song I shall thank Him.

I will exalt You, O Yahweh, for You have lifted me up, And have not let my enemies be glad over me.

You are my hiding place; You guard me from trouble; You surround me with songs of deliverance. Selah.

Sing to Him a new song; Play skillfully with a loud shout.

He put a new song in my mouth, a song of praise to our God; Many will see and fear And will trust in Yahweh.

By day, Yahweh will command His lovingkindness; And by night, His song will be with me, A prayer to the God of my life.