Verse Lens · Context pointer
Psalms 149:3 Explained in Context
Use this verse as a doorway into the larger passage—not as an isolated saying.
Verse 3. 3Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp.
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Role in This Section
Psalm 149:3: Within “New song, communal joy, and troubling judgment,” the line “Let them praise his name in the dance” supplies one distinct parallel claim, image, address, or response.
Read It With
- Psalms 149:1–9
Read Psalms 149:3 with 149:1–9. Read alone, “Let them praise his name in the dance” could lose the communal voice, the parallel line or movement it develops, and the psalm's outcome. The complete movement establishes: Within Psalms 149:1–9, the communal voice carries the movement “New song, communal joy, and troubling judgment” as part of “New song, communal joy, and troubling judgment.” Its hallelujah-hymn form and poetic parallelism hold the petitions, images, memories, or praise together before any single line is applied.
Continue in Context
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Read Psalms 149:1–9 — New song, communal joy, and troubling judgmentSources used for this context pointer
How certain is this explanation? strong
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Biblical text
King James (Authorized) Version — eng-kjv2006
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USFM archive eng-kjv2006_usfm.zip; source files dated 2026-08-19; downloaded 2026-08-24; archive SHA-256 aec1b3b26c622fd3d963d2bbac963016b9513246ffbfa20da00bb100372ea007; normalized corpus SHA-256 09aef51d90488aa7b9722b3fd9a93f4b25f6bf2064c5fd798fb39673c300ddf2.
Supports: Exact displayed KJV wording, verse order, paragraph metadata, supplied-word markup, and complete thought-unit coverage.
Exact location: Psalms 149:1–9, pinned eng-kjv2006 USFM-derived repository corpus
Open source ↗hebrew text and morphology
Open Scriptures Hebrew Bible: Psalms
Open Scriptures
Open Scriptures, release 2.2
Supports: Masoretic Hebrew wording and morphology checked at the exact unit without treating morphology as a complete apparatus or interpretation.
Exact location: Open Scriptures MorphHB v2.2, commit 6a5db284c715c18b239422e57bb89684e6a19f00, wlc/Ps.xml, OSIS 149:1–9
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