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Psalm 33:2

Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.

1Rejoice in the LORD, you righteous! Praise is fitting for the upright.
2Give thanks to the LORD with the lyre. Sing praises to him with the harp of ten strings.
3Sing to him a new song. Play skillfully with a shout of joy!
4For the LORD’s word is right. All his work is done in faithfulness.
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Notice

The lyre and ten-stringed harp make thanksgiving audible, showing how gratitude to YHWH can take shape in music as well as words.

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Where else Scripture says this

11 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Revelation 5:8Now when he had taken the book, the four living creatures and the twenty-four elders fell down before the Lamb, each one having a harp, and golden bowls full …Harps appear in both scenes of worship: thanksgiving to the LORD in the psalm and creatures falling before the Lamb in Revelation.
Psalm 92:3with the ten-stringed lute, with the harp, and with the melody of the lyre.Both passages name the harp and lyre, with a ten-stringed instrument among the sounds they describe.
Psalm 150:3Praise him with the sounding of the trumpet! Praise him with harp and lyre!Both verses direct praise to God with harp and lyre, making instruments part of the command to praise.
Psalm 71:22I will also praise you with the harp for your faithfulness, my God. I sing praises to you with the lyre, Holy One of Israel.Both verses join singing with harp and lyre in praise directed to God.
Exodus 15:20Miriam the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took a tambourine in her hand; and all the women went out after her with tambourines and with dances.Both passages feature musical instruments, though Exodus describes Miriam and the women with tambourines rather than the psalm’s strings.
1 Chronicles 25:3Of Jeduthun, the sons of Jeduthun: Gedaliah, Zeri, Jeshaiah, Shimei, Hashabiah, and Mattithiah, six, under the hands of their father Jeduthun, who prophesied …Giving thanks and praising the LORD with the harp is the shared action in both passages.
1 Chronicles 15:28Thus all Israel brought the ark of the LORD’s covenant up with shouting, with sound of the cornet, with trumpets, and with cymbals, sounding aloud with …Both passages feature harps in devotion to the LORD; Chronicles describes their sound as Israel brings up the ark.
1 Chronicles 25:6All these were under the hands of their father for song in the LORD’s house, with cymbals, stringed instruments, and harps, for the service of God’s house: …Both passages connect song and harps with worship of the LORD, with Chronicles locating that music in God’s house.
Revelation 14:2I heard a sound from heaven like the sound of many waters and like the sound of a great thunder. The sound which I heard was like that of harpists playing on …The harp supplies their shared sound: an instrument for praise in the psalm and a comparison for heaven’s sound in Revelation.
2 Samuel 6:5David and all the house of Israel played before the LORD with all kinds of instruments made of cypress wood, with harps, with stringed instruments, with …Both passages connect harps with music directed toward the LORD, with Samuel describing David and Israel playing before him.
1 Chronicles 15:16David spoke to the chief of the Levites to appoint their brothers as singers with instruments of music, stringed instruments, harps, and cymbals, sounding …Singing accompanied by harps connects these passages, with Chronicles describing appointed singers lifting their voices with joy.
Where this verse fits

Gratitude. praise and worship.

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Sing one song of thanks to YHWH

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Encouragement

Your voice has a place in thanking God. The surrounding lines give praise its reason: YHWH’s word is right, and his work is faithful.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).