It’s Biblical!
I was reading Psalm 150 this morning in the NIV translation, and for some reason got curious to see how The Message Bible phrased the Psalm.
Psalm 150
1 Hallelujah! Praise God in his holy house of worship, praise him under the open skies;
2 Praise him for his acts of power, praise him for his magnificent greatness;
3 Praise with a blast on the trumpet, praise by strumming soft strings;
4 Praise him with castanets and dance, praise him with banjo and flute;
5 Praise him with cymbals and a big bass drum, praise him with fiddles and mandolin.
6 Let every living, breathing creature praise God! Hallelujah!
Did you catch that?
Look at verse 5 again.
Needless to say I was quite excited to learn that the mandolin was mentioned in the Bible - even if it’s a modern paraphrase and not a literal translation… Apparently praising God with the mandolin is much more biblically correct than a guitar…
So Psalm 150:5 is now my favorite verse. But only if you’re reading The Message Bible.
Now, of course, since we are a people of the WHOLE Bible and not just pick the parts we like, I expect to see you dancing (verse 4) next time your leading worship and playing the mandolin!
You’re the second person this week that told me that I need to open up to dancing for the Lord…
What about the Keytars of the world?
Yeah, Ronnie, let’s see your dancing, since a while back you (rightfully) made fun of my dancing!!!
The Message version of Psalm 33
1-3 Good people, cheer God! Right-living people sound best when praising.
Use guitars to reinforce your Hallelujahs!
Play his praise on a grand piano!
Invent your own new song to him;
give him a trumpet fanfare.
Looks like Rod is getting another piano!!!
Looks like I’m getting a new guitar. But Kelly the word says…
Psalm 144:9 (The Message)
9-10 O God, let me sing a new song to you,
let me play it on a twelve-string guitar—
A song to the God who saved the king,
the God who rescued David, his servant.
Great Idea Gil! I say tomorrow…during “Birhtday”, would be an excellent chance for Ronnie to strut! You up for the challenge Ronnie?
This white boy don’t dance fellas.
On the other hand… I was watching “O Brother Where Art Thou” this afternoon and at the end, there was a dancing fiddler and mandolin picker leading the lynch mob bringing in Babyface Nelson.