And dance ] lwjm machol, the pipe. The croude or crowthe: Old Psalter; a species of violin. It never means dance; see the note on Psa. cxlix. 3. Crwth signifies a fiddle in Welsh.

Stringed instruments ] µynm minnim. This literally signifies strings put in order; perhaps a triangular kind of hollow instrument on which the strings were regularly placed, growing shorter and shorter till they came to a point. This would give a variety of sounds, from a deep bass to a high treble. In an ancient MS. Psalter before me, David is represented in two places, playing on such an instrument. It may be the sambuck, or psaltery, or some such instrument.

Organs. ] bgw[ ugab. Very likely the syrinx or mouth organ; Pan's pope; both of the ancients and moderns. The fistula, septem, disparibus nodis conjuncta, made of seven pieces of cane or thick straw, of unequal lengths, applied to the lips, each blown into, according to the note intended to be expressed. This instrument is often met with in the ancient bucolic or pastoral writers.

Matthew Henry Commentary

--We are here stirred up to praise God. Praise God for his sanctuary and the privileges we enjoy by having it among us; praise him becaus of his power and glory in the firmament. Those who praise the Lord in heaven, behold displays of his power and glory which we cannot no conceive. But the greatest of all his mighty acts is known in his earthly sanctuary. The holiness and the love of our God are mor displayed in man's redemption, than in all his other works. Let u praise our God and Saviour for it. We need not care to know what instruments of music are mentioned. Hereby is meant that in serving God we should spare no cost or pains. Praise God with strong faith; prais him with holy love and delight; praise him with entire confidence in Christ; praise him with believing triumph over the powers of darkness praise him by universal respect to all his commands; praise him be cheerful submission to all his disposals; praise him by rejoicing in his love, and comforting ourselves in his goodness; praise him by promoting the interests of the kingdom of his grace; praise him by lively hope and expectation of the kingdom of his glory. Since we mus shortly breathe our last, while we have breath let us praise the Lord then we shall breathe our last with comfort. Let every thing that hat breath praise the Lord. Praise ye the Lord. Such is the very suitabl end of a book inspired by the Spirit of God, written for the work of praise; a book which has supplied the songs of the church for more tha three thousand years; a book which is quoted more frequently than an other by Christ and his apostles; a book which presents the lofties ideas of God and his government, which is fitted to every state of human life, which sets forth every state of religious experience, an which bears simple and clear marks of its Divine origin __________________________________________________________________

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