Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 80:2
Verse 2. Take a psalm ] hrmz zimrah. I rather think that this was the name of a musical instrument. Bring hither the timbrel ] pt toph; some kind of drum or tom tom.
The pleasant harp ] rwnk kinnor. Probably a sistrum, or something like it. A STRINGED instrument.
With the psaltery. ] lbn nebel, the nabla. The cithara, Septuagint.
Matthew Henry Commentary
Verses 1-7 - All the worship we can render to the Lord is beneath his excellences and our obligations to him, especially in our redemption from sin an wrath. What God had done on Israel's behalf, was kept in remembrance by public solemnities. To make a deliverance appear more gracious, mor glorious, it is good to observe all that makes the trouble we ar delivered from appear more grievous. We ought never to forget the bas and ruinous drudgery to which Satan, our oppressor, brought us. But when, in distress of conscience, we are led to cry for deliverance, the Lord answers our prayers, and sets us at liberty. Convictions of sin and trials by affliction, prove his regard to his people. If the Jews on their solemn feast-days, were thus to call to mind their redemptio out of Egypt, much more ought we, on the Christian sabbath, to call to mind a more glorious redemption, wrought out for us by our Lord Jesu Christ, from worse bondage.
Original Hebrew
שׂאו 5375 זמרה 2172 ותנו 5414 תף 8596 כנור 3658 נעים 5273 עם 5973 נבל׃ 5035
