dancing in the church

³Let them praise his name in chorus. Let them sing psalms to him with the timbrel and the psaltery.

⁴Praise him with timbrel and choir. Praise him with strings and organ.

¹⁴And David danced with all his ability before the Lord. And David was girded with the linen ephod.

⁴A time to weep, and a time to laugh. A time to mourn, and a time to dance.

¹³Then the virgin will rejoice with singing, the young and the old together, and I will turn their mourning into gladness, and I will console them and gladden them after their sorrow.

²⁵But his elder son was in the field. And when he returned and drew near to the house, he heard music and dancing.

¹²You have turned my mourning into gladness for me. You have cut off my sackcloth, and you have surrounded me with joy.

²⁰And so Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took up a timbrel in her hand. And all the women followed her with timbrels and dancing.

⁶Now when David returned, after he had struck down the Philistine, the women went out, from all the cities of Israel, leading the singing and dancing, rejoicing with timbrels and bells, so as to meet king Saul.

¹Alleluia. Praise the Lord in his holy places. Praise him in the firmament of his power. ²Praise him for his virtues. Praise him according to the multitude of his greatness. ³Praise him with the sound of the trumpet. Praise him with psaltery and stringed instrument. ⁴Praise him with timbrel and choir. Praise him with strings and organ. ⁵Praise him with sweet-sounding cymbals. Praise him with cymbals of jubilation. ⁶Let every spirit praise the Lord. Alleluia.

²⁰And so Miriam, the prophetess, the sister of Aaron, took up a timbrel in her hand. And all the women followed her with timbrels and dancing. ²¹And she prophesied, saying: “Let us sing to the Lord, for he has been gloriously magnified. The horse and its rider, he has thrown into the sea.”