SEV Biblia, Chapter 81:3
Tocad la trompeta en la nueva luna, en el tiempo señalado, en el día de nuestra fiesta solemne.
Clarke's Bible Commentary - Psalms 80:3
Verse 3. Blow up the trumpet ] rpw shophar, a species of horn. Certainly a wind instrument, as the two last were stringed instruments.
Perhaps some chanted a psalm in recitativo, while all these instruments vere used as accompaniments. In a representative system of religion, such as the Jewish, there must have been much outside work, all emblematical of better things: no proof that such things should be continued under the Gospel dispensation, where outsides have disappeared, shadows flown away, and the substance alone is presented to the hearts of mankind. He must be ill off for proofs in iavour of instrumental music in the Church of Christ, who has recourse to practices under the Jewish ritual.
The feast of the new moon was always proclaimed by sound of trumpet.
Of the ceremonies on this occasion I have given a full account in my Discourse on the Eucharist. For want of astronomical knowledge, the poor Jews were put to sad shifts to know the real time of the new moon. They generally sent persons to the top of some hill or mountain about the time which, according to their supputations, the new moon should appear. The first who saw it was to give immediate notice to the Sanhedrin; they closely examined the reporter as to his credibility, and whether his information agreed with their calculations. If all was found satisfactory, the president proclaimed the new moon by shouting out dqm mikkodesh! "It is consecrated." This word was repeated twice aloud by the people; and was then proclaimed every where by blowing of horns, or what is called the sound of trumpets. Among the Hindoos some feasts are announced by the sound of the conch or sacred shell.
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
תקעו 8628 בחדשׁ 2320 שׁופר 7782 בכסה 3677 ליום 3117 חגנו׃ 2282
