²⁵ `And his elder son was in a field, and as, coming, he drew nigh to the house, he heard music and dancing,

²⁰ And Miriam the inspired one, sister of Aaron, taketh the timbrel in her hand, and all the women go out after her, with timbrels and with choruses;

³² they are like to children, to those sitting in a market-place, and calling one to another, and saying, We piped to you, and ye did not dance, we mourned to you, and ye did not weep!

⁴ Again do I build thee, And thou hast been built, O virgin of Israel, Again thou puttest on thy tabrets, And hast gone out in the chorus of the playful.

⁴ A time to weep, And a time to laugh. A time to mourn, And a time to skip.

⁴ Praise Him with timbrel and dance, Praise Him with stringed instruments and organ.

³ They praise His name in a dance, With timbrel and harp sing praise to Him.

¹ A Song of the Ascents. In Jehovah's turning back `to' the captivity of Zion, We have been as dreamers.

¹¹ Thou hast turned my mourning to dancing for me, Thou hast loosed my sackcloth, And girdest me `with' joy.

¹⁴ And David is dancing with all strength before Jehovah, and David is girded with a linen ephod,

¹¹ And he said, `A certain man had two sons,

¹² and the younger of them said to the father, Father, give me the portion of the substance falling to `me', and he divided to them the living.