Psalms 149:6-9
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Let the high praises of God be in their throats and two-edged swords in their hands,
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to execute vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
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to bind their kings with fetters and their nobles with chains of iron,
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to execute on them the judgment decreed. This is glory for all his faithful ones. Praise the Lord!
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Psalms 149:6-9 Meaning and Commentary
INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 149
This psalm is thought by Calvin and others to have been written for the sake of the Jews that returned from the Babylonish captivity; and is a prediction of great and famous things done in the times of the Maccabees to Heathens and their princes, so Theodoret; the Syriac version entitles it,
``concerning the new temple;''
that is, the second temple, built by Zerubbabel, and the things done under that; but it rather seems to have been written by David in the beginning of his reign, when he obtained victories over the Philistines, Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, and Syrians; and refers to the times of the Messiah, as Kimchi, R. Obadiah Gaon, and others think; not of the Jews' vainly expected Messiah, but of the true Messiah, who is come, and will come again, spiritually and personally; and there are many things in it applicable both to the first and latter part of his days.
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Taken from John Gill's Exposition of the Bible
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