Psalms 149:7
to execute vengeance upon the nations, and punishments upon the peoples,
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
In Context
6The high praises of God [are] in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand
8to bind their kings with chains, and their ranking men with fetters of iron,
Cross References
Numbers 31:2Avenge the sons of Israel of the Midianites. Afterward thou shall be gathered to thy people.
Judges 5:23Curse ye Meroz, said the agent of LORD. Curse ye bitterly the inhabitants of it, because they did not come to the help of LORD, to the help of LORD against the mighty.
1 Samuel 15:18And LORD sent thee on a journey, and said, Go, and utterly destroy the sinners, the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
Esther 9:22as the days in which the Jews had rest from their enemies. And the month which was turned to them from sorrow to gladness, and from mourning into a good day, that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending
Micah 5:14And I will pluck up thine Asherim out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy cities.
Zechariah 14:17And it shall be, that of the families of the earth he who does not go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, LORD of hosts, upon them there shall be no rain.
Matthew Henry on Psalms 149:7-9
Israel Admonished to Praise God. 6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; 7 To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; 8 To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; 9 To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord . The Israel of God are here represented triumphing over their enemies, which is both the matter of their praise (let them give to God the glory of those… Read the whole commentary →