Psalms 149:7
To execute vengeance against the nations, [and] punishment among the peoples;
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
In Context
6Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand:
8To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
Cross References
Numbers 31:2Avenge the children of Israel upon the Midianites; afterwards shalt thou be gathered unto thy peoples.
Judges 5:23Curse Meroz, saith the Angel of Jehovah; Curse, curse the inhabitants thereof; For they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah among the mighty.
1 Samuel 15:18And Jehovah sent thee on a way and said, Go and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they be consumed.
Esther 9:22as the days on which the Jews rested from their enemies, and the month that was turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning into a good day; that they should make them days of feasting and joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the poor.
Micah 5:14And I will pluck up thine Asherahs out of the midst of thee, and I will destroy thy cities.
Zechariah 14:17And it shall be, that whoso goeth not up of the families of the earth unto Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of hosts, upon them 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 →