Psalms 149:9
To execute on them the judgment written: 1 This honor have all his saints.
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
In Context
8To bind their kings with fetters, 1 And their nobles with manacles of iron; 1
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:1And when the Lord thy God shall bring thee into the land, into which thou goest to possess it, and shall remove great nations from before thee, the Hittite, and Girgashite, and Amorite, and Canaanite, and Perizzite, and Hivite, and Jebusite, seven nations more numerous and stronger than you,
Deuteronomy 32:42I will make my weapons drunk with blood, 1 And my sword shall devour flesh, 1 It shall glut itself with the blood of the wounded, and from the captivity 1 Of the heads of their enemies that rule over them. 1
Psalms 148:14And he shall exalt the horn of his people, 1 There is a hymn for all his saints, 1 Even of the children of Israel, a people who draw near to him.
Ezekiel 28:26Yea, they shall dwell upon it safely, and they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell securely, when I shall execute judgment on all that have dishonored them, even on those that are round about them; and they shall know that I am the Lord their God, and the God of their fathers.
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 →