Psalms 149:7
to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments among the peoples; 1
LXX2012 (US English)
In The King James Version
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 31:2Avenge the + 31:2 Gr. vengeance. wrongs of the children of Israel on the Madianites, and + 31:2 Gr. last. afterwards you shall be added to your people.
Judges 5:23to curse Meroz: Curse you⌃ it, said the angel of the Lord; cursed is every one that dwells in it, because they came not to the help of the Lord, to his help among the mighty.
1 Samuel 15:18And the Lord sent you on a journey, and said to you, Go, and utterly destroy: you shall kill the sinners against me, even the Amalekites; and you shall war against them until you have consumed them.
Esther 9:22for on these days the Jews obtained rest from their enemies; and as to the month, which was Adar, in which a change was made for them, from mourning to joy, and from sorrow to a good day, to spend the whole of it in good days of + 9:22 Gr. weddings. feasting and gladness, sending portions to their friends, and to the poor.
Micah 5:14And I will cut off the groves out of the midst of you, and I will abolish your cities.
Zechariah 14:17And it shall come to pass, that whoever of all the families of the earth shall not come up to Jerusalem to worship the king, the Lord Almighty, even these shall be added to the others.
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 →