Psalms 149:7
to execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
World English Bible British with Deuterocanon
In The King James Version
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
In Context
6May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand,
8to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;
Cross References
Numbers 31:2“Avenge the children of Israel on the Midianites. Afterward you shall be gathered to your people.”
Judges 5:23‘Curse Meroz,’ said the LORD’s angel. ‘Curse bitterly its inhabitants, because they didn’t come to help the LORD, to help the LORD against the mighty.’
1 Samuel 15:18and the LORD sent you on a journey, and said, ‘Go, and utterly destroy the sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them until they are 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 holiday; that they should make them days of feasting and gladness, and of sending presents of food to one another, and gifts to the needy.
Micah 5:14I will uproot your Asherah poles from amongst you; and I will destroy your cities.
Zechariah 14:17It will be that whoever of all the families of the earth doesn’t go up to Jerusalem to worship the King, the LORD of Armies, on them there will 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 →