Psalms 149:7
To execute vengeance vpon the heathen, and corrections among the people:
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
In Context
6Let the high Actes of God bee in their mouth, and a two edged sword in their hands,
8To binde their Kings in chaines, and their nobles with fetters of yron,
Cross References
Numbers 31:2Reuenge the children of Israel of the Midianites, and afterwarde shalt thou be gathered vnto thy people.
Judges 5:23Curse ye Meroz: (sayd the Angel of the Lord) curse the inhabitantes thereof, because they came not to helpe the Lord, to helpe the Lord against the mighty.
1 Samuel 15:18And the Lord sent thee on a iourney, and saide, Goe, and destroy those sinners the Amalekites, and fight against them, vntill thou destroy them.
Esther 9:22According to the dayes wherein the Iewes rested from their enemies, and the moneth which was turned vnto them from sorowe to ioy, and from mourning into a ioyfull day, to keepe them the dayes of feasting, and ioy, and to sende presents euery man to his neyghbour, and giftes to the poore.
Micah 5:14And I wil plucke vp thy groues out of the middes of thee: so will I destroy thine enemies.
Zechariah 14:17And who so will not come vp of all the families of the earth vnto Ierusalem to worship the King the Lord of hostes, euen vpon them shall come no raine.
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 →