Psalms 149:9
To execute upon them the sentence written, An honour, shall it be to all his men of lovingkindness. Praise ye Yah!
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
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, and their honoured ones with iron bands:
Cross References
Deuteronomy 7:1When Yahweh thy God shall bring thee into the land which thou art going in to possess, and shall clear away many nations from before thee—the Hittites and the Girgashites and the Amorites, and the Canaanites and the Perizzites, and the Hivites and the Jebusites—seven nations greater in number and stronger than thou;
Deuteronomy 32:42I will make mine arrows drunk with blood, And, my sword, shall devour flesh,—With the blood of the slain and the captive, With the flesh of the chief leader of the foe.
Psalms 148:14Therefore hath he exalted a horn for his people, a praise for all his men of lovingkindness, for the sons of Israel—a people near him, Praise ye Yah!
Ezekiel 28:26Yea they shall dwell thereupon securely, Yea shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and dwell securely,— When I have executed judgments on all that despised them on every side of them, So shall they know that, I, Yahweh am their God
1 Corinthians 6:2Or know ye not that, the saints, shall judge the world? And, if, by you, the world, is to be judged, unworthy are ye of the smallest judgment-seats?
Revelation 17:14These, with the Lamb, will make war; and, the Lamb, will overcome them, because he is, Lord of lords, and King of kings,—and, they who are with him, are called and chosen and faithful.
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 →