Psalms 149:7
To do vengeance among nations, Punishments among the peoples.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
In Context
6The exaltation of God [is] in their throat, And a two-edged sword in their hand.
8To bind their kings with chains, And their honoured ones with fetters of iron,
Cross References
Numbers 31:2'Execute the vengeance of the sons of Israel against the Midianites — afterwards thou art gathered unto thy people.'
Judges 5:23Curse Meroz — said a messenger of Jehovah, Cursing, curse ye its inhabitants, For they came not to the help of Jehovah, To the help of Jehovah among the mighty!
1 Samuel 15:18and Jehovah sendeth thee in the way, and saith, Go, and thou hast devoted the sinners, the Amalekite, and fought against them till they are consumed;
Esther 9:22as days on which the Jews have rested from their enemies, and the month that hath been turned to them from sorrow to joy, and from mourning to a good day, to make them days of banquet and of joy, and of sending portions one to another, and gifts to the needy.
Micah 5:14And I have plucked up thy shrines out of thy midst, And I have destroyed thine enemies.
Zechariah 14:17And it hath come to pass, That he who doth not go up of the families of the land unto Jerusalem, To bow himself to the King, Jehovah of Hosts, Even on them there is no shower.
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 →