“ To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; ”
To execute vengeance upon the heathen - To inflict punishment upon them as a recompence for their sins. The word pagan here means nations. The allusion is, doubtless, to those who had oppressed a...
(e) To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [and] punishments upon the people; (e) This is chiefly accomplished in the kingdom of Christ when God's people for just causes execute God's judgments agai...
CXLIX. A Song of Triumph and Messianic Expectation. Obviously this Ps. depicts a stage in the Maccabean war. It is addressed to the assembly of the saints, the Hasidim of Psalms 4:3 . The heroes w...
heathen . nations. people . peoples.
7. To execute vengeance, etc. Both during their exile and after their return from it, this might seem to be altogether incredible. Nor did it take place before the advent of Christ; for thoug...
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; To execute vengeance upon the heathen - This may refer simply to their purpose of defending themselves to the uttermost, shou...
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people; To execute vengeance upon the heathen - as the Maccabees (according to the prophetic anticipation here) subsequently di...
A song of praise to God who gives the victory, including vengeance on the enemies of Israel.
Heathen ... people. — Rather, nations ... peoples.
Psalms 149:1-9 IN the preceding psalm Israel's restoration was connected with the recognition by all creatures and especially by the kings of the earth and their people, of Jehovah's glory. This p...
the Praise-Songs of God's People Psalms 149:1-9 ; Psalms 150:1-6 Israel was formed into a nation and delivered from Babylon, that her singers should lead the praises of mankind, and her teache...
As the last song ended by the recognition of the place of the saints in expressing the universal praise of Jehovah, this one enlarges the thought by confining itself wholly to the anthem of saints. “...
These are all so many gracious calls to the redeemed, to praise God in Christ everywhere, at home and abroad; when upon their beds, and when elsewhere; in the church, and in the closet. And they seem...
To execute vengeance upon the Heathen ,.... Either upon the Gentile world, in the first times of the Gospel; when the apostles, going there with the twoedged sword of the word, vehemently inveighed...
To execute vengeance upon the heathen, [and] punishments upon the people; Ver. 7. To execute vengeance upon the heathen ] viz. Upon a just calling, and not for private revenge; yea, that soldier c...
Let the saints be joyful in glory For the honour which God puts upon them. Let them sing aloud upon their beds By night as well as by day, in the time usually devoted to rest and sleep, which the...
Israel Admonished to Praise God. 6 Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their h...
For all their cruelties and injuries towards God's people. This was literally accomplished by David upon the Philistines, Ammonites, Syrians, and other neighbouring nations and princes, which were bi...
INTRODUCTION This Psalm, like the others of the series of which it forms a part, bears evident traces both in style and language, and in the feelings which it expresses, of belonging to the post-exi...
The whole Book of Psalms is full of praise, but the praise culminates at the close. There are five «Hallelujah Psalms» at the end of the Book; they are so named because they both begin and conclude w...
This is a grand ode of thanksgiving after victory; it is applied by the rabbi Kimchi to the days of the Messiah. The pious Hebrews always hang by the anchor of their hope. Psalms 149:3 . Praise hi...
Sing unto the Lord a new song. The song of the saints 1. The elect, regenerate, or true believers have a song of their own for mercies proper to them, beside the praise which they have to give...
EXPOSITION A "Hallelujah Psalm," combining the praise of God for mercies already received with anticipations of future vengeance, through God's help, on heathen enemies that are still bent on pe...
Hallelujah to the God of Victory. A song of praise exhorting particularly the chosen people, the true believers, to praise God for favors of the past, as well as for future victories, which His pr...
1 Samuel 15:18-23 ; 1 Samuel 15:2 ; 1 Samuel 15:3 ; Judges 5:23 ; Numbers 31:2 ; Numbers 31:3 ; Psalms 137:8 ; Psalms 137:9 ; Revelation 19:11-21 ; Zechariah 14:17-19 ; Zechariah 9:13-16
Vengeance — For all their cruelties and injuries towards God's people. This was literally accomplished by David upon the Philistines, Ammonites, Syrians and other neighbouring nations.