“ To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; ”
To bind their kings with chains - To make them prisoners and captives. This is but carrying out the idea in the previous verses, of inflicting punishment upon them for the wrongs which they had d...
To bind (f) their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; (f) Not only the people, but the kings who were their enemies should be destroyed.
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...
The next verse, where mention is made of kings and nobles, is an amplification; for had he only spoken of peoples and nations, this might have been restricted to the common people and men...
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron - That is, if these kings, governors of provinces, and c...
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron - just as Joseph, when exalted from a dungeon to...
A song of praise to God who gives the victory, including vengeance on the enemies of Israel.
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 bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron. Which is thought to allude to what was done to the Canaanitish kings, in the times of Joshua; and to the princes of Midian by...
To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron; Ver. 8. To bind their kings with chains ] Restraining their vices, and bringing them to the obedience of faith. See Isaiah...
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...
See Poole on " Psalms 149:7 " .
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...
Joshua 10:23 ; Joshua 10:24 ; Joshua 12:7 ; Judges 1:6 ; Judges 1:7