Psalms 149:4 - Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Bible Comments

For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.

For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people - (Psalms 147:10-11.)

He will beautify the meek with salvation - parallel to Psalms 147:6. "The meek" are the literal, Israel, heretofore crushed down, primarily (with 'beautify," cf. Isaiah 52:1, "put on thy beautiful garments, O Jerusalem"); then, in the secondary sense, the spiritual Israel, one of whose leading graces is meekness (Matthew 5:5).

Psalms 149:4

4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.