Salmi 149:2-9

2 Si rallegri Israele in colui che lo ha fatto, esultino i figliuoli di Sion nel loro re.
3 Lodino il suo nome con danze, gli salmeggino col timpano e la cetra,
4 perché l’Eterno prende piacere nel suo popolo, egli adorna di salvezza gli umili.
5 Esultino i fedeli adorni di gloria, cantino di gioia sui loro letti.
6 Abbiano in bocca le alte lodi di Dio, una spada a due tagli in mano
7 per far vendetta delle nazioni e infligger castighi ai popoli;
8 per legare i loro re con catene e i loro nobili con ceppi di ferro,
9 per eseguir su loro il giudizio scritto. Questo è l’onore che hanno tutti i suoi fedeli. Alleluia.

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Salmi 149:2-9 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 149

This psalm is thought by Calvin and others to have been written for the sake of the Jews that returned from the Babylonish captivity; and is a prediction of great and famous things done in the times of the Maccabees to Heathens and their princes, so Theodoret; the Syriac version entitles it,

``concerning the new temple;''

that is, the second temple, built by Zerubbabel, and the things done under that; but it rather seems to have been written by David in the beginning of his reign, when he obtained victories over the Philistines, Edomites, Moabites, Ammonites, and Syrians; and refers to the times of the Messiah, as Kimchi, R. Obadiah Gaon, and others think; not of the Jews' vainly expected Messiah, but of the true Messiah, who is come, and will come again, spiritually and personally; and there are many things in it applicable both to the first and latter part of his days.

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