Salmos 149:3-9

3 Alaba su nombre con danza,
y acompáñala con panderetas y arpas,

4 porque el Señor
se deleita en su pueblo;
él corona al humilde con victoria.

5 Que los fieles se alegren de que él los honra;
que canten de alegría mientras descansan en sus camas.

6 Que las alabanzas de Dios estén en sus labios
y tengan una espada afilada en las manos,

7 para tomar venganza contra las naciones
y castigar a los pueblos,

8 para encadenar a sus reyes con grilletes
y a sus líderes con cadenas de hierro,

9 para ejecutar el juicio que está escrito contra ellos.
Este es el privilegio glorioso que tienen sus fieles.
¡Alabado sea el Señor
!

Salmos 149:3-9 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.