Psalm 149:2-9

2 Israel freue sich seines Schöpfers; die Kinder Zions sollen frohlocken über ihren König!

3 Loben sollen sie seinen Namen mit Reigen, mit Tamburin und Laute ihm Psalmen singen!

4 Denn Jehova hat Wohlgefallen an seinem Volke; er schmückt die Sanftmütigen mit Rettung.

5 Es sollen jubeln die Frommen in Herrlichkeit, jauchzen auf ihren Lagern!

6 Lobeserhebungen Gottes seien in ihrer Kehle, und ein zweischneidiges Schwert in ihrer Hand,

7 um Rache auszuüben an den Nationen, Bestrafungen an den Völkerschaften;

8 ihre Könige zu binden mit Ketten, und ihre Edlen mit eisernen Fesseln;

9 an ihnen auszuüben das geschriebene Gericht! Das ist die Ehre aller seiner Frommen. Lobet Jehova!

Psalm 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.