Psalm 149:1-6

1 Louez l'Eternel! Chantez à l'Eternel un cantique nouveau! Chantez ses louanges dans l'assemblée des fidèles!

2 Qu'Israël se réjouisse en celui qui l'a créé! Que les fils de Sion soient dans l'allégresse à cause de leur roi!

3 Qu'ils louent son nom avec des danses, Qu'ils le célèbrent avec le tambourin et la harpe!

4 Car l'Eternel prend plaisir à son peuple, Il glorifie les malheureux en les sauvant.

5 Que les fidèles triomphent dans la gloire, Qu'ils poussent des cris de joie sur leur couche!

6 Que les louanges de Dieu soient dans leur bouche, Et le glaive à deux tranchants dans leur main,

Psalm 149:1-6 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.