Salmos 149:1-8

1 ¡Aleluya! ¡Alabado sea el SEÑOR!Canten al SEÑOR un cántico nuevo,alábenlo en la comunidad de los fieles.

2 Que se alegre Israel por su creador;que se regocijen los hijos de Sión por su rey.

3 Que alaben su nombre con danzas;que le canten salmos al son de la lira y el pandero.

4 Porque el SEÑOR se complace en su pueblo;a los humildes concede el honor de la victoria.

5 Que se alegren los fieles por su triunfo;^[a]que aun en sus camas griten de júbilo.

6 Que broten de su garganta alabanzas a Dios,y haya en sus manos una espada de dos filos

7 para que tomen venganza de las nacionesy castiguen a los pueblos;

8 para que sujeten a sus reyes con cadenas,a sus nobles con grilletes de hierro;

Salmos 149:1-8 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.

Footnotes

• [a]. "por su triunfo" . Lit. "en gloria" .