Salmos 149:2-9

2 Alégrese Israel en su Creador; regocíjense los hijos de Sion en su Rey.

3 Alaben su nombre con danza; cántenle alabanza con pandero y lira.

4 Porque el SEÑOR se deleita en su pueblo; adornará de salvación a los afligidos.

5 Regocíjense de gloria los santos; canten con gozo sobre sus camas.

6 Sean los loores de Dios en su boca, y una espada de dos filos en su mano,

7 para ejecutar venganza en las naciones, y castigo en los pueblos;

8 para atar a sus reyes con cadenas, y a sus nobles con grillos de hierro;

9 para ejecutar en ellos el juicio decretado: esto es gloria para todos sus santos. ¡Aleluya!

Salmos 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.