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Psalm 149 Majority Standard Bible

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Notes on this text (1)

1 Hallelujah! Sing to the LORD a new song—His praise in the assembly of the godly. 2 Let Israel rejoice in their Maker; let the children of Zion rejoice in their King. 3 Let them praise His name with dancing, and make music to Him with tambourine and harp. 4 For the LORD takes pleasure in His people; He adorns the afflicted with salvation. 5 Let the saints exult in glory; let them shout for joy upon their beds. 6 May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a double-edged sword in their hands, 7 to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples, 8 to bind their kings with chains and their nobles with shackles of iron, 9 to execute the judgment written against them. This honor is for all His saints. Hallelujah!

Cross references (9)

Related passages for each verse, from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge as collected and ranked by readers at OpenBible.info.

  1. 1 Psalm 33:3; Revelation 5:9; Psalm 148:1; Hebrews 2:12; Isaiah 42:10
  2. 2 Psalm 100:1–3; Psalm 95:6; Isaiah 54:5; Isaiah 52:7; Joel 2:23
  3. 3 Jeremiah 31:13; Psalm 81:2; 1 Chronicles 15:28–29; Exodus 15:20; 2 Samuel 6:14
  4. 4 Psalm 147:11; 1 Peter 3:4; Psalm 35:27; Psalm 132:16; Zephaniah 3:17
  5. 5 Job 35:10; Psalm 42:8; 1 Peter 1:8; Psalm 118:15; Psalm 145:10
  6. 6 Hebrews 4:12; Psalm 66:17; Revelation 1:16; Revelation 19:6; Nehemiah 9:5
  7. 7 Zechariah 14:17–19; 1 Samuel 15:2–3; Revelation 19:11–21; 1 Samuel 15:18–23; Numbers 31:2–3
  8. 8 Joshua 12:7; Joshua 10:23–24; Judges 1:6–7; Job 36:8
  9. 9 1 Corinthians 6:2–3; Psalm 148:14; Psalm 137:8; Deuteronomy 32:42–43; Deuteronomy 7:1–2

Cross references: OpenBible.info (CC BY), drawn mainly from the public-domain Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. · Sources & licences

What the Fathers said

Passages from the Church Fathers that expound or quote this chapter, verbatim from the public-domain Schaff edition (19th-century English translations).

How these were chosen

“Commentary” is the opening of a homily or exposition on this chapter (John Chrysostom’s homilies, Augustine’s tractates, sermons and expositions of the Psalms). “Quotes” are sentences where the edition’s own footnotes identify a quotation of a verse here, kept only when the wording matches the verse. Only works whose authorship is not in doubt are used. Psalms follow the Hebrew/English numbering (Augustine numbers them as the Septuagint does: his Psalm 50 is Psalm 51 here).

  1. Commentary Augustine of Hippo, Expositions on the Psalms (Psalm CXLIX)

    Let us praise the Lord both in voice, and in understanding, and in good works; and, as this Psalm exhorteth, let us sing unto Him a new song. It beginneth: "Sing ye to the Lord a new song. His praise is in the Church of the Saints" (ver. 1).

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 1, vol. 8 (1888)

  2. Quotes verse 149:1 Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures (Lecture XVIII)

    For now that the one Church in Judæa is cast off, the Churches of Christ are increased over all the world; and of them it is said in the Psalms, Sing unto the Lord a new song, His praise in the Congregation of Saints.

    Read in context · Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers, series 2, vol. 7 (1894)