Psalm

Praise to God for His Future Judgment

149 
Praise Yah.[a]

Sing to Yahweh a new song,

his praise in the assembly of the faithful.

Let Israel be glad in its maker;

let the children of Zion rejoice in their king.

Let them praise his name with dancing;

let them sing praises to him with tambourine and lyre.

For Yahweh takes pleasure in his people;

he glorifies the afflicted with salvation.

Let the faithful exult in glory;

let them sing for joy on their beds.

Let the extolling of God be in their throat,

and a double-edged sword in their hand,

to execute vengeance on the nations

and punishment on the peoples,[b]

to bind their kings with chains

and their nobles[c] with fetters of iron,

to execute on them the judgment that is decreed.[d]

This will be honor for all his faithful ones;

Praise Yah.[e]

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 149:1 Hebrew hallelujah
  2. Psalm 149:7 Reading against the MT and with the LXX
  3. Psalm 149:8 Literally “honorable ones”
  4. Psalm 149:9 Hebrew “written”
  5. Psalm 149:9 Hebrew hallelujah