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Psalms 149

1 An exhortation to the Church to praise the Lord for his victorie and conquest that he giveth his Saints against all man’s power.
1.Sing ye unto the Lord aa new song: let his praise be heard in the Congregation of Saints.
2.Let Israél rejoyce in him that bmade him, and let the children of Zión rejoyce in their cKing.
3.Let them praise his Name with the flute: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harpe.
4.For the Lord hathe pleasure in his people: he wil make the meke glorious by deliverance.
5.Let the Saints be joyful with glorie: let them sing loude upon their dbeddes.
6.Let the high Actes of God be in their mouth, and a two edged sworde in their hands,
7.eTo execute vengeance upon the heathen, and corrections among the people:
8.To binde ftheir Kings in chaines, and their nobles with fetters of yron,
9.That they maye execute upon them the judgement that is

Notes

1-a.
For his rare and manifold benefits bestowed on his Church.
2-b.
In that that they were preferred before all other nations, it was as a new creation, and therefore Ps. 95.6, they were called the work of God’s hands.
2-c.
For God as he is the Creator of the soul and body so wills he that both two serve him, and that his people be continually subject unto him as to their most lawful King.
5-d.
He alludes to that continual rest, and quietness, which they should have, if they would suffer God to rule them.
7-e.
This is chiefly accomplished in the kingdom of Christ, when God’s people for just causes execute God’s judgements against his enemies: and it gives no liberty to any to revenge their private injuries.
8-f.
Not only the people but the Kings, that were their enemies, should be destroyed.
9-g.
Hereby God binds the hands and minds of all his to enterprise no farther then he appoints.