{"collection":"Bible & Christianity","html_url":"https://unchartedknowledge.5gfusion.net/browse/bib/cmt/jfb/psa149.htm","path":"bib/cmt/jfb/psa149.htm","source_url":"https://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/jfb/psa149.htm","text":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]\n(Compare Psa 96:1).\nGod had signalized His relation as a sovereign, in restoring them to their land.\nin the dance-- (Psa 30:11). The dance is connected with other terms, expressive of the great joy of the occasion. The word may be rendered \"lute,\" to which the other instruments are joined.\nsing praises--or, sing and play.\ntaketh pleasure--literally, \"accepts,\" alluding to acceptance of propitiatory offerings (compare Psa 147:11).\nbeautify, &c.--adorn the humble with faith, hope, joy, and peace.\nin glory--the honorable condition to which they are raised.\nupon their beds--once a place of mourning (Psa 6:6).\nhigh praises--or, \"deeds.\" They shall go forth as religious warriors, as once religious laborers (Neh 4:17).\nThe destruction of the incorrigibly wicked attends the propagation of God's truth, so that the military successes of the Jews, after the captivity, typified the triumphs of the Gospel.\nthe judgment written--either in God's decrees, or perhaps as in Deu 32:41-43.\nthis honour--that is, to be thus employed, will be an honorable service, to be assigned\nhis saints--or, godly ones (Psa 16:3).","title":"A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments: Psalms: Psalms Chapter 149","type":"page"}