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# Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

*Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset and David Brown*

The Victorian standard commentary, critical and practical, from Genesis to Revelation.

## 250. Psalms · 57 of 57

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### Psalm 149

### Psa 149:1-9. This Psalm sustains a close connection with the foregoing. The chosen people are exhorted to praise God, in view of past favors, and also future victories over enemies, of which they are impliedly assured

[¶2] 1. (Compare [Psa 96:1]).

[¶3] 2. God had signalized His relation as a sovereign, in restoring them to their land.

[¶4] 3. in 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.

[¶5] sing praises--or, sing and play.

[¶6] 4. taketh pleasure--literally, "accepts," alluding to acceptance of propitiatory offerings (compare [Psa 147:11]).

[¶7] beautify, &c.--adorn the humble with faith, hope, joy, and peace.

[¶8] 5. in glory--the honorable condition to which they are raised.

[¶9] upon their beds--once a place of mourning ([Psa 6:6]).

[¶10] 6. high praises--or, "deeds." They shall go forth as religious warriors, as once religious laborers ([Ne 4:17]).

[¶11] 7. The 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.

[¶12] 9. the judgment written--either in God's decrees, or perhaps as in [De 32:41-43].

[¶13] this honour--that is, to be thus employed, will be an honorable service, to be assigned

[¶14] his saints--or, godly ones ([Psa 16:3]).

### Psalm 150

### Psa 150:1-6. This is a suitable doxology for the whole book, reciting the "place, theme, mode, and extent of God's high praise."

[¶17] 1. in his sanctuary--on earth.

[¶18] firmament of his power--which illustrates His power.

[¶19] 2. mighty acts--([Psa 145:4]).

[¶20] excellent greatness--or, abundance of greatness.

[¶21] 3-4. trumpet--used to call religious assemblies;

[¶22] 5. cymbals--suited to loud praise ([Ne 12:27]).

[¶23] 6. Living voices shall take up the failing sounds of dead instruments, and as they cease on earth, those of intelligent ransomed spirits and holy angels, as with the sound of mighty thunders, will prolong eternally the praise, saying: "Alleluia! Salvation, and Glory, and Honor, and Power, unto the Lord our God;" "Alleluia! for the Lord God omnipotent reigneth." Amen!