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Psalm 149
- Purpose
- To offer praise and prayer to God, to supply God’s people with texts for worship, and to provide reflection on the sovereignty of God and some of life’s toughest questions
- Author
- Various; nearly half are linked with David
- Date
- Written over the course of many centuries; the process of collecting and editing was likely completed after the Babylonian exile
- Setting
- Varied, but a postexilic setting accounts for much of the editorial activity and grouping of the psalms
Psalms has 36,194 words: about 2 hours 32 minutes to read, or 4 hours 18 minutes to listen to. Read it from the start or listen from the start.
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Footnotes
Sing to the LORD a New Song
1Hallelujah!footnote aSing to the LORD a new song—His praise in the assembly of the godly. 2Let Israel rejoice in their Maker;let the children of Zion rejoice in their King. 3Let them praise His name with dancing,and make music to Him with tambourine and harp. 4For the LORD takes pleasure in His people;He adorns the afflicted with salvation. 5Let the saints exult in glory;let them shout for joy upon their beds.
6May the high praises of God be in their mouths,and a double-edged sword in their hands, 7to inflict vengeance on the nationsand punishment on the peoples, 8to bind their kings with chainsand their nobles with shackles of iron, 9to execute the judgment written against them.This honor is for all His saints.Hallelujah!
Footnotes
- a 149:1 Or Hallelu YAH, meaning Praise the LORD; also in verse 9
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