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5Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds.

Psalms 149:5

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From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

  • But none saith, Where is God my maker, who giveth songs in the night;

  • Yet the LORD will command his lovingkindness in the daytime, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life.

  • Whom having not seen, ye love; in whom, though now ye see him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unspeakable and full of glory:

  • The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tabernacles of the righteous: the right hand of the LORD doeth valiantly.

  • All thy works shall praise thee, O LORD; and thy saints shall bless thee.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-5)

We have here, I. The calls given to God’s Israel to praise. All his works were, in the foregoing psalm, excited to praise him ; but here his saints in a particular manner are required to bless him. Observe then, 1. Who are called upon to praise God. Israel in general, the body of the church (Ps. 149:2), the children of Zion particularly, the inhabitants of that holy hill, who are nearer to God tha…

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