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to execute vengeance on the nations
and punishment on the peoples,[a]
to bind their kings with chains
and their nobles[b] with fetters of iron,
to execute on them the judgment that is decreed.[c]
This will be honor for all his faithful ones;
Praise Yah.[d]

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Footnotes

  1. Psalm 149:7 Reading against the MT and with the LXX
  2. Psalm 149:8 Literally “honorable ones”
  3. Psalm 149:9 Hebrew “written”
  4. Psalm 149:9 Hebrew hallelujah

to inflict vengeance(A) on the nations
    and punishment(B) on the peoples,
to bind their kings with fetters,(C)
    their nobles with shackles of iron,(D)
to carry out the sentence written against them—(E)
    this is the glory of all his faithful people.(F)

Praise the Lord.

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To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;

To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;

To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord.

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