psalm-149:3

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible - Psalms 149:3

According to the usage of that time and dispensation. read more

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary - Psalms 149:1-9

INTRODUCTIONThis Psalm, like the others of the series of which it forms a part, bears evident traces both in style and language, and in the feelings which it expresses, of belonging to the post-exile literature. It was probably composed soon after the return from the captivity in Babylon. “It breathes,” says Perowne, “the spirit of intense joy and eager hope which must have been in the very nature of things characteristic of the period which succeeded the return from the Babylonish captivity.... read more

Chuck Smith

Chuck Smith Bible Commentary - Psalms 149:1-9

Psalms 149:1-9 Praise the LORD. Sing unto the LORD a new song, and his praise in the congregation of the saints. Let Israel rejoice in him that made him: let the children of Zion be joyful in their King. Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and the harp. For the LORD takes pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation. Let the saints be joyful in glory: and let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be in... read more

Joseph Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments - Psalms 149:1-9

This is a grand ode of thanksgiving after victory; it is applied by the rabbi Kimchi to the days of the Messiah. The pious Hebrews always hang by the anchor of their hope. Psalms 149:3 . Praise his name in the dance. במחול Be-machol. Latin, in choro. It appears from the fourth verse of the next psalm, that this was an instrument of music, because it is put there between the instruments of music. Certainly they did not dance in the worship of the temple. The timbrel. Hebrews תפ toph. ... read more

Joseph Exell

The Biblical Illustrator - Psalms 149:1-9

Psalms 149:1-9Sing unto the Lord a new song.The song of the saints1. The elect, regenerate, or true believers have a song of their own for mercies proper to them, beside the praise which they have to give for the Lord’s work round about them, and therefore they have a proper reason to praise God for their own particular.2. The song of the redeemed elect and converted is a new song which shall never wax old, nor be cut off, an everlasting song.3. It is God’s ordinance that the worshippers of the... read more

John Trapp

John Trapp Complete Commentary - Psalms 149:3

Psa 149:3 Let them praise his name in the dance: let them sing praises unto him with the timbrel and harp. Ver. 3. Let them praise his name in the dance ] Or, with the pipe, tibiis et tympanis et omni musices organicae genere, by all lawful means possible. read more

Samuel Bagster

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge - Psalms 149:3

in the dance: or, with the pipe, Psalms 150:4, *marg. Exodus 15:20, Judges 11:34, 2 Samuel 6:16, Jeremiah 31:13 with the timbrel: Psalms 33:2, Psalms 81:2, Psalms 137:2-Numbers :, Psalms 150:3-Deuteronomy :, 1 Chronicles 15:28, 1 Chronicles 15:29, 1 Chronicles 16:42, 1 Chronicles 25:6, 2 Chronicles 29:25, Ezra 3:10 Reciprocal: Judges 21:21 - dance 2 Samuel 6:14 - danced 1 Chronicles 15:16 - the singers 2 Chronicles 5:12 - cymbals 2 Chronicles 20:28 - with psalteries Nehemiah 12:27 -... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - Psalms 149:3

3. In the dance Hebrew, With the mahhol. מחול , ( mahhol) from חול , ( hhool,) to twist, turn, writhe, is supposed to indicate the “dance,” from the twisted and contorted motions of the actor, or the round “dance,” dancing in a circle. It occurs, with its derivative mehhoolah, fourteen times, and is always translated “dance” in our English Version, except once, (Song of Solomon 6:13,) though in the text, and in Psalms 150:4, the marginal reading is pipe, which is probably the... read more