Psalms Chapter 149

                                                                        1Hallelujah!

Sing the LORD a new song;

      praise him in the assembly of his holy people.

2 Be happy in your Maker, Israel;

      celebrate your King, people of Zion.

3 Praise him with dancing;

            sing praises with tambourines and lyres,

         4because the LORD delights in you

            and graces harassed people with deliverance.           

Ps 149:1-4

5 Holy people, celebrate in glory;

      sing for joy on your couches.

6 Have the high praises of God in your voices

            and two-edged swords in your hands

      7 to carry out vengeance on nations

            and punishment on peoples,

      8 to bind kings with chains

            and nobles with iron restraints,

      9 to carry out prescribed judgment on them.

            That’s an honor for all his holy people.

                                                                        10Hallelujah!                          Ps 149:5-10       

From the CNT translation by Virgil Warren, PhD