...edged sword in their hands, to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishment upon the people; and bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron ; to execute upon them the judgments written ! This honour hath all his saints." The conspirators, accordingly, as a first step...

...are probably, if we compare verse 8, these same risen saints, who receive "the two edged sword" — "to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments...fetters of iron; to execute upon them the judgment; [as it is] written — This honour have all his saints. Praise ye the Lord."* * Compare Psalm cxlix....

...cxlix. 6 — 9, ' Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand; to execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments...nobles with fetters of iron ; to execute upon them the judgments written : this honour have all the saints. Praise ye the Lord.' In a moral sense it compriseth...

...of the testimony in the 149th Psalm, which declares that they have "a two-edged sword in their hand, to execute vengeance upon the heathen and punishments...with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron." Such is implied in Rev. ii. 26, just referred to, where in addition to "power over the nations" it...

...and a sharp two-edged sword in their hand, to execute the vengeance upon the heathen, and punishment upon the people, to bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron ; to execute the judgment written — for they also shall judge angels; and their vile bodies shall, in the resurrection,...

...and stretching an arm out to seize the im1 Psalm 149:9 undertakes to punish tyrants with enslavement: 'To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron' . 2 Hagar, wife of the eighty-six-year-old Abraham, conceives her son Ishmael extra-maritally, with...

...(long long) which occasionally produces something like the hexameter verse of Greek and Latin poetry : "Bind their / kings with / chains, and their / nobles with / fetters of/ iron" (Psalm 149: 8); "How art thou / fallen from / heaven, O/ Lucifer, / son of the/ morning!" (Isa. 14:...

...Binding and Loosing Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a twoedged sword in their hand; To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments...iron; To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all His saints. Praise ye the Lord. Matthew 16:19 And I will give unto thee the keys of...

..."Congregation of saints" were found singing Psalm 149 with militant overtones - a psalm that appealed to God, "To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments...kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron."33 To Baxter that kind of appeal to Old Testament violence summoned memories of the civil war...

...'high praises of God in their mouths, and a fwo-edged sword in their hands, were to execute judgment on the heathen, and punishments upon the people, to bind...kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron.'10 When he goes on to describe Price in terms of a prophet whose 'enthusiasm kindles as he advances',...