to execute the judgment written against them. This honor is for all His saints. Hallelujah!
Parallel translations
- WEB to execute on them the written judgment. All his saints have this honor. Praise Yah!
- KJV To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
- NKJV To execute on them the written judgment— This honor have all His saints. Praise the Lord!
- NASB To execute against them the judgment written. This is an honor for all His godly ones. Praise the Lord!
- NLT to execute the judgment written against them. This is the glorious privilege of his faithful ones. Praise the Lord!
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Quick answer
The saints carry out the judgment already written in God's word, and the psalm declares this to be an honor belonging to all His people, ending with praise.
Overview
God's judgments are not arbitrary but conform to His revealed word, so His people act by His authority and not their own. Being included in God's righteous purposes is presented as a high honor for all the saints. The closing 'Praise Yah!' frames even judgment within worship, and ultimately the saints' honor is fulfilled in reigning with Christ, who executes perfect judgment (1 Corinthians 6:2; Revelation 20:4).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- 1 Cor 6:2–3Do you not know that the saints will judge the world? And if you are to judge the world, are you not competent to judge trivial cases?
- Ps 148:14He has raised up a horn for His people, the praise of all His saints, of Israel, a people near to Him. Hallelujah!
- Ps 137:8O Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, blessed is he who repays you as you have done to us.
- Rev 17:14–16They will make war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will triumph over them, because He is Lord of lords and King of kings; and He will be accompanied by His called and chosen and faithful ones.”
- Deut 32:42–43I will make My arrows drunk with blood, while My sword devours flesh—the blood of the slain and captives, the heads of the enemy leaders.”
- Deut 7:1–2When the LORD your God brings you into the land that you are entering to possess, and He drives out before you many nations—the Hittites, Girgashites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites, and Jebusites, seven nations larger and stronger than you—
- Isa 14:22–23“I will rise up against them,” declares the LORD of Hosts. “I will cut off from Babylon her name and her remnant, her offspring and her posterity,” declares the LORD.
- Ezek 28:26And there they will dwell securely, build houses, and plant vineyards. They will dwell securely when I execute judgments against all those around them who treat them with contempt. Then they will know that I am the LORD their God.’”
- Rev 3:21To the one who overcomes, I will grant the right to sit with Me on My throne, just as I overcame and sat down with My Father on His throne.
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The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.
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