to execute the judgment written against them. This is the glorious privilege of his faithful ones. Praise the Lord!
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.
- BSB to execute the judgment written against them. This honor is for all His saints. Hallelujah!
- 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!
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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 6:2–3Don’t you know that the saints will judge the world? And if the world is judged by you, are you unworthy to judge the smallest matters?
- Ps 148:14He has lifted up the horn of his people, the praise of all his saints; even of the children of Israel, a people near to him. Praise Yah!
- Ps 137:8Daughter of Babylon, doomed to destruction, he will be happy who rewards you, as you have served us.
- Rev 17:14–16These will war against the Lamb, and the Lamb will overcome them, for he is Lord of lords, and King of kings, and those who are with him are called chosen and faithful.”
- Deut 32:42–43I will make my arrows drunk with blood. My sword shall devour flesh with the blood of the slain and the captives, from the head of the leaders of the enemy.”
- Deut 7:1–2When Yahweh your God brings you into the land where you go to possess it, and casts out many nations before you, the Hittite, the Girgashite, the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Perizzite, the Hivite, and the Jebusite, seven nations greater and mightier than you;
- Isa 14:22–23“I will rise up against them,” says Yahweh of Armies, “and cut off from Babylon name and remnant, and son and son’s son,” says Yahweh.
- Ezek 28:26They shall dwell securely therein; yes, they shall build houses, and plant vineyards, and shall dwell securely, when I have executed judgments on all those who do them despite all around them; and they shall know that I am Yahweh their God.
- Rev 3:21He who overcomes, I will give to him to sit down with me on my throne, as I also overcame, and sat down with my Father on his throne.
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