Psalms 149:2

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Let Israel rejoice in their Creator! Let the people of Zion delight in their King!

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

יִשְׂמַ֣ח יִשְׂרָאֵ֣ל בְּעֹשָׂ֑יו בְּנֵֽי־צִ֝יּ֗וֹן יָגִ֥ילוּ בְמַלְכָּֽם׃

Transliteration

yiśmaḥ yiśrāʾēl in-ʿōśāyw bənê-ṣiyyôn yāgîlû in-malkām

Grammar Details

• *yiśmaḥ*: imperfect, 3rd masculine singular, qal - he will rejoice/let him rejoice
• *yiśrāʾēl*: proper noun - Israel
• *ʿōśāyw*: participle, masculine plural construct + 3rd masculine singular suffix with preposition bet - in his makers
• *bənê*: noun, masculine plural construct - sons of/children of
• *ṣiyyôn*: proper noun - Zion
• *yāgîlû*: imperfect, 3rd masculine plural, qal - they will rejoice/let them rejoice
• *malkām*: noun, masculine singular + 3rd masculine plural suffix with preposition bet - in their king

Word Meanings

• *yiśmaḥ*: rejoice/be glad/delight
• *ʿōśāyw*: his makers/his creator/the one who made him
• *bənê*: sons/children/descendants
• *yāgîlû*: rejoice/be joyful/exult
• *malkām*: their king/their monarch/their ruler

Referenced Verses

• Zech 9:9 : 9 Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Look! Your king is coming to you: he is legitimate and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey– on a young donkey, the foal of a female donkey.
• Job 35:10 : 10 But no one says,‘Where is God, my Creator, who gives songs in the night,
• Ps 95:6 : 6 Come! Let’s bow down and worship! Let’s kneel before the LORD, our Creator!
• Ps 100:1-3 : 1 A thanksgiving psalm. Shout out praises to the LORD, all the earth! 2 Worship the LORD with joy! Enter his presence with joyful singing! 3 Acknowledge that the LORD is God! He made us and we belong to him; we are his people, the sheep of his pasture.
• Ps 135:3-4 : 3 Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good! Sing praises to his name, for it is pleasant! 4 Indeed, the LORD has chosen Jacob for himself, Israel to be his special possession.
• Isa 52:7 : 7 How delightful it is to see approaching over the mountains the feet of a messenger who announces peace, a messenger who brings good news, who announces deliverance, who says to Zion,“Your God reigns!”
• Isa 54:5 : 5 For your husband is the one who made you– the LORD of Heaven’s Armies is his name. He is your protector, the Holy One of Israel. He is called“God of the entire earth.”
• Isa 62:11-12 : 11 Look, the LORD announces to the entire earth:“Say to Daughter Zion,‘Look, your deliverer comes! Look, his reward is with him and his reward goes before him!’” 12 They will be called,“The Holy People, the Ones Protected by the LORD.” You will be called,“Sought After, City Not Abandoned.”
• Joel 2:23 : 23 Citizens of Zion, rejoice! Be glad because of what the LORD your God has done! For he has given to you the early rains as vindication. He has sent to you the rains– both the early and the late rains as formerly.
• Ps 47:6 : 6 Sing to God! Sing! Sing to our king! Sing!
• Deut 7:6-7 : 6 For you are a people holy to the LORD your God. He has chosen you to be his people, prized above all others on the face of the earth. 7 The Basis of Israel’s Election It is not because you were more numerous than all the other peoples that the LORD favored and chose you– for in fact you were the least numerous of all peoples.
• Deut 12:7 : 7 Both you and your families must feast there before the LORD your God and rejoice in all the output of your labor with which he has blessed you.
• 1 Sam 12:22 : 22 The LORD will not abandon his people because he wants to uphold his great reputation. The LORD was pleased to make you his own people.
• Matt 21:5 : 5 “Tell the people of Zion,‘Look, your king is coming to you, unassuming and seated on a donkey, and on a colt, the foal of a donkey.’”
• Matt 25:34 : 34 Then the king will say to those on his right,‘Come, you who are blessed by my Father, inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world.
• Luke 19:27 : 27 But as for these enemies of mine who did not want me to be their king, bring them here and slaughter them in front of me!’”
• Luke 19:38 : 38 “Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven and glory in the highest!”
• John 19:15 : 15 Then they shouted out,“Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!” Pilate asked,“Shall I crucify your king?” The high priests replied,“We have no king except Caesar!”
• John 19:19-22 : 19 Pilate also had a notice written and fastened to the cross, which read:“Jesus the Nazarene, the king of the Jews.” 20 Thus many of the Jewish residents of Jerusalem read this notice, because the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city, and the notice was written in Aramaic, Latin, and Greek. 21 Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate,“Do not write,‘The king of the Jews,’ but rather,‘This man said, I am king of the Jews.’” 22 Pilate answered,“What I have written, I have written.”
• Phil 3:3 : 3 For we are the circumcision, the ones who worship by the Spirit of God, exult in Christ Jesus, and do not rely on human credentials
• Rev 19:6 : 6 The Wedding Celebration of the Lamb Then I heard what sounded like the voice of a vast throng, like the roar of many waters and like loud crashes of thunder. They were shouting:“Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the All-Powerful, reigns!