Psalms 149:2

World English Bible (2000)

Let Israel rejoice in him who made them. Let the children of Zion be joyful 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! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
• Job 35:10 : 10 But none says, 'Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,
• Ps 95:6 : 6 Oh come, let's worship and bow down. Let's kneel before Yahweh, our Maker,
• Ps 100:1-3 : 1 Shout for joy to Yahweh, all you lands! 2 Serve Yahweh with gladness. Come before his presence with singing. 3 Know that Yahweh, he is God. It is he who has made us, and we are his. We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
• Ps 135:3-4 : 3 Praise Yah, for Yahweh is good. Sing praises to his name, for that is pleasant. 4 For Yah has chosen Jacob for himself; Israel for his own possession.
• Isa 52:7 : 7 How beautiful on the mountains are the feet of him who brings good news, who publishes peace, who brings good news of good, who publishes salvation, who says to Zion, "Your God reigns!"
• Isa 54:5 : 5 For your Maker is your husband; Yahweh of Armies is his name: and the Holy One of Israel is your Redeemer; the God of the whole earth shall he be called.
• Isa 62:11-12 : 11 Behold, Yahweh has proclaimed to the end of the earth, "Say to the daughter of Zion, 'Behold, your salvation comes. Behold, his reward is with him, and his recompense before him.'" 12 They shall call them The holy people, The redeemed of Yahweh: and you shall be called Sought out, A city not forsaken.
• Joel 2:23 : 23 "Be glad then, you children of Zion, and rejoice in Yahweh, your God; for he gives you the former rain in just measure, and he causes the rain to come down for you, the former rain and the latter rain, as before.
• Ps 47:6 : 6 Sing praise to God, sing praises. Sing praises to our King, sing praises.
• Deut 7:6-7 : 6 For you are a holy people to Yahweh your God: Yahweh your God has chosen you to be a people for his own possession, above all peoples who are on the face of the earth. 7 Yahweh didn't set his love on you, nor choose you, because you were more in number than any people; for you were the fewest of all peoples:
• Deut 12:7 : 7 and there you shall eat before Yahweh your God, and you shall rejoice in all that you put your hand to, you and your households, in which Yahweh your God has blessed you.
• 1 Sam 12:22 : 22 For Yahweh will not forsake his people for his great name's sake, because it has pleased Yahweh to make you a people to himself.
• Matt 21:5 : 5 "Tell the daughter of Zion, behold, your King comes to you, humble, and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey."
• Matt 25:34 : 34 Then the King will tell those on his right hand, 'Come, blessed of my Father, inherit the Kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world;
• Luke 19:27 : 27 But bring those enemies of mine who didn't want me to reign over them here, and kill them before me.'"
• Luke 19:38 : 38 saying, "Blessed is the King who comes in the name of the Lord! Peace in heaven, and glory in the highest!"
• John 19:15 : 15 They cried out, "Away with him! Away with him! Crucify him!" Pilate said to them, "Shall I crucify your King?" The chief priests answered, "We have no king but Caesar!"
• John 19:19-22 : 19 Pilate wrote a title also, and put it on the cross. There was written, "JESUS OF NAZARETH, THE KING OF THE JEWS." 20 Therefore many of the Jews read this title, for the place where Jesus was crucified was near the city; and it was written in Hebrew, in Latin, and in Greek. 21 The chief priests of the Jews therefore said to Pilate, "Don't write, 'The King of the Jews,' but, 'he 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, who worship God in the Spirit, and rejoice in Christ Jesus, and have no confidence in the flesh;
• Rev 19:6 : 6 I heard something like the voice of a great multitude, and like the voice of many waters, and like the voice of mighty thunders, saying, "Hallelujah! For the Lord our God, the Almighty, reigns!