Psalms 149:7 Cross References - NSB

⁷ to take vengeance on the nations, to punish the people of the world,

² »Get even with the Midianites for what they did to the Israelites. After that you will join your ancestors in death.« ³ Moses said to the people: »Your men must get ready to go to war against the Midianites. Jehovah will use them to get even with Midian.

²³ »Curse Meroz, says Jehovah’s angel: Curse those who live there. They did not come to help Jehovah. They did not come as soldiers to fight for him.

² ‘The Israelites were on their way out of Egypt when the nation of Amalek attacked them. I am Jehovah All-Powerful. I am going to make Amalek pay for what he did to Israel! ³ »‘Go and attack the Amalekites! Destroy them and all their possessions. Do not have any pity. Kill their men, women, children, and even their babies. Slaughter their cattle, sheep, camels, and donkeys.’«

¹⁸ »Jehovah sent you on a mission. He said: Go and destroy those sinners, the Amalekites. Fight against them until every one is dead. ¹⁹ »Why then did you not obey the voice of Jehovah? Why did you pounce on the plunder? Why did you do evil in the sight of Jehovah?« ²⁰ Then Saul said to Samuel: »I did obey the voice of Jehovah. I went on the mission Jehovah sent me. I brought back Agag the king of Amalek. I have utterly destroyed the Amalekites. » ²¹ The people took from the plunder of the flock the best of the sheep and cattle to sacrifice to Jehovah your God in Gilgal. ²² Samuel said: »What is more pleasing to Jehovah, burnt offerings and sacrifices or your obedience to his voice? Obeying is better than sacrifice. To pay attention is better than the fat of rams. ²³ »The sin of divination is rebellion. Wickedness and idolatry are arrogance. They are evil. Because you rejected the word of Jehovah, he rejects you as king.«

⁸ You destructive people of Babylon, blessed is the one who pays you back with the same treatment you gave us. ⁹ Blessed is the one who grabs your little children and smashes them against a rock.

¹³ »I bend as my bow, Judah. I filled the bow with Ephraim! I will stir up your sons, O Zion, against your sons, O Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man. ¹⁴ »Jehovah will be seen over them. His arrow will go forth like lightning! The Sovereign Lord Jehovah will blow the trumpet and will go with windstorms of the south. ¹⁵ »Jehovah of Hosts will defend them! They will devour and trample on the sling stones. They will drink and be boisterous with the wine. They will be filled like the sacrificial basins by the corners of the altar. ¹⁶ »Jehovah their God will save them in that day like the flock of his people. They will be like the stones in a crown lifted high over his land.

¹⁷ »There will be no rain on those who do not go to Jerusalem to worship the King, Jehovah of Hosts. ¹⁸ »If the family of Egypt does not go it will not be upon them. There will be the plague and Jehovah will strike the nations that do not go to keep the Feast of Tabernacles. ¹⁹ »This will be the punishment of Egypt, and the punishment of all the nations that do not keep the Feast of Tabernacles.

¹¹ I saw heaven opened, and behold, a white horse; and he who sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he judges and makes war. ¹² His eyes were like a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns (diadems). He had a name written that no man knew, but himself. ¹³ He was clothed with a garment dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. ¹⁴ The armies in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. ¹⁵ Out of his mouth comes a sharp sword, that with it he should strike the nations. He will rule them with a rod of iron. He treads the winepress of the fierceness and anger of Almighty God. ¹⁶ He has on his garment and on his thigh a name written, »King of Kings« and »Lord of Lords«! ¹⁷ Then I saw an angel standing in the sun. He cried with a loud voice to all the fowls that fly in midheaven: »Come and gather yourselves together to the supper of the great God; ¹⁸ »that you may eat the flesh of kings, and the flesh of military commanders, and the flesh of mighty men, and the flesh of horses, and of those who sit on them, and the flesh of all men, both free and slave, both small and great.« ¹⁹ I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him who sat on the horse, and against his army. ²⁰ The beast was captured, and with him the false prophet that performed signs before him, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast, and those who worshiped his image. These both were cast alive into the lake of fire burning with sulfur. ²¹ The rest were killed with the sword that came from the mouth of the one who sat on the horse. All the birds were filled with their flesh.