Exegetical and Hermeneutical Commentary of Psalms 149:4
For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
4. taketh pleasure in his people ] The deliverance which they have experienced is the proof of the renewal of His favour. Cp. Psa 147:11; Isa 54:7-8; Isa 60:10.
he adorneth the meek with salvation ] Through humiliation Israel has learnt humility; and now Jehovah restores their prosperity. Beautify or adorn is a word frequently used of the restoration of Israel in the later chapters of Isaiah (Isa 55:5; Isa 60:7; Isa 60:9; Isa 60:13, A.V. glorify or beautify). Salvation is not to be limited to victory (R.V. marg.), but denotes welfare and prosperity generally.
Fuente: The Cambridge Bible for Schools and Colleges
For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people – Let them rejoice on this account. He loves them; he approves their conduct; he bestows his favors upon them. All this should add to their joy, and fill their hearts with gladness. Compare the notes at Psa 35:27. The Hebrew word here rendered taketh pleasure conveys the idea of complacency, satisfaction, delight. It is the opposite of being pained or offended. God has complacency in his people. He delights in their welfare; he delights in doing them good.
He will beautify the meek with salvation – The word here rendered beautify means to adorn, to honor, as the sanctuary, Isa 60:7 (rendered glorify); and it here means that the salvation which God would bestow upon them would be of the nature of an ornament, as if they were clothed with costly or splendid raiment. Compare Psa 132:16. The word meek here means humble or lowly, and may refer to those who are humble in rank or condition, or those who are humble in heart. Perhaps the two ideas are here combined. They have not external adorning, but God will give them an honor and beauty in salvation which no outward adorning could impart.
Fuente: Albert Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
Psa 149:4
For the Lord taketh pleasure in His people.
The objects of the Divine delight
I. The people refereed to.
1. They bear the Lords name. They are His disciples, subjects, servants, soldiers.
2. They bear the Lords image (2Pe 1:4).
3. They possess the Lords Spirit. He directs, comforts, and sanctifies them.
4. They are zealous for the Lords glory.
II. The Lords delight in His people.
1. In their persons.
2. In their graces.
3. In their services.
4. In all their concerns.
5. At all times, and in all circumstances. (J. Burns, D. D.)
The Lords delight in His people, and His designs towards them
I. The delight which the Lord has in His saints.
1. Who are the Lords people? The meek.
(1) As it respects God, it implies poverty of spirit; humiliation of heart arising from a sense of guilt, and a feeling of corruption; submission and resignation to His will; silence and patience under His rod, and a surrender of our own natural desires and inclinations to His overruling appointments.
(2) As it respects man, it comprehends lowliness of mind, and a readiness to prefer others before ourselves; gentleness of disposition and behaviour; forbearance under provocations.
2. Why does He take pleasure in them? Because they are His people, purchased by His blood, renewed by His Spirit, redeemed by His power.
3. In what respects does He take pleasure in them?
(1) He delights in the exercise of their graces towards Him.
(2) In their services.
(3) In their prosperity.
II. His gracious designs concerning them.
1. The happy effects of religion even in the present life.
2. They are predestinated to be conformed to the image of the Son; and when they awake up in another world, it will be after His likeness, without any remaining blemish, defect, or spot. (E. Cooper.)
Gods pleasure in His people
I. The class of character described.
1. The title they bear. His people–
(1) By Divine choice,
(2) By regenerating grace.
(3) By personal dedication.
2. The spirit they evince. A humble, contrite spirit, softened by the power of Divine grace, and melted by the love and compassion of Christ.
II. The extent of privilege enjoyed
1. As the objects of Divine complacency.
2. As the subjects of the Divine munificence.
(1) The inestimable blessing–salvation. This consists in a deliverance from evil, and the enjoyment of all good–pardon, peace, joy, hope, heaven.
(2) The manner of its application. Beautify. How beautiful does the believer appear, arrayed in the garments of salvation, clothed with the robe of righteousness, and bringing forth the fruits of the Spirit–worshipping God in the beauty of holiness–going to the sanctuary to behold the beauty of the Lord. How beautiful, with the ornament of a meek and quiet spirit. How beautiful, laden with the fruits of righteousness, and resigned to the will of God under trials. How beautiful in death! (E. Temple.)
Gods delight in His people
I believe that every true sculptor can see in the block of marble the statue that he means to make. I doubt not that the artist could see the Laocoon of the Vatican after he had chipped for a little time the figure of the serpent, and the father, and the sons all standing out in that wondrous group, long before anybody else could see it. And the Lord takes pleasure in His people because He can see us as we shall be. It doth not yet appear what we shall be, but it does appear to Him. In the case of His mind and the shaping of His eternal purpose He knows, dear sister, though you are now struggling with your fears, what you will be when you shall stand before the blazing lamps of the eternal throne. He knows, young man, though you have but a few days turned from sin, and begun to struggle with vice, what you will be when, with all the blood-washed host, you shall cast your crown before His throne. Yes, the Lord takes delight in His people as knowing what they are yet to be. (C. H. Spurgeon.)
He will beautify the meek with salvation.—
Beautiful for ever
I. The character to be aimed at.
1. Towards God. Entire submission to
(1) His teaching.
(2) His chastening.
(3) All the influences of His Spirit.
2. Towards men–gentleness.
3. In themselves–lowliness.
II. The favour to be enjoyed by them.
1. Peace of mind.
2. Delightful contentment.
3. Great joy.
4. Holy character. As men and women, who are what they ought to be in Christ, grow old, their temper mellows, and their whole spirit ripens.
III. The good results to be expected.
1. God will be glorified.
2. By our meekness Christ is manifested.
3. This meekness makes a Christian attractive. If we want to draw others to Christ, we must let them see how sweetly blessed is the Christian life, and how a man can be sternly upright, and yet at the same time be blessedly cheerful,–how he can be dead against sin, and yet full of holy love to the sinner,–how he would not, to save his life, budge an inch from that which is right and true, and yet would give his life away if by blessing another he might bring glory to the Lord Jesus Christ. The Lord beautify us thus with salvation, and great good will come of it! (C. H. Spurgeon.)
The meek beautified with salvation
I. Their character. Meek–
1. Towards God.
(1) Under the Word of God–its threatenings, commands, truths and doctrine.
(2) Under the dispensations of His providence.
2. Towards man. The Christian knows that others have as much or more to bear with him than he has to bear with from others; this tends to humble him, and to keep him meek. He endeavours to show all meekness to all men; in meekness instructing them that oppose themselves.
II. Beautified with salvation.
1. The garment of salvation. It was wrought out by the Son of God, and, like Himself, is holy and without spot.
2. The graces of salvation (Gal 5:22-23).
3. The glory of salvation. How beautiful will he be with the palm of victory in his hand, and the crown of glory on his head, and sitting down, with the wedding-garment wrought by the Son of God Himself, at the marriage-supper of the Lamb! (W. Bolland, M. A.)
Beauty
To be religious is just to be like Jesus, and salvation, in the text, means religion; the meek there spoken of are persons who are gentle, and sweet, and kind. Now, there is something beautiful about the gentle, and sweet, and kind, although they may not be religious. How much greater, then, must be the beauty of such persons when they have, with their good qualities, religion also, with all its heavenly sweetness! Religion is not equally beautiful in all who profess to have it; a disagreeable temper may mar that beauty. The chief beauty of religion is found in the gentle, and sweet, and kind. And this beauty is seen in the face of religious people and also in all their kind acts. Bad tempers and unkind dispositions make the faces of people ugly, while sweet tempers and kind dispositions make them pretty. It is very hard to beautify some people even with religion. Some are sweet in temper and some are sour. It is a difficult thing for an artist, out of a piece of wood that is tough, and crooked, and knotted, to carve a beautiful image. And so it is not an easy task, out of some one in disposition very much like that piece of wood, to make a religious person beautiful in face and in action. But this can be done. Now, if the heathen man in old times, without any one helping him, learned to be gentle and sweet and kind, there is no one, surely, no matter how bad the disposition may be, who cannot, with God helping, learn the same lesson. I am sure that you all want to be beautiful. How can you become so? Some people think that any one can be made beautiful by wearing rich clothes and nice ornaments; but this is not what the Bible teaches us. It says (1Pe 3:3-4). Every child can have such adorning by getting and keeping a sweet religious disposition, and by doing kindly religious acts. We have seen such beauty as this. At first, may be, we thought that some one had not a bit of beauty, but we found in that one a lovely soul and saw a lovely life; and then the plain face changed at once, and, in our sight, it became, like the soul and life, lovely too. (W. L. Spottswood.)
Transfigured
One of the most beautiful sights in the world is the Bay of Naples. No one who has ever seen it on a quiet summer evening, and watched it as the night gathered and through the darkness the flashes of fire from the summit of Vesuvius, like some torch of God, lighted it, can ever forget the scene. But scientific men tell us that that lovely Bay of Naples is the crater of a worn-out and flooded volcano. In the early morning of the worlds history it was perhaps the greatest volcano on earth; it belched forth from its heart floods of seething lava. At last it sank down and down, its fiery heart was quelled, the lava ceased to flow, and in from the Mediterranean, perhaps first in some glorious day of storm, swept the white caps of the sea and overflowed the crater and filled it full, and to-day the beautiful waters lie in peace and mirror back the shining heavens above. So many of our lives are like the crater. Passions have swept over us and left us worn out. But Gods grace can fill our empty lives and make them sweet and beautiful and peaceful. (Sunday Circle.)
Fuente: Biblical Illustrator Edited by Joseph S. Exell
Verse 4. The Lord taketh pleasure in his people] The pleasure or good will of God is in his people: he loves them ardently, and will load them with his benefits, while they are humble and thankful; for,
He will beautify] yephaer, he will make fair, the meek, anavim, the lowly, the humble with salvation, bishuah; which St. Jerome thus translates, Et exaltabit mansuetos in Jesu, “And he will exalt the meek in Jesus.” Whether this rendering be correct or not, there is no other way by which the humble soul can be exalted, but by JESUS, as the redeeming Saviour.
Fuente: Adam Clarke’s Commentary and Critical Notes on the Bible
Taketh pleasure in his people; he loveth them above all people, and rejoiceth over them to do them good.
He will beautify, Heb. adorn or glorify; make them amiable and honourable in the eyes of the world, who now hate and despise them.
The meek, or humble, to wit, his people, as he now said, who are oft in Scripture described by that character, because all true Israelites are such, and all Israelites profess and ought to be such. Or, the afflicted, as that word is oft used in Scripture, which hath been observed before; his poor afflicted and oppressed people, to whom the following salvation is most needful and acceptable.
With salvation; both temporal, in delivering them from, and setting them above, all their enemies; and afterwards, with everlasting salvation and glory.
Fuente: English Annotations on the Holy Bible by Matthew Poole
4. taketh pleasureliterally,”accepts,” alluding to acceptance of propitiatory offerings(compare Ps 147:11).
beautify, &c.adornthe humble with faith, hope, joy, and peace.
Fuente: Jamieson, Fausset and Brown’s Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people,…. Not all mankind; though they are all his people by creation, and are under the care of his providence; yet they are not all acceptable to him; some are abhorred by him for their sins and transgressions: but these are a special and peculiar people, whom he has foreknown and chosen, taken into the covenant of his grace, and provided in it blessings for them; whom he has given to Christ, and he has redeemed; and who are called by the Spirit and grace of God, whereby they appear to be his people. These the Lord loves with a love of complacency and delight; he takes pleasure in their persons, as considered in Christ, in whom they are accepted with him; as they are clothed with his righteousness, and made comely through his comeliness; as washed in his precious blood, and adorned with the graces of his spirit: yea, he takes pleasure in their services done in faith, and from love, and to his glory; in their sacrifices of prayer and praise, as offered up through Christ; in the company of them and communion with them; and in their prosperity and happinesS, here and hereafter;
he will beautify the meek with salvation; humble and lowly souls, who have been truly humbled under a sense of sin; brought to submit to the righteousness of Christ, and to depend upon the grace of God for salvation; are subject to the yoke of Christ, and patiently submit to the will of God under every dispensation of Providence; are not easily provoked to wrath; are free from envy and malice; have mean thoughts of themselves, and high ones of other saints; these the Lord beautifies now with more grace, with which salvation is connected; with the robe of Christ’s righteousness, and the garments of his salvation, which are beautiful ones; and he will beautify them with eternal salvation, with the white robes of immortality and bliss, when they will shine as the sun in the kingdom of heaven.
Fuente: John Gill’s Exposition of the Entire Bible
4. For God hath taken pleasure in his people. We have spoken elsewhere of the verb רצה, ratsah here it means free favor, the Psalmist saying that it was entirely of his good pleasure that God had chosen this people to himself. From this source flows what is added in the second clause, that God would give a new glory of deliverance to the afflicted. In the Hebrew ענוים, anavim, means poor and afflicted ones, but the term came afterwards to be applied to merciful persons, as bodily afflictions have a tendency to subdue pride, while abundance begets cruelty. The Psalmist accordingly mitigates the sadness of present evils by administering seasonable consolation, that God’s people, when oppressed by troubles, might look forward with hope to the glorious deliverance which was yet unseen. The sum of the passage is — that God, who had fixed his love upon his chosen people, could not possibly abandon them to such miseries as they now suffered under.
Fuente: Calvin’s Complete Commentary
(4) He will beautify the meek . . .Rather, He adorns the oppressed with salvation. Not only is the victory which achieves the deliverance of the afflicted people a relief to them, but the honour won in the sight of the world is like a beautiful robe, a figure no doubt suggested by the actual triumphal dresses of the victors, or the spoils in which they appeared after the battle. (Comp. Isa. 55:5; Isa. 60:7; Isa. 61:3; Jdg. 5:30.)
Fuente: Ellicott’s Commentary for English Readers (Old and New Testaments)
4. Beautify the meek with salvation This is a law of the divine government. The meek, not the proud and contentious, shall triumph at last, even in this life. Mat 5:5. These are they who wait in patient suffering for God’s time and manner of judgment. “Beautify,” here, takes the sense of honour. God will honour the meek in the eyes of the world. The struggling colony had humbly borne the malice and perfidy of hostile tribes for nearly a hundred years from their first arrival, (Ezra 1,) and about one hundred and sixty six years from the beginning of their captivity, but now they are honoured in the sight of the nations by the favour of the king of Persia, and the completion of their new temple and city walls. “Salvation” is here to be taken in its broadest sense, embracing temporal and spiritual deliverance. The author speaks of the true Israel.
Fuente: Whedon’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
Psa 149:4. He will beautify the meek i.e. “Will deliver those who meekly depend upon him, and will make them as great and illustrious, as they had been contemptible and mean.” See 1Ch 14:2. Mudge renders it, He decorateth the humble with victory.
Fuente: Commentary on the Holy Bible by Thomas Coke
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THE DUTY OF PRAISING GOD FOR HIS GOODNESS
Psa 149:4-6. The Lord taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation. Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their beds. Let the high praises of God be in their mouth, and a two-edged sword in their hand.
THE world are ready to account those weak and enthusiastic who abound in the exercise of spiritual duties: but there is nothing in the universe that more accords with the dictates of reason, than such a state. If God have not given us sufficient grounds to love and serve him, then we may doubt whether the supreme affection of our souls be due to him. But we need go no further than the text in order to justify the warmest expressions of our love to him, and the most unreserved dedication of all our powers to his service.
The exhortations in the text are full of energy; but they are founded on Gods love to us. In order therefore to be duly sensible of their force, we must consider,
I.
Gods kindness to us
This is expressed both by the internal regard which he bears towards us, and by the outward manifestations of it to our souls.
1.
He loves his people
[They who fear God are considered as his people, in contradistinction to those who belong to Satan. He esteems them as his peculiar treasure [Note: Exo 19:5.]. He has pleasure in their persons, notwithstanding all their vileness; for he views them as complete in Christ [Note: Col 2:10.]. When they are mourning and weeping for their extreme sinfulness, he looks on them with heart-felt complacency [Note: Isa 66:2. Jer 31:18; Jer 31:20.], and delight [Note: Pro 11:20.]. Even when they are doubting his love towards them, he marks them as the objects of his tenderest affection and incessant care [Note: Isa 49:14-16.].
He takes pleasure also in their services. Their prayers are his delight [Note: Pro 15:8.]: their tributes of praise are esteemed his glory [Note: Psa 50:23.]; their alms, a sacrifice with which he is well pleased [Note: Heb 13:16.]: their every grace is in his sight of great price [Note: 1Pe 3:4.]. Their holy purposes, though not suffered by him to be carried into effect, are noticed by him with approbation [Note: 1Ki 8:18-19.], nor are even their fainter inclinations [Note: 1Ki 14:13.], or their transient thoughts [Note: Mal 3:16.], suffered to pass without a suitable reward.]
2.
He makes them lovely
[The distinguishing characteristic of the Lords people is, that they are meek: their hearts being humbled, their proud impetuous passions are hushed to silence. These the Lord beautifies with salvation now. The lion becomes a lamb [Note: Isa 11:6.]: instead of the brier and thorn, the fir and myrtle-tree spring up [Note: Isa 55:13.]: and even blood-thirsty murderers become humble and loving saints [Note: Act 2:23; Act 2:41-47.]. The very countenances of Gods people often bear a visible mark of the change wrought in them; so that we may almost literally say, They have the mark of the Lamb in their foreheads [Note: Rev 22:4.]. There is a beautiful symmetry discernible in all their conduct. The beauty of the Lord their God is upon them [Note: Psa 90:17.]: and as that consists, not in the exercise of any one perfection, but in an union and harmony of all, however opposite to human appearance; so their beauty is seen, not in the exercise merely of meekness or fortitude, of fear or confidence, but in the just temperament, and combination, of every Christian grace. In a word, they are renewed after Gods image [Note: Eph 4:24.]; and have the change carried on from one degree of glory to another by the Spirit of the Lord [Note: 2Co 3:18.].
But in an infinitely higher degree will they be beautified when their salvation shall be complete. Then they shall have no remains of sin or corruption: their bodies shall be made like unto Christs glorious body [Note: Php 3:21.]: their souls also shall be without spot or blemish as truly as his [Note: Eph 5:27.]: arrayed in the robes of his perfect righteousness, and adorned with a crown of glory [Note: Rev 6:11; Rev 7:14. 2Ti 4:8.], they shall shine forth above the sun in the firmament for ever and ever [Note: Dan 12:3. Mat 13:43.]. And when Christ himself shall come in his glory, he will be admired in them, and glorified in them [Note: 2Th 1:10.].]
After viewing the obligations we owe to God, we cannot but be prepared to hear,
II.
Our duty to him
There is a correspondence between the mercies we receive from God, and the service which he requires at our hands: Does he take pleasure in us? we should delight ourselves in him: Does he exert himself to beautify us? we should labour to glorify him.
1.
We should delight ourselves in God
[They whom God has set apart for himself as his people, and rendered meek after the example of Jesus, are properly called his saints: and though men scoff at that name, and make it a term of reproach, they whom God has honoured with it, have reason to rejoice and glory in such an honourable appellation. With them, praise should be the subject of their thoughts, the language of their lips, the very element in which they breathe [Note: Psa 33:1.]. It is their privilege as well as their duty to rejoice in the Lord, to rejoice in him evermore [Note: Php 4:4.], to rejoice in him with joy unspeakable and full of glory [Note: 1Pe 1:8.]. When they rise in the morning, their praise should ascend up as incense; yea, when they are lying upon their beds, they should have their waking thoughts occupied with God, and sing aloud for joy. Nor should they be contented with the solitary expressions of their love to God: they should commend him to others, and stir up all around them to magnify his name. Such was the delightful employment of the Psalmist [Note: Psa 63:3-6; Psa 96:1-4.]; and such a devotedness of soul to God is no other than our reasonable service [Note: Rom 12:1.].]
2.
We should fight the Lords battles
[The Jews were to approve their love to God by extirpating his enemies among the heathen. There are enemies also with whom he requires us to contend: but the weapons of our warfare are not carnal: it is not our fellow-creatures that we are called to destroy, but the lusts that war in our members. The world, the flesh, and the devil, are our enemies, and Gods. Against them we vowed eternal enmity in our baptism; nor are we ever to sheathe the sword till they are all put under our feet. God has prepared for us a divine panoply, an armour of heavenly temper [Note: Eph 6:13-17.]. Clad with this, we must go forth continually conquering, and to conquer. We must fight a good fight, and war a good warfare [Note: 1Ti 1:18; 1Ti 6:12.], and endure hardness as good soldiers of Jesus Christ [Note: 2Ti 2:3.].
Thus fighting and singing must be joined together; for the joy of the Lord is our strength [Note: Neh 8:10.]: and then shall we be most victorious, when we go forth to battle singing the praises of our God [Note: 2Ch 20:21-23.].]
Address,
1.
Those who rest satisfied with a mere formal religion
[What suitableness is there in such a state to the mercies we receive at Gods hands? If he take pleasure in us, should we be indifferent towards him? If he labour to beautify us, should we take no pains to glorify him? If he call us to holy joy, should we be cold or lukewarm? If he command us to maintain a continual warfare, should we yield ourselves willing captives to our enemies, or make a truce with them for a moment? Be it known, that whatever the world may think of such a state, God utterly abhors it [Note: Rev 3:16.].]
2.
Those who profess to serve and enjoy God
[Glorious indeed is the vocation wherewith ye are called: and well may you rejoice in it: but oh! be careful also to walk worthy of it [Note: Eph 4:1.]. If you profess that God has pleasure in you, take care that you are also adorned and beautified with his divine image. If you rejoice and glory in God, take care also that the sword is ever in your hand, to cut off whatever is displeasing in his sight [Note: Mat 18:7-9.]. Beware also lest you decline from the happy state to which you have been brought: beware lest, by cowardice or sloth, you rob your soul of its beauty and happiness, and make him your enemy, who desires nothing so much as to shew himself your friend [Note: Isa 63:10.].]
Fuente: Charles Simeon’s Horae Homileticae (Old and New Testaments)
Sweet thought! may we not, while reading it, take up Solomon’s humble inquiry, But will God indeed dwell on earth? 1Ki 8:27 .
Fuente: Hawker’s Poor Man’s Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
Psa 149:4 For the LORD taketh pleasure in his people: he will beautify the meek with salvation.
Ver. 4. For the Lord taketh pleasure in his people ] Psa 35:27 , when they are under the cross especially, and thereby make meek. This the very heathen saw, and could say, Spectant Dii magnos viros, cum calamitate aliqua colluctantes. Ecce spectaculum, ad quod respiciat operi suo intentus Deus, saith Seneca of Cato, and other gallant Roman spirits (Lib. de Provid. c. 2). How much more may we say the like of God’s looking with singular delight on Abraham (Jehovah-jireh, “the Lord seeth,” Gen 22:14 , Job, Stephen, Laurence, and other faithful martyrs, suffering courageously for his truth, and sealing it with their blood!
He will beautify (or glorify) the meek with salvation] i.e. Not only deliver them, but dignify them in the eyes of all; Psa 91:15 , I will deliver him, and glorify him. Bradford and such we shall look upon, likely (saith a grave author, Mr Bolton), with thoughts of extraordinary love and sweetness in the next world through all eternity; as Bonner and such with execrable and everlasting detestation.
Fuente: John Trapp’s Complete Commentary (Old and New Testaments)
taketh pleasure. Compare Isa 54:7, Isa 54:8.
Fuente: Companion Bible Notes, Appendices and Graphics
taketh pleasure: Psa 22:8, Psa 35:27, Psa 117:2, Psa 147:11, Pro 11:20, Isa 62:4, Isa 62:5, Jer 32:41, Zep 3:17
beautify: Psa 90:17, Psa 132:16, Isa 61:1-3, Isa 61:10, Heb 12:10, 1Pe 3:4, 1Pe 5:5, Rev 7:14
Reciprocal: Exo 28:2 – glory Num 12:3 – very 2Sa 22:20 – delighted Job 40:10 – glory Psa 25:9 – meek Psa 68:13 – the wings Psa 76:9 – to save Psa 147:6 – lifteth up Son 1:5 – comely Son 1:11 – General Isa 5:7 – his pleasant plant Isa 29:19 – meek Isa 53:10 – the pleasure Dan 3:10 – the cornet Zep 2:3 – all Mat 5:5 – the meek 1Ti 2:9 – not Heb 10:38 – my Jam 3:13 – with meekness
Fuente: The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Psa 149:4. The Lord taketh pleasure in his people He loveth them above all people, and rejoiceth over them to do them good. He will beautify the meek The humble, and lowly, and contrite in heart, that tremble at his word, and submit to it; that are patient under their afflictions, and show all meekness toward all men. These the men of the world vilify and asperse; but God will justify them, and wipe off their reproach; nay, he will beautify, or adorn, or glorify them, as signifies. They shall appear, not only clear, but comely and honourable before all the world, with the comeliness and dignity wherewith he clothes them. He will beautify them with salvation, perhaps with temporal salvation, working remarkable deliverances for them; and then they who had lain among the pots, become as the wings of a dove covered with silver, Psa 68:13 : but especially with eternal salvation. The righteous shall be beautified indeed in that day when they shine forth as the sun in the kingdom of their Father.
Fuente: Joseph Bensons Commentary on the Old and New Testaments
2. A reason to rejoice in the Lord 149:4-5
The reason for rejoicing and praising is God’s care for His people, seen in His providing salvation for them. No specific deliverance is in view here. It is salvation in any and every form and occasion that the psalmist wanted to emphasize. Salvation is a theme for exaltation under any circumstance, even when one reclines on his or her bed.