Let the saints be joyful in glory: let them sing aloud upon their {d} beds.

(d) He alludes to that continual rest and quietness which they should have if they would suffer God to rule them.

Wesley's Notes

149:5 In glory - For the honour which God putteth upon them. Beds - By night as well as by day.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. in glory-the honorable condition to which they are raised.

upon their beds-once a place of mourning (Ps 6:6).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

149:1-5 New mercies continually demand new songs of praise, upon earth and in heaven. And the children of Zion have not only to bless the God who made them, but to rejoice in him, as having created them in Christ Jesus unto good works, and formed them saints as well as men. The Lord takes pleasure in his people; they should rejoice in Him. When the Lord has made sinners feel their wants and unworthiness, he will adorn them with the graces of his Spirit, and cause them to bear his image, and rejoice in his happiness for ever. Let his saints employ their waking hours upon their beds in songs of praise. Let them rejoice, even upon the bed of death, assured that they are going to eternal rest and glory.