Holy Scripture
Psalms 149:8
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“To bind their kings in fetters. Do you wish the peoples to be set free? bind the teachers. To bind the kings. He did not call them teachers, but kings: for they reign by the miseries of those people. To bind their kings in fetters. He put it well, in fetters: lest the teachers should run about too much, lest they dece…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
8To bind their kings with fetters, And their nobles with manacles of iron;
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6The high praises of God shall be in their throat, And two-edged swords in their hands;
7To execute vengeance on the nations, And punishments among the peoples;
— Psalms 149:8 —
9To execute on them the judgment written: This honor have all his saints.