“That they may execute upon them the judgment that is written. What is the judgment that is written? That those who at first had denied God may afterward return through repentance. The judgment that is written: that they may loose their captives, that those whom they had bound, those whom they had led bound out of the…”
Jerome, 5th c. — Homily 59, on Psalm 149
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9To execute upon them the judgment written: this honour have all his saints. Praise ye the LORD.
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7To execute vengeance upon the heathen, and punishments upon the people;
8To bind their kings with chains, and their nobles with fetters of iron;