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Psalm 149:5

Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.

3Let them praise his name in the dance! Let them sing praises to him with tambourine and harp!
4For the LORD takes pleasure in his people. He crowns the humble with salvation.
5Let the saints rejoice in honor. Let them sing for joy on their beds.
6May the high praises of God be in their mouths, and a two-edged sword in their hand,
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Notice

Beds become a place of song here, extending the saints’ rejoicing in honor into a setting often marked by silence and rest.

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Where else Scripture says this

8 passages readers most often link with this verse, and the thread each one shares with it.

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Psalm 63:6when I remember you on my bed, and think about you in the night watches.Both passages make the bed a place for attention to God, through joyful song in one and remembrance in the other.
Psalm 42:8The LORD will command his loving kindness in the daytime. In the night his song shall be with me: a prayer to the God of my life.Both passages speak of song in relation to God, with one naming the bed and the other naming the night.
Job 35:10But no one says, ‘Where is God my Maker, who gives songs in the night,Both passages associate song with God, though Job names him as the giver of nighttime songs and the psalm urges singing.
1 Peter 1:8whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,Both passages describe rejoicing marked by honor or glory; Peter speaks of the joy of believing in Christ without seeing him.
Psalm 118:15The voice of rejoicing and salvation is in the tents of the righteous. “The right hand of the LORD does valiantly.Both passages place the joy of God’s people where they live: on beds in one and in tents in the other.
Psalm 145:10All your works will give thanks to you, LORD. Your saints will extol you.Both passages name God’s saints as those who praise him, through joyful singing here and words of praise in Psalm 145.
Romans 5:2through whom we also have our access by faith into this grace in which we stand. We rejoice in hope of the glory of God.Both passages connect rejoicing with honor or glory; Romans locates that joy in hope of the glory of God.
Isaiah 11:10It will happen in that day that the nations will seek the root of Jesse, who stands as a banner of the peoples; and his resting place will be glorious.The link is limited: the psalm mentions honor and beds, while Isaiah describes the root of Jesse’s glorious resting place.
Where this verse fits

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One step

Something small to carry out of this verse

Sing a short song of praise in bed

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Encouragement

The joy described here reaches as far as your bed. The preceding verse gives its ground: YHWH takes pleasure in his people and crowns the humble with salvation.

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Cross-reference data from OpenBible.info (CC BY). Scripture from the World English Bible (public domain). Arc diagram after Chris Harrison and Christoph Römhild (2007).