Psalms 149:5

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

Ver. 5. Let the saints be joyful in glory] i.e. In their glorious estate by Christ, notwithstanding their present poverty. "Let the brother of low degree rejoice (or glory) in that he is exalted," James 1:9 .

Let them sing aloud upon their beds] How hard soever; as Philpot and his fellow sufferers did. when they roused in the straw. Jacob had never more sweet intercourse with God than when his head lay upon the hard stone, at Bethel. Some by "beds" here understand the temples and schools. Confer Isa 57:1-2 Others render it, Ovabunt de cubilibus suis, They shall sing aloud for their beds, that is, for their sweet and solid tranquillity.