John Trapp on Psalms 149:5

Verſ. 5 Let the Saints bee joyfull in glory] i. e. In their glorious eſtate by Chriſt, notwithſtanding their preſent poverty. Let the Brother of low degree rejoyce (or glo[illegible: 1 letter]y) in that hee is exalted, Jam. 1.9.

Let them ſing aloud upon their beds] How hard ſoever: Act & Mo[illegible: 2 letters] 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. Others render it, [illegible: 1 word] de cubilibus ſuis, They ſhall ſing aloud for their beds, that is, for their ſweet and ſolid tranquillity.