What is the context?
The assembly is called to a new song, joy in its Maker and King, dancing, and instruments. The afflicted are adorned with salvation.
Joy reaches even to their beds. The scene celebrates received honor and rescue rather than a status the people create for themselves.
The following sword scene must also be heard, but it should not erase this account of divine pleasure and help for the lowly.
How is this passage commonly understood?
Wesley reads the adornment through honor and the beds through praise by night as well as day. His explanation should not become a rule that everyone must keep others awake to prove devotion.
What is our position?
We don't have a position on this passage yet. When our study reaches a conclusion the text supports, it will appear here.
Where can I study this further?
No deeper study linked yet.