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110. Psalm 110

¹ The LORD says to my lord: Or Lord

   “Sit at my right hand
   until I make your enemies
   a footstool for your feet.”

    ² The LORD will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,
   “Rule in the midst of your enemies!”
³ Your troops will be willing
   on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,
   your young men will come to you
   like dew from the morning’s womb. The meaning of the Hebrew for this sentence is uncertain.

    ⁴ The LORD has sworn
   and will not change his mind:
“You are a priest forever,
   in the order of Melchizedek.”

    ⁵ The Lord is at your right hand Or My lord is at your right hand, LORD;
   he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
⁶ He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead
   and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.
⁷ He will drink from a brook along the way, The meaning of the Hebrew for this clause is uncertain.
   and so he will lift his head high.

5. The Lord at thy right hand In these words David celebrates the dreadful nature of that power which Christ possesses for the dispersion and destruction of his enemies; and by this means he affirms, that though encompassed by bands of deadly foes, yet their malignant attempts would not prevent God from upholding the King whom he has set up. It is proper to consider the expression, in the day of his wrath, by which we are instructed patiently to endure the cross, if it happen that God, for a time, conceals himself during the prevalence of the cruelty and fury of enemies; for he knows well when the full and fit season arrives for executing vengeance upon them. Next, he invests Christ with power over the nations, and the people of uncircumcised lips; meaning, that he was not chosen King to reign over the inhabitants of Judea only, but also to keep under his sway distant nations, agreeably to what was predicated of him in Psalm 2:8. And because, in all parts of the earth, as well as in the confines of Judea, there would be many rebellious and disobedient persons, he adverts also to their destruction; thus intimating, that all who should set themselves in opposition to Christ, must be made to fall before him, and their obstinacy be subdued.