Psalms 110 KJV
The Lord Says to My Lord
About This Psalm
The most quoted psalm in the NT. The LORD said to my Lord - a messianic prophecy of Christ as priest-king.
1he LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.
2 The LORD shall send the rod of thy strength out of Zion: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies.
3 Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
4 The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
5 The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
6 He shall judge among the heathen, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies; he shall wound the heads over many countries.
7 He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
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Did You Know?
Psalm 110 uniquely fuses Davidic kingship with an eternal Melchizedekian priesthood, a combination absent from other royal psalms and later invoked in Hebrews to argue that Jesus transcends Levitical limitations.
The opening oracle reverses ancient Near Eastern protocol by seating the Davidic king at YHWH's right hand, a position normally reserved for the deity's vizier or warrior god, thereby elevating the human ruler to co-regent status.
Verse 3's enigmatic phrase 'the dew of thy youth' echoes Ugaritic and Egyptian motifs of divine generation through morning dew, suggesting the king's perpetual vitality originates from heavenly rather than earthly succession.
The psalm's closing image of the king drinking from a brook 'in the way' alludes to a post-battle purification rite attested in Canaanite texts, transforming a local Jerusalem custom into a foreshadowing of messianic triumph.
Despite traditional Davidic attribution, the psalm's silence on Zion theology and its focus on an international priest-king points to composition during the united monarchy's engagement with Jebusite royal ideology in pre-Israelite Jerusalem.