Psalm 89:51
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EXPLANATORY NOTES AND QUAINT SAYINGS
Verse 51. They have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed. This phrase is obscure in diction, and therefore variously interpreted
Verse 51. (second clause). The Chaldee has: "They have scoffed at the tardiness of Thy Messiah's footsteps." So Kimchi: "He delays so long, they say He will never come." Compare 2 Peter 3:4 2 Peter 3:9 . The Arabic aqaba is used in the sense of "delaying." --William Kay.
Verse 51. The footsteps, or foot soles, that is, the ways, life, actions, and sufferings, Psalms 56:6 Psalms 49:5 . This referred to Christ, respecteth the oracle, Genesis 3:15 , that the Serpent should bruise the foot sole of the woman's seed; referred to Christians which follow his footsteps, in suffering and dying with him, that we may be glorified with him ( 1 Peter 2:21 Romans 8:17 ); it notes the scandal of the Cross of Christ, "to the Jews a stumbling block, and to the Greeks foolishness." ( 1 Corinthians 1:23 1 Peter 4:13-14 .) The Chaldee understands it of the slackness of the footsteps. --Henry Ainsworth.