Psalm 110:1-6

1 Ein Psalm Davids. Der HERR sprach zu meinem Herrn: "Setze dich zu meiner Rechten, bis ich deine Feinde zum Schemel deiner Füße lege."

2 Der HERR wird das Zepter deines Reiches senden aus Zion: "Herrsche unter deinen Feinden!"

3 Nach deinem Sieg wird dir dein Volk willig opfern in heiligem Schmuck. Deine Kinder werden dir geboren wie der Tau aus der Morgenröte.

4 Der HERR hat geschworen, und es wird ihn nicht gereuen: "Du ist ein Priester ewiglich nach der Weise Melchisedeks."

5 Der HERR zu deiner Rechten wird zerschmettern die Könige am Tage seines Zorns;

6 er wird richten unter den Heiden; er wird ein großes Schlagen unter ihnen tun; er wird zerschmettern das Haupt über große Lande.

Psalm 110:1-6 Meaning and Commentary

INTRODUCTION TO PSALM 110

\\<>\\. This psalm was written by David, as the title shows, and which is confirmed by our Lord Jesus Christ, Mt 22:43 and by the Apostle Peter, Ac 2:34 and was not written by anyone of the singers concerning him, as Aben Ezra and Kimchi; nor by Melchizedek, nor by Eliezer the servant of Abraham, concerning him, as Jarchi and others: for the former could not call Abraham his lord, since he was greater than he, Heb 7:7 and though the latter might, yet he could not assign his master a place at the right hand of God; nor say he was a priest after the order of Melchizedek: and as it was written by David, it could not be concerning himself, as the Targum, but some other; not of Hezekiah, to whom some of the Jews applied it, as Tertullian {m} affirms; but of the Messiah, as is clear from the quotation by Christ, Mt 22:43,44 and from the references to it by the apostle, \Ac 2:34 1Co 15:25 Heb 1:13\. And that this was the general sense of the ancient Jewish church is manifest from the silence of the Pharisees, when a passage out of it was objected to them by our Lord concerning the Messiah; and is the sense that some of the ancient Jews give of it; says R. Joden {n}, ``God will make the King Messiah sit at his right hand, &c:'' and the same is said by others {o}; and it is likewise owned by some of the more modern {p} ones; and we Christians can have no doubt about it. The psalm is only applicable to Christ, and cannot be accommodated to any other; no, not to David as a type, as some psalms concerning him may.