This psalm presents a figure addressed by the LORD with enthronement, rule, priesthood, and victory all concentrated in a few lines. The chapter moves from the invitation to sit at God's right hand, to the promise of willing people and an everlasting priesthood after the order of Melchizedek, and then to the final picture of judgment and triumph, so that the whole psalm reads like a royal oracle in which God himself establishes and sustains his chosen ruler.
Psalm 110 stands near the center of the Psalter's royal hope. It fits Book V by showing that the future of God's people depends not merely on national recovery or military success, but on a ruler whom the LORD appoints, enthrones, and binds to a lasting priestly office, making this one of the clearest convergence points for kingship, holiness, and divine victory.
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A1 Psalm of David. 2The LORD extends Your mighty scepter from Zion: 3Your people shall be willing
4The LORD has sworn
5The Lord is at Your right hand; 6He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead; 7He will drink from the brook by the road;
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