But thou hast cast off and abhorred, thou hast been wroth with thine anointed.
The verse voices the psalmist's anguish that God has rejected and detested him and is angry with His anointed king. It marks a sudden turn from triumph to deepest mourning, declaring that God has cast off and abhorred and is wroth with His anointed, has made void His covenant, has profaned the crown by casting it to the ground, has set up the right hand of adversaries, has made glory to cease and has cast the throne down to the ground. The lament over the rejected anointed belongs to the sorrows and afflictions of the Hebrew captives during the Babylonian captivity, likely in its latter part under Belshazzar when persecution and distress were severe, and stands among psalms that also offer exhortation, encouragement, assurance of divine help, and hope of final deliverance from persecutors.
It describes the literal overthrow of David's personal throne and kingdom because Solomon departed from God and succeeding generations did ill, fulfilled when Zedekiah fell captive to the king of Babylon, after which David's seed has possessed no throne for thousands of years. It gives a conditional promise of a kingdom to Jacob's descendants, which they forfeited under the old covenant. It confirms God's covenant with David that God will not break His sworn promise and that David's seed and throne will endure forever, showing that the promise to Abraham includes a kingdom and that the throne promised to David belongs ultimately to Christ. It shows that God's covenant stands fast with Christ, which proves that God's commandments remain in force rather than being abolished.
The psalm is prophetic of David and David's greater Son, Jesus Christ. It is part of the biblical promise to David that Christ would reign as King on the throne of the coming kingdom of God, understood as the fifth universal kingdom on earth. Because history confirms this casting down, the promises in the same psalm of seed established forever and throne built up to all generations cannot pertain to David's earthly line but pertain only to Christ, far greater than David and Solomon, come from David centuries later as His glorious antitype, and to His blessed seed. It belongs to David's prophetic song of deliverance, which is connected with the triumph of Jesus' resurrection. It is connected with the idea that God's wrath can shorten a person's years; the length of life is in God's hands, while a life's true measure is whether it reaches its purpose and is filled with worthy deeds.
The verse voices the psalmist's anguish that God has rejected and detested him and is angry with His anointed king. It marks a sudden turn from triumph to deepest mourning, declaring that God has cast off and abhorred and is wroth with His anointed, has made void His covenant, has profaned the crown by casting it to the ground, has set up the right hand of adversaries, has made glory to cease and has cast the throne down to the ground. The lament over the rejected anointed belongs to the sorrows and afflictions of the Hebrew captives during the Babylonian captivity, likely in its latter part under Belshazzar when persecution and distress were severe, and stands among psalms that also offer exhortation, encouragement, assurance of divine help, and hope of final deliverance from persecutors.
It describes the literal overthrow of David's personal throne and kingdom because Solomon departed from God and succeeding generations did ill, fulfilled when Zedekiah fell captive to the king of Babylon, after which David's seed has possessed no throne for thousands of years. It gives a conditional promise of a kingdom to Jacob's descendants, which they forfeited under the old covenant. It confirms God's covenant with David that God will not break His sworn promise and that David's seed and throne will endure forever, showing that the promise to Abraham includes a kingdom and that the throne promised to David belongs ultimately to Christ. It shows that God's covenant stands fast with Christ, which proves that God's commandments remain in force rather than being abolished.
The psalm is prophetic of David and David's greater Son, Jesus Christ. It is part of the biblical promise to David that Christ would reign as King on the throne of the coming kingdom of God, understood as the fifth universal kingdom on earth. Because history confirms this casting down, the promises in the same psalm of seed established forever and throne built up to all generations cannot pertain to David's earthly line but pertain only to Christ, far greater than David and Solomon, come from David centuries later as His glorious antitype, and to His blessed seed. It belongs to David's prophetic song of deliverance, which is connected with the triumph of Jesus' resurrection. It is connected with the idea that God's wrath can shorten a person's years; the length of life is in God's hands, while a life's true measure is whether it reaches its purpose and is filled with worthy deeds.