Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries; thou hast made all his enemies to rejoice.
Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries means God gives the advantage to the one addressed to his enemy, strengthening the adversaries and causing all his enemies to rejoice in their apparent victory. It portrays the sorrows and afflictions of the Hebrew captives during the Babylonian captivity, when persecution and distress were severe. It shows God casting off David's earthly throne because of unfaithfulness, making his personal glory to cease and casting his throne down to the ground. This was fulfilled in history when Zedekiah fell captive to the king of Babylon, after which David's seed has possessed no throne and kingdom for thousands of years.
The psalm states a conditional promise of a kingdom to Jacob's descendants under the old covenant, which they forfeited through disobedience. It shows that God's covenant stands fast with Christ, which means the ten commandments are not abolished. The David of the psalm is David II, Christ, the son of David who is to reign on David's throne, called God's firstborn, whose kingdom endures forever.
Because the overthrow of David's earthly line is historical fact, the promises of a seed established forever and a throne as the days of heaven cannot pertain to that earthly line but pertain only to Christ, the One far greater than David and Solomon, and to His blessed seed. The forfeited kingdom can be regained only through an interest in Jesus, who is now prince and will soon be crowned King. The psalm is a prophecy of Christ and His glorious reign, appealed to concerning the reign of Christ, the inheritance of the saints, and the return of the Jews to argue that God has a special future work among literal Jews in the Christian dispensation. It belongs to the Bible's treasure of comfort and consolation, offering encouragement and assurance of divine help and final deliverance to God's children.
Thou hast set up the right hand of his adversaries means God gives the advantage to the one addressed to his enemy, strengthening the adversaries and causing all his enemies to rejoice in their apparent victory. It portrays the sorrows and afflictions of the Hebrew captives during the Babylonian captivity, when persecution and distress were severe. It shows God casting off David's earthly throne because of unfaithfulness, making his personal glory to cease and casting his throne down to the ground. This was fulfilled in history when Zedekiah fell captive to the king of Babylon, after which David's seed has possessed no throne and kingdom for thousands of years.
The psalm states a conditional promise of a kingdom to Jacob's descendants under the old covenant, which they forfeited through disobedience. It shows that God's covenant stands fast with Christ, which means the ten commandments are not abolished. The David of the psalm is David II, Christ, the son of David who is to reign on David's throne, called God's firstborn, whose kingdom endures forever.
Because the overthrow of David's earthly line is historical fact, the promises of a seed established forever and a throne as the days of heaven cannot pertain to that earthly line but pertain only to Christ, the One far greater than David and Solomon, and to His blessed seed. The forfeited kingdom can be regained only through an interest in Jesus, who is now prince and will soon be crowned King. The psalm is a prophecy of Christ and His glorious reign, appealed to concerning the reign of Christ, the inheritance of the saints, and the return of the Jews to argue that God has a special future work among literal Jews in the Christian dispensation. It belongs to the Bible's treasure of comfort and consolation, offering encouragement and assurance of divine help and final deliverance to God's children.