1Salmo de Davi: O SENHOR disse a meu Senhor: Senta-te à minha direita, até que eu ponha teus inimigos por escabelo de teus pés.
2O SENHOR enviará o cetro de tua força desde Sião, [dizendo] : Domina tu no meio de teus inimigos.
3Teu povo será voluntário no dia do teu poder; com santas honras, desde o ventre do amanhecer, tu [terás] o orvalho de tua juventude.
4O SENHOR jurou, e não se arrependerá: Tu és Sacerdote eterno, segundo a ordem de Melquisedeque.
5O Senhor está à tua direita; ele ferirá aos reis no dia de sua ira.
6Julgará entre as nações; ele [as] encherá de corpos mortos; [e] ferirá a cabeça de uma grande terra.
7Ele beberá do ribeiro no caminho, então levantará a cabeça.
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Summary
A short but extremely influential royal and prophetic psalm: God invites the psalmist's 'Lord' to sit at his right hand until all his enemies are subdued, and declares him an eternal priest according to the order of Melchizedek.
Explanation
This is the psalm most quoted in the New Testament, applied repeatedly to Jesus as the Messiah who sits at God's right hand (for example, Matthew 22:44, Acts 2:34-35, Hebrews 1:13). The reference to 'Melchizedek' points back to Genesis 14, a mysterious figure who was both king and priest at the same time, something unusual in Israel, where kingship (the tribe of Judah) and priesthood (the tribe of Levi) were always kept separate. The application today is that this psalm became foundational for understanding, theologically, who the promised Messiah of Scripture is.
Fun facts
- It is the psalm most quoted in the New Testament, appearing directly or indirectly more than twenty times, almost always referring to Jesus.
- Melchizedek, mentioned only in Genesis 14, Psalm 110, and the book of Hebrews, is one of the most enigmatic figures in the Bible for combining the roles of king and priest, something forbidden to the kings of Israel.