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The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush kings in the day of His wrath.
Psalms 110:5 · Berean Standard Bible
Parallel translations
  • WEB The Lord is at your right hand. He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
  • KJV The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
  • NKJV The Lord is at Your right hand; He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.
  • NASB The Lord is at Your right hand; He will shatter kings in the day of His wrath.
  • NLT The Lord stands at your right hand to protect you. He will strike down many kings when his anger erupts.

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Quick answer

The Lord stands at the Messiah's right hand and will shatter kings on the day of His wrath. The reigning King will execute decisive judgment.

Overview

Having sat at God's right hand (v. 1), the Messiah now has the Lord at His right hand as ally in battle. The 'day of his wrath' points to the certain judgment the exalted King will bring upon all rebellious powers. This sober note balances grace with justice, fulfilled in Christ's final triumph over every hostile authority (Revelation 19:11-16).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 21

  • Rom 2:5But because of your hard and unrepentant heart, you are storing up wrath against yourself for the day of wrath, when God’s righteous judgment will be revealed.
  • Ps 16:8I have set the LORD always before me. Because He is at my right hand, I will not be shaken.
  • Rev 6:15–17Then the kings of the earth, the nobles, the commanders, the rich, the mighty, and every slave and free man hid in the caves and among the rocks of the mountains.
  • Rev 17:12–14The ten horns you saw are ten kings who have not yet received a kingdom, but will receive one hour of authority as kings, along with the beast.
  • Ps 68:14When the Almighty scattered the kings in the land, it was like the snow falling on Zalmon.
  • Rev 19:11–21Then I saw heaven standing open, and there before me was a white horse. And its rider is called Faithful and True. With righteousness He judges and wages war.
  • Acts 7:55–56But Stephen, full of the Holy Spirit, looked intently into heaven and saw the glory of God and Jesus standing at the right hand of God.
  • Acts 2:34–36For David did not ascend into heaven, but he himself says: ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit at My right hand
  • Mark 16:19After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, He was taken up into heaven and sat down at the right hand of God.
  • Rev 11:18The nations were enraged, and Your wrath has come. The time has come to judge the dead and to reward Your servants the prophets, as well as the saints and those who fear Your name, both small and great—and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
  • Ps 2:2–6The kings of the earth take their stand and the rulers gather together, against the LORD and against His Anointed One:
  • Ps 149:7–9to inflict vengeance on the nations and punishment on the peoples,
  • Ps 21:8–9Your hand will apprehend all Your enemies; Your right hand will seize those who hate You.
  • Rev 20:8–9and will go out to deceive the nations in the four corners of the earth—Gog and Magog—to assemble them for battle. Their number is like the sand of the seashore.
  • Zech 9:13–15For I will bend Judah as My bow and fit it with Ephraim. I will rouse your sons, O Zion, against the sons of Greece. I will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
  • Ezek 38:18–19Now on that day when Gog comes against the land of Israel, declares the Lord GOD, My wrath will flare up.
  • Ps 110:1A Psalm of David. The LORD said to my Lord: “Sit at My right hand until I make Your enemies a footstool for Your feet.”
  • Ps 2:9–12You will break them with an iron scepter; You will shatter them like pottery.”
  • Ps 68:30Rebuke the beast in the reeds, the herd of bulls among the calves of the nations, until it submits, bringing bars of silver. Scatter the nations who delight in war.
  • Zech 9:9–10Rejoice greatly, O Daughter of Zion! Shout in triumph, O Daughter of Jerusalem! See, your King comes to you, righteous and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • Ps 45:4–5In your splendor ride forth in victory on behalf of truth and humility and justice; may your right hand show your awesome deeds.

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Christ at the center

The Psalms are Christ's own prayer book and a gallery of his portraits — the suffering one of Psalm 22, the risen Lord of Psalm 16, the priest-king of Psalm 110, the Son to whom the nations are given.

How Psalms 110:5 points to him is part of the one story that runs through all Scripture — meet Jesus at the heart of the web, or follow a trail that traces him from Genesis to Revelation.

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