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The Lord stands at your right hand to protect you. He will strike down many kings when his anger erupts.
Psalms 110:5 · New Living Translation
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.
  • BSB The Lord is at Your right hand; He will crush 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.

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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 according to your hardness and unrepentant heart you are treasuring up for yourself wrath in the day of wrath, revelation, and of the righteous judgment of God;
  • Ps 16:8I have set Yahweh always before me. Because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved.
  • Rev 6:15–17The kings of the earth, the princes, the commanding officers, the rich, the strong, and every slave and free person, hid themselves in the caves and in the rocks of the mountains.
  • Rev 17:12–14The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have received no kingdom as yet, but they receive authority as kings, with the beast, for one hour.
  • Ps 68:14When the Almighty scattered kings in her, it snowed on Zalmon.
  • Rev 19:11–21I saw the heaven opened, and behold, a white horse, and he who sat on it is called Faithful and True. In righteousness he judges and makes war.
  • Acts 7:55–56But he, being full of the Holy Spirit, looked up steadfastly into heaven, and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing on the right hand of God,
  • Acts 2:34–36For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand,
  • Mark 16:19So then the Lord, after he had spoken to them, was received up into heaven, and sat down at the right hand of God.
  • Rev 11:18The nations were angry, and your wrath came, as did the time for the dead to be judged, and to give your bondservants the prophets, their reward, as well as to the saints, and those who fear your name, to the small and the great; and to destroy those who destroy the earth.”
  • Ps 2:2–6The kings of the earth take a stand, and the rulers take counsel together, against Yahweh, and against his Anointed, saying,
  • Ps 149:7–9To execute vengeance on the nations, and punishments on the peoples;
  • Ps 21:8–9Your hand will find out all of your enemies. Your right hand will find out those who hate you.
  • Rev 20:8–9and he will come out to deceive the nations which are in the four corners of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to the war; the number of whom is as the sand of the sea.
  • Zech 9:13–15For indeed I bend Judah as a bow for me. I have filled the bow with Ephraim; and I will stir up your sons, Zion, against your sons, Greece, and will make you like the sword of a mighty man.
  • Ezek 38:18–19It shall happen in that day, when Gog shall come against the land of Israel, says the Lord Yahweh, that my wrath shall come up into my nostrils.
  • Ps 110:1A Psalm by David. Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
  • Ps 2:9–12You shall break them with a rod of iron. You shall dash them in pieces like a potter’s vessel.”
  • Ps 68:30Rebuke the wild animal of the reeds, the multitude of the bulls, with the calves of the peoples. Being humbled, may it bring bars of silver. Scatter the nations that delight in war.
  • Zech 9:9–10Rejoice greatly, daughter of Zion! Shout, daughter of Jerusalem! Behold, your King comes to you! He is righteous, and having salvation; lowly, and riding on a donkey, even on a colt, the foal of a donkey.
  • Ps 45:4–5In your majesty ride on victoriously on behalf of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand display 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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