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He will drink of the brook on the way; therefore he will lift up his head.
Psalms 110:7 · World English Bible
Parallel translations
  • KJV He shall drink of the brook in the way: therefore shall he lift up the head.
  • BSB He will drink from the brook by the road; therefore He will lift up His head.
  • NKJV He shall drink of the brook by the wayside; Therefore He shall lift up the head.
  • NASB He will drink from the brook by the wayside; Therefore He will lift up His head.
  • NLT But he himself will be refreshed from brooks along the way. He will be victorious.

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Quick answer

The victorious King drinks from a brook along the way and lifts up His head in triumph. He presses on to total victory without exhaustion.

Overview

This closing image likely portrays the conquering King pausing only briefly to refresh Himself before lifting His head in renewed strength and triumph. It pictures relentless, victorious pursuit of His enemies. Some see here a hint of the Messiah's path through lowliness to exaltation, fulfilled in Christ who was humbled and then lifted up (Philippians 2:8-9).

Cross-references & the web

Cross-references · 15

  • Ps 27:6Now my head will be lifted up above my enemies around me; I will offer sacrifices of joy in his tent. I will sing, yes, I will sing praises to Yahweh.
  • Heb 2:9–10But we see him who has been made a little lower than the angels, Jesus, because of the suffering of death crowned with glory and honor, that by the grace of God he should taste of death for everyone.
  • Judg 7:5–6So he brought down the people to the water; and Yahweh said to Gideon, “Everyone who laps of the water with his tongue, like a dog laps, you shall set him by himself; likewise everyone who bows down on his knees to drink.”
  • Matt 26:42Again, a second time he went away, and prayed, saying, “My Father, if this cup can’t pass away from me unless I drink it, your desire be done.”
  • 1 Pet 1:11searching for who or what kind of time the Spirit of Christ, which was in them, pointed to, when he predicted the sufferings of Christ, and the glories that would follow them.
  • Phil 2:7–11but emptied himself, taking the form of a servant, being made in the likeness of men.
  • John 18:11Jesus therefore said to Peter, “Put the sword into its sheath. The cup which the Father has given me, shall I not surely drink it?”
  • Jer 52:31In the thirty-seventh year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the twenty-fifth day of the month, Evilmerodach king of Babylon, in the first year of his reign, lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and released him from prison;
  • Luke 24:26Didn’t the Christ have to suffer these things and to enter into his glory?”
  • Jer 23:15Therefore Yahweh of Armies says concerning the prophets: “Behold, I will feed them with wormwood, and make them drink the water of gall; for from the prophets of Jerusalem ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”
  • Matt 20:22But Jesus answered, “You don’t know what you are asking. Are you able to drink the cup that I am about to drink, and be baptized with the baptism that I am baptized with?” They said to him, “We are able.”
  • Ps 3:3But you, Yahweh, are a shield around me, my glory, and the one who lifts up my head.
  • Isa 53:11–12After the suffering of his soul, he will see the light and be satisfied. My righteous servant will justify many by the knowledge of himself; and he will bear their iniquities.
  • Job 21:20Let his own eyes see his destruction. Let him drink of the wrath of the Almighty.
  • Ps 102:9For I have eaten ashes like bread, and mixed my drink with tears,

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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 110:7 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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