You have renounced the covenant of your servant. You have defiled his crown in the dust.
Parallel translations
- KJV Thou hast made void the covenant of thy servant: thou hast profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
- BSB You have renounced the covenant with Your servant and sullied his crown in the dust.
- NKJV You have renounced the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown by casting it to the ground.
- NASB You have repudiated the covenant of Your servant; You have profaned his crown in the dust.
- NLT You have renounced your covenant with him; you have thrown his crown in the dust.
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Quick answer
The psalmist grieves that God seems to have renounced His covenant and dishonored the king's crown.
Overview
From the human vantage point of national catastrophe, the covenant appears abandoned and the royal crown defiled in the dust. The lament voices the tension between promise and painful experience. Such suffering anticipates the Messiah who would be crowned with thorns before receiving His true crown (John 19:2; Heb. 2:9).
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Lam 5:16The crown is fallen from our head: Woe to us! for we have sinned.
- Ps 74:7They have burned your sanctuary to the ground. They have profaned the dwelling place of your Name.
- Ps 89:34–36I will not break my covenant, nor alter what my lips have uttered.
- Ps 116:11I said in my haste, “All men are liars.”
- Ps 143:3For the enemy pursues my soul. He has struck my life down to the ground. He has made me live in dark places, as those who have been long dead.
- Ps 77:10Then I thought, “I will appeal to this: the years of the right hand of the Most High.”
- Ps 89:44You have ended his splendor, and thrown his throne down to the ground.
- John 13:7Jesus answered him, “You don’t know what I am doing now, but you will understand later.”
- Isa 25:12He has brought the high fortress of your walls down, laid low, and brought to the ground, even to the dust.
- Isa 43:28Therefore I will profane the princes of the sanctuary; and I will make Jacob a curse, and Israel an insult.”
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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.
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