Yet another translation;
6Your arrows are sharp;
peoples will cower at your feet;
the king’s enemies will lose heart.
7Your throne, O God, stands forever
your royal scepter is a scepter for justice.
8You love justice and hate wrongdoing;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you
with the oil of gladness above your fellow kings.
Commentary;
The court poet sings of God’s choice of the king of his role in establishing divine rule, and of his splendor as he waits for his bride. The woman is to forget her own house when she becomes wife to the king Her majestic beauty today is a sign of the future prosperity of the royal house. The Psalm was retained in the collection when there was no reigning king, and came to be applied to the king who was to come, the messiah.
6Your arrows are sharp;
peoples will cower at your feet;
the king’s enemies will lose heart.
7Your throne, O God, stands forever
your royal scepter is a scepter for justice.
8You love justice and hate wrongdoing;
therefore God, your God, has anointed you
with the oil of gladness above your fellow kings.
Commentary;
The court poet sings of God’s choice of the king of his role in establishing divine rule, and of his splendor as he waits for his bride. The woman is to forget her own house when she becomes wife to the king Her majestic beauty today is a sign of the future prosperity of the royal house. The Psalm was retained in the collection when there was no reigning king, and came to be applied to the king who was to come, the messiah.