God’s Word Translation
Psalms 110:5
5The Lord is at your right side. He will crush kings on the day of his anger.
Psalms 110:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The Lord at thy right hand shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath.
- New International Version (NIV)The Lord is at your right hand; he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The Lord is at Your right hand; He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath.
Context of Psalms 110:5
3Your people will volunteer when you call up your army. Your young people will come to you in holy splendor like dew in the early morning. 4The Lord has taken an oath and will not change his mind: “You are a priest forever, in the way Melchizedek was a priest.” The Lord is at your right side. He will crush kings on the day of his anger. 6He will pass judgment on the nations and fill them with dead bodies. Throughout the earth he will crush ⌞their⌟ heads. 7He will drink from the brook along the road. He will hold his head high.
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אֲדֹנָ֥י עַל־יְמִֽינְךָ֑ מָחַ֖ץ בְּיוֹם־אַפּ֣וֹ מְלָכִֽים׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Psalms 110:5
- Psalms 109:1O God, whom I praise, do not turn a deaf ear to me.
- Psalms 16:8I always keep the Lord in front of me. When he is by my side, I cannot be moved.
- Mark 16:19After talking with the apostles, the Lord was taken to heaven, where he received the honored position—the one next to God the Father on the throne.
- Acts 2:34David didn’t go up to heaven, but he said, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Take the honored position—the one next to me [God the Father] on the heavenly throne—
- Acts 7:55But Stephen was full of the Holy Spirit. He looked into heaven, saw God’s glory, and Jesus in the honored position—the one next to God the Father on the heavenly throne.
- Psalms 2:2Kings take their stands. Rulers make plans together against the Lord and against his Messiah by saying,
- Psalms 45:4Ride on victoriously in your majesty for the cause of truth, humility, and righteousness. Let your right hand teach you awe-inspiring things.
- Psalms 68:14Meanwhile, the Almighty was still scattering kings there like snow falling on Mount Zalmon.”
- Psalms 149:7to take vengeance on the nations, to punish the people of the world,
- Zechariah 9:9Rejoice with all your heart, people of Zion! Shout in triumph, people of Jerusalem! Look! Your King is coming to you: He is righteous and victorious. He is humble and rides on a donkey, on a colt, a young pack animal.
- Revelation 17:12“The ten horns that you saw are ten kings who have not yet started to rule. They will receive authority to rule as kings with the beast for one hour.
- Revelation 19:11I saw heaven standing open. There was a white horse, and its rider is named Faithful and True. With integrity he judges and wages war.
- Revelation 20:8He will go out to deceive Gog and Magog, the nations in the four corners of the earth, and gather them for war. They will be as numerous as the grains of sand on the seashore.
- Psalms 21:8Your hand will discover all your enemies. Your powerful hand will find all who hate you.
- Ezekiel 38:18On the day that Gog attacks the land of Israel, I will be filled with burning anger, declares the Almighty Lord.
- Romans 2:5Since you are stubborn and don’t want to change the way you think and act, you are adding to the anger that God will have against you on that day when God vents his anger. At that time God will reveal that his decisions are fair.
Commentaries on Psalms 110:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5The Lord at thy right hand - Here Venema thinks the Psalm speaks of David. As Jesus is at the right hand of God, so he will be at thy hand, giving thee all the support and comfort requisite. Shall strike through kings - As he did in the case of Abraham, Genesis 14:1-16, (for to this there seems to be an allusion), where he smote four kings, and filled the pits with the dead bodies of their troops. That the allusion is to the above transaction seems the…Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5The Lord at thy right hand - See the notes at Psalm 16:8. Shall strike through kings - The Hebrew word here rendered “shall strike,” - from מחץ mâchats - means “to shake, to agitate”; and then, “to shake in pieces, to dash in pieces, to crush”; and here it has the sense of dashing in pieces, smiting, wounding, crushing. The “kings” referred to are the enemies of God and the Messiah, and the idea is that all would be subdued before him; that he would set…Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 5-6at Your right hand: This position brings help and protection (see Psalms 16:7–8; 108:13). The Lord will strike down rebellious kings. Rebellion against the Lord leads to death (Psalm 2; Romans 6:23).Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. at thy right hand--as Psa 109:31, upholding and aiding, which is not inconsistent with Psa 110:1, where the figure denotes participation of power, for here He is presented in another aspect, as a warrior going against enemies, and sustained by God. strike through--smite or crush. kings--not common men, but their rulers, and so all under them (Psa 2:2, 10).Read the comment
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Commentaries on Psalms 110
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Calvin’s Commentaries
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- The Treasury of David
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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