
Prophecy 14 of 30 · Divine Son
Sit at my right hand
"The LORD says to my lord, sit at my right hand", and "you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek".
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Hebrew · Leningrad Codexעִבְרִית
1לְדָוִ֗ד מִ֫זְמ֥וֹר נְאֻ֤ם יְהוָ֨ה ׀ לַֽאדֹנִ֗י שֵׁ֥ב לִֽימִינִ֑י עַד־אָשִׁ֥ית אֹ֝יְבֶ֗יךָ הֲדֹ֣ם לְרַגְלֶֽיךָ׃ledavid mizmor ne'um ADONAI ladoni shev limini ad-ashit oyvekha hadom leraglekha
JPS 1917 · Jewish translation
1A Psalm of David. The LORD saith unto my lord: ‘Sit thou at My right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.'
World Messianic Bible
1The LORD says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
Psalms 110:1. Transliteration simplified. Read the whole chapter
Also in this passage: Psalms 110:4
4נִשְׁבַּ֤ע יְהוָ֨ה ׀ וְלֹ֥א יִנָּחֵ֗ם אַתָּֽה־כֹהֵ֥ן לְעוֹלָ֑ם עַל־דִּ֝בְרָתִ֗י מַלְכִּי־צֶֽדֶק׃
nishba' ADONAI velo yinnachem atta-khohen le'olam al-divrati malki-tzedek
4The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent: 'Thou art a priest for ever After the manner of Melchizedek.'
Psalms 110:4 (Hebrew & JPS 1917)
Fulfilment · New CovenantWMB
Matthew 22:41-46 Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Yeshua asked them a question, saying, “What do you think of the Messiah? Whose son is he?” They said to him, “Of David.” He said to them, “How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, sit on my right hand, until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet’? “If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?” No one was able to answer him a word, neither did any man dare ask him any more questions from that day forward.
Hebrews 5:5-6 So also Messiah didn’t glorify himself to be made a high priest, but it was he who said to him, “You are my Son. Today I have become your father.” As he says also in another place, “You are a priest forever, after the order of Melchizedek.”
Acts 2:34-36 For David didn’t ascend into the heavens, but he says himself, ‘The Lord said to my Lord, “Sit by my right hand until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet.”’ “Let all the house of Israel therefore know certainly that God has made him both Lord and Messiah, this Yeshua whom you crucified.”
How rabbinic tradition reads it
Some rabbis read it of Abraham (Talmud, Nedarim 32b) or of David.
Why Messianic Jews read it as Yeshua
Yeshua asked how David could call his own descendant "my lord". A king who is also a priest (not from Levi) points beyond David.
Look at the text for yourself
Read Psalms 110:1 slowly, in the Hebrew and the JPS translation above. Then ask the question the Ethiopian official asked: "Who is the prophet talking about?"
Sources
- Babylonian Talmud, Nedarim 32b
- Hebrew: Westminster Leningrad Codex (public domain), via OpenScriptures. English: JPS 1917; World Messianic Bible (public domain).