Translations
Modern
…how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
Traditional
Wherewith thine enemies have reproached, O Lord; wherewith they have reproached the footsteps of thine anointed.
Literal
…with which Your enemies have taunted, O YHWH, with which they have reproached the footsteps of Your anointed one.
Latin
…quod exprobraverunt inimici tui, Domine; quod exprobraverunt commutationem christi tui.
Original
Hebrew
English
…how Your enemies have taunted, O LORD, and have mocked every step of Your anointed one!
Notes
Book Three (Psalms 73–89) starts and ends with serious questions. Psalm 89 begins with praise for how the Lord established David’s throne and kingdom (89:1–37). But later the psalmist protests that the Lord seems to have rejected his covenant with David (Psalm 89:38–51; see 2 Samuel 7:8–16).
Theme notes and profiles
God’s Covenant with David Making Sense of the Exile Questions and Doubt Royal Psalms The Creator-King
Glossary
Topics
Afflictions and Adversities: Prayer In Prayer: Pleas offered In Reviling and Reproaching of Christ, Predicted