This is also a song which helps us to look forward with confidence to what Jesus will do in this world, even in our own day. In verse 43, it’s really stretching the phrase ‘head of nations’ – plural – if we apply it to David. Even at the height of his power he was just the head of one […]

Perhaps someone will say: ‘Well if this song is really about Jesus then, does it have any relevance to me?’ Yes! More so, in fact, than if these were just the words of David. Because by faith we’re joined on to Jesus. So what’s true of him in this song becomes true of us. One example is verses 17-19. In […]

Some read verses 21-25 and say: Well this must be David writing before he had Uriah killed and stolen his wife. Others would say – rightly – that it’s not necessarily a claim to sinless perfection, but it’s just a claim not to be guilty of what he’s being accused of. And yet is this language that any of us […]