Psalm 110:1-4

“The LORD says to my Lord: ‘Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.’” (Psalm 110:1)

Psalm 110 is quoted or alluded to in the New Testament more often than any other passage of the Hebrew scriptures, chiefly its first verse, which Jesus puts to the scribes at Mark 12:36 and which Peter applies to the ascension at Acts 2:34-35. That opening line is an oracle addressed to the king, and the two words rendered Lord are different in Hebrew, the divine name and a term of human respect, a distinction the argument in Mark depends on. Verse 3 is among the most damaged texts in the Psalter, and the ancient versions diverge widely in rendering it. Verse 4 adds a second oracle, sworn on oath, a priesthood after the manner of Melchizedek, the priest-king of Salem who appears once at Genesis 14:18 and nowhere else in the law, a silence the Letter to the Hebrews develops at length (5:6 and 7:1-17).

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