Who is "he" in Psalm 110:7?

[tonychanyt]

Psalm 110 is Messianic:

1 The LORD says to my Lord:

YHWH says to the Messiah:

“Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.”

It begins with a cryptic language and ends with a cryptic image.

5 The Lord is at your right hand; he will shatter kings on the day of his wrath. 6 He will execute judgment among the nations, filling them with corpses; he will shatter chiefs over the wide earth.

After the above glorious description, the language changes suddenly:

7 He will drink from the brook by the way; therefore he will lift up his head.

The psalm is bookended by two cryptic verses.

Who will drink?

The Messiah. The psalmist describes the conquests of the Messiah. Along the way, he will pause to drink from the brook. God refreshes him. Then he looks up to heaven (Luke 9:16) to thank God

Who is the "lord" at the beginning of Psalm 110?

The Messiah.

Who is "he" at the end of Psalm 110?

The Messiah.

 

[Mark Quayle]

There are many prophetic Psalms and other places that to my thinking defy the hermeneutic principle that any passage has only one meaning —the old, "One meaning, many applications". Linguistically, if no other way, the application(s) often has/have much to do with the meaning, and the interpretation. I also balk at the notion that the poetry (etc) is always either prophetic or 'literal' (i.e. obvious, natural et al). I think scripture is full of puns and plays on words. I like the idea that when we see him as he is, this whole story will be an amazing "closed circuit" of fact and meaning and use.