a people (as a congregated unit) · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
willing
נְדָבֹת֮ne.da.Vot
H5071
properly (abstractly) spontaneity · noun, common feminine plural absolute
day
בְּי֪וֹםbe.Yom
H3117
a day (as the warm hours) · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
power
חֵ֫ילֶ֥ךָchei.Le.kha
H2428
probably a force · noun, common masculine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
beauties
בְּֽהַדְרֵיbe.had.rei-
H1926
magnificence · preposition + noun, common masculine plural construct
holiness
קֹ֭דֶשׁKo.desh
H6944
a sacred place or thing · noun, common masculine singular absolute
womb
מֵרֶ֣חֶםme.Re.chem
H7358
the womb · preposition + noun, common masculine singular construct
morning
מִשְׁחָ֑רmish.Char
H4891
dawn · noun, common masculine singular absolute
dew
טַ֣לtal
H2919
dew (as covering vegetation) · noun, common masculine singular construct
youth
יַלְדֻתֶֽיךָyal.du.Tei.kha
H3208
boyhood (or girlhood) · noun, common feminine singular construct + pronominal suffix, 2nd person masculine singular
Strong's Exhaustive Concordance (James Strong, 1890/1894), public domain; digitized by Open Scriptures (CC BY-SA). KJV word tagging: eBible.org (public domain). Original-language text, parsing and brief lexicon: STEPBible.org data from Tyndale House, Cambridge (CC BY 4.0).
Cross-references
Judges 5:2 Praise ye the LORD for the avenging of Israel, when the people willingly offered themselves.
Hebrews 13:21 Make you perfect in every good work to do his will, working in you that which is wellpleasing in his sight, through Jesus Christ; to whom be…
Titus 2:14 Who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify unto himself a peculiar people, zealous of good works.
1 Thessalonians 4:7 For God hath not called us unto uncleanness, but unto holiness.
Ephesians 1:4 According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love:
Revelation 7:9 After this I beheld, and, lo, a great multitude, which no man could number, of all nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues, stood bef…
Psalms 96:9 O worship the LORD in the beauty of holiness: fear before him, all the earth.
Acts 2:33 Therefore being by the right hand of God exalted, and having received of the Father the promise of the Holy Ghost, he hath shed forth this,…
Cross-references from OpenBible.info (CC BY), in the lineage of the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge (public domain).
Commentary
Matthew Henry on Psalms 110:1-4
Some have called this psalm David's creed, almost all the articles of the Christian faith being found in it; the title calls it David's psalm, for in the believing foresight of the Messiah he both praised God and solaced himself, much more may we, in singing it, to whom that is fulfilled, and therefore more clearly revealed, which is here foretold. Glorious things are here spoken of Christ, and such as oblige us to consider how great he is.
I. That he is David's Lord. We must take special notice of this because he himself does. Mat 22:43, David, in spirit, calls him Lord. And as the apostle proves the dignity of Melchizedek, and in him of Christ, by this, that so great a man as Abraham was p…
Thy people shall be willing in the day of that power..... Or, in the day of thine army (s). When thou musterest thy forces, sendest forth thy generals, the apostles and ministers of the word, in the first times of the Gospel; when Christ went forth working with them, and their ministry was attended with signs, and miracles, and gifts of the Holy Ghost; and which was a day of great power indeed, when wonderful things were wrought; the god of this world was cast out, the Heathen oracles ceased, their idols were abolished, and their temples desolate; and Christianity prevailed everywhere. Or this may respect the whole Gospel dispensation, the day of salvation, which now is and will be as long a…
Psalm 110:1-3
1. Jehovah said to my Lord, Sit at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool. 2. Jehovah shall send out of Zion the scepter of thy power: rule thou in the midst of thine enemies. 3. Thy people shall come with voluntary offerings, at the time of the assembling of thine army, [318] in beauty of holiness: [319] from the womb as from the morning dawn to thee has been the dew of thy youth.
1 Jehovah said to my Lord [320] What is here stated might to some extent be applied to the person of David, inasmuch as he neither ascended the royal throne illegally, nor did he find his way to it by nefarious artifices, nor was he raised to it by the fickle suffrages of the peopl…
The Church Fathers
We read that the Son is begotten, inasmuch as the Father says, "I brought you forth from the womb before the morning star." We read of the "firstborn" Son, of the "only-begotten"54—firstborn, because there is none before him; only-begotten, because there is none after him. Again, we read, "Who shall declare his generation?" "Generation," mark you, not "creation." What argument can be brought to meet testimonies so great and mighty as these?
Farther down again in the same psalm he saith with reference to his deity: Out of the womb before morning have I begotten thee, as if the Father were saying to the Son, with reference to his deity, Thee before all creation have I brought forth from the womb (thus showing him to be consubstantial) and not afterwards, but having thee in myself without beginning and without limit, as if from the womb, from my own substance have I begotten thee, being with me and co-existing with me.
He is named Christ from being as man anointed with the Holy Spirit, and called our high priest, apostle, prophet and king. Long ago the divine Moses exclaimed, "The Lord your God will raise up to you a prophet, from the midst of you, of your brethren, like to me." And the divine David cries, "The Lord has sworn and will not repent, you are a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek." This prophecy is confirmed by the divine apostle. And again "seeing then that we have a great high priest who has passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold firmly to the faith we profess."
The Church Fathers: public-domain translations (Ante-Nicene and Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers), verse-indexed by SermonIndex (CC BY 4.0).
Dictionary and topics
Dew — “There is no dew properly so called in Palestine, for there is no moisture in the hot summer air to be chilled into dew-drops by the coldness of the night. From May till October rain is unknown, the…
Beauty · SPIRITUAL — SPIRITUAL
Call Of God, The · Effectual to saints — Effectual to saints
Day · A time of mercy called a day of: God’s power — A time of mercy called a day of: God’s power
Dew · FIGURATIVE — FIGURATIVE
Power · .Saints ma — .Saints ma
Power Of Christ, The · Saints: Made willingly by — Saints: Made willingly by
Regeneration · General scriptures concerning — General scriptures concerning
Dictionary: Easton's (1897) and Smith's (1863), public domain. Topics: Nave's Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey's Topical Textbook (1897), public domain. Both as parsed by NEUU (CC BY 4.0).
In order that he may rule thus victoriously, it is necessary that there should be a people and an army. In accordance with this union of the thoughts which Psa 110:3 anticipates, בּיום חילך signifies in the day of thy arriere ban, i.e., when thou callest up thy "power of an army" (Ch2 26:13) to muster and go forth to battle. In this day are the people of the king willingnesses (נדבת), i.e., entirely cheerful readiness; ready for any sacrifices, they bring themselves with all that they are and have to meet him. There is no need of any compulsory, lengthy proclamation calling them out: it is no army of mercenaries, but willingly and quickly they present themselves from inward impulse (מתנדּב,…
The kingdom will expand and increase, beginning from Jerusalem, until all enemies are conquered.
Spurgeon's Treasury of David on Psalms 110:3
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth.
Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power, in the beauties of holiness from the womb of the morning: thou hast the dew of thy youth. In consequence of the sending forth of the rod of strength, namely, the power of the gospel, out of Zion, converts will come forward in great numbers to enlist under the banner of the Priest King. Given to him of old, they are his people, and when his power is revealed, these hasten with cheerfulness to own his sway, appearing at the gospel call as it were spontaneously, even as the dew comes forth in the morn…
