Psalms Chapter 110 verse 4 Holy Bible

ASV Psalms 110:4

Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent: Thou art a priest for ever After the order of Melchizedek.
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BBE Psalms 110:4

The Lord has made an oath, and will not take it back. You are a priest for ever, after the order of Melchizedek.
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DARBY Psalms 110:4

Jehovah hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art priest for ever after the order of Melchisedek.
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KJV Psalms 110:4

The LORD hath sworn, and will not repent, Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.
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WBT Psalms 110:4


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WEB Psalms 110:4

Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind: "You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek."
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YLT Psalms 110:4

Jehovah hath sworn, and doth not repent, `Thou `art' a priest to the age, According to the order of Melchizedek.'
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Pulpit Commentary

Pulpit CommentaryVerse 4. - The Lord hath sworn, and he will not repent. "A fresh revelation" (Cheyne). David, admitted into the councils of the Most High, has been made aware that the Messiah is, by God's decree, to be both King and Priest. God has "sworn" this, and will certainly not draw back from his oath. Thou art a priest forever after the order of Melchizedek. Not, like ordinary priests, a priest for a few years, or for a lifetime, but a priest forever and ever (לעולם) - seeing "he ever liveth to make intercession for us" (Hebrews 7:25). And a priest "after the order of Melchizedek." Not, that is, after the order of Aaron, who was a priest and nothing more, but after that of Melchizedek, the elder priesthood, which combined the offices of priest and king (see Hebrews 5:6-10; Hebrews 7:1-10, 20-28).

Ellicott's Commentary

Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(4) After the order of Melchizedek.--This follows the LXX. and Vulg. Better, after the manner of since there could have been with the psalmist no intention of contrasting this priesthood with that of Aaron, as there naturally was when the Aaronic order had come to an end or was visibly doomed to extinction.The previous history of Israel itself offered no example of the formal union of kingly and priestly offices in one person. It first appears in idea in Zechariah 6:12-13; in actual fact in the pontificate of Jonathan (1 Maccabees 10:21). It is true that the royal and priestly functions were sometimes united, especially in the case of David, and in 2Samuel 8:18, David's sons are called "priests" (in English version, "chief rulers;" margin, or princes). It was therefore necessary to go back to Melchizedek, in whom history recognised this sanctioned and formal union (Genesis 14:18). For the various points brought out in the Epistle to the Hebrews 6, 7, see New Testament Commentary.