Psalms 89:51

Cp. Psalms 79:12, of which Psalms 89:50 is also a partial reminiscence.

the footsteps of thine anointed They are like a rabble hooting and insulting him wherever he goes. Cp. Psalms 17:11; Jeremiah 12:6 (R.V.). May not the phrase have been suggested by the recollection of actual insults offered to the discrowned Jehoiachin as he was led through the streets of Babylon in the conqueror's triumph? Insults offered to the king are insults at once to Jehovah and to the people whose representative he was.

The Targum interprets the words of the delay of Messiah's Advent. "For thine enemies reproach, O Lord, they reproach the slowness of the footsteps of Thine Anointed."