Acts Chapter 2 verse 25 Holy Bible
For David saith concerning him, I beheld the Lord always before my face; For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
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For David said of him, I saw the Lord before my face at all times, for he is at my right hand, so that I may not be moved:
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for David says as to him, I foresaw the Lord continually before me, because he is at my right hand that I may not be moved.
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For David speaketh concerning him, I foresaw the Lord always before my face, for he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved:
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For David says concerning him, 'I saw the Lord always before my face, For he is on my right hand, that I should not be moved.
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for David saith in regard to him: I foresaw the Lord always before me -- because He is on my right hand -- that I may not be moved;
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 25. - Saith for speaketh, A.V.; he held for foresaw, A.V. The sixteenth psalm is ascribed to David in the title prefixed to it in the Hebrew and the LXX. Without pronouncing the titles to be infallible, we must confess that they carry great weight with them in the absence of any strong internal evidence against them. Meyer speaks of the psalm as "certainly later than David," and Ewald and others ascribe it to the time of the Captivity; but Hitzig thinks the internal evidence is in favor of its belonging to the time before David ascended the throne ('Speaker's Commentary'). We may safely rest on the authority of St. Peter here and St. Paul (Acts 13:35, 36), and be satisfied that it is really David's. The manner in which it is quoted by the two apostles is also very strong evidence that by the Jews of that day it was generally admitted to be a Messianic psalm. The following quotation is verbatim from the LXX.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(25) For David speaketh concerning him.--More accurately, in reference to Him--i.e., in words which extended to Him. Reading Psalms 16 without this interpretation, it seems as if it spoke only of the confidence of the writer that he would be himself delivered from the grave and death. Some interpreters confine that confidence to a temporal deliverance; some extend it to the thought of immortality, or even of a resurrection. But Peter had been taught, both by his Lord and by the Spirit, that all such hopes extend beyond themselves--that the ideal of victory after suffering, no less than that of the righteous sufferer, was realised in Christ. The fact of the Resurrection had given a new meaning to prophecies which would not, of themselves, have suggested it, but which were incomplete without it.He is on my right hand.--The Psalmist thought of the Eternal as the warrior thinks of him who, in the conflict of battle, extends his shield over the comrade who is on the left hand, and so guards him from attack. When the Son of Man is said to sit on the right hand of God (Psalm 110:1; Matthew 26:64) the imagery is different, and brings before us the picture of a king seated on his throne with his heir sitting in the place of honour by his side.
