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The Messianic Psalms

Six psalms previewing the life of Christ — from begotten Son (Ps 2) to crucified silence (Ps 22) to the Priest-King at God's right hand (Ps 110). Tri-fold taxonomy: Fulfilled in First Coming · Awaiting Second · Progressively Fulfilled.

In the volume of the book it is written of me. Psalm 40:7

Summary

Six psalms preview the life of Christ, from begotten Son (Psalm 2) to crucified silence (Psalm 22) to the Priest-King at God's right hand (Psalm 110).

  • Psalm 110 is the most-cited Old Testament passage in the New.
  • Psalm 22 gives the cross its cry and its details.
  • Each psalm is filed: fulfilled, awaiting, or progressively fulfilled.
  • Luke 24:44 is Christ's own warrant for reading the Psalms this way.
The citation ledgerReceipt № 1
The Psalm
Psalm 22:1

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

The New Testament quotation
Matthew 27:46

Eli, Eli, lama sabachthani? that is to say, My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

spoken by Jesus, from the cross — devastating, and alone.

The Psalms are not read into Christ; the New Testament writers cite them by chapter and verse, and name who is speaking. Here are the receipts.

Christ's own hermeneutic: Luke 24:44

On the road to Emmaus and again in the upper room, the risen Christ tells his disciples that "all things must needs be fulfilled, which are written in the law of Moses, and the prophets, and the psalms, concerning me" (Luke 24:44). The Psalter is named alongside the Law and the Prophets as a body of Christ-witnessing scripture. The six psalms surfaced here are the densest examples, but the Christological reading of the Psalms is Christ's own framing, not a later imposition.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer's Psalms: The Prayer Book of the Bible (1940) supplies the unifying thesis behind Luke 24:44: the Psalms are Christ's own prayer, prayed by the church only in him, his last book published before the Nazi regime's writing ban silenced him, against a state church that had hollowed out the cost of following Jesus.

Psalm 22: the cry from the cross

"My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?" (Ps 22:1): quoted by Jesus from the cross (Matt 27:46; Mark 15:34). Pierced hands and feet (v. 16, contested textual reading: Masoretic ka'ari "like a lion" vs. LXX ōryxan "they pierced"; DSS 5/6HevPs supports a verbal form closer to the LXX). Casting lots for garments (v. 18, Matt 27:35; John 19:23–24). The crimson worm imagery of v. 6 (The Crimson Worm of Psalm 22) cross-references The Scarlet Thread. The closing eleven verses (22:22–31) reverse from cry to declaration of victory: Christ rising from the cross to the Father's presence.

Psalm 110: the most-cited OT passage in the NT

Quoted or alluded to roughly 25 times across the New Testament: the densest single-passage citation. Jesus uses Ps 110:1 to silence the Pharisees (Matt 22:41–46): "How then doth David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying, The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, Till I put thine enemies underneath thy feet?" Peter cites it at Pentecost (Acts 2:34–36); Paul leans on it for the resurrection-session argument (Rom 8:34; 1 Cor 15:25; Eph 1:20–22; Col 3:1); Hebrews builds an entire Melchizedek-priesthood argument from v. 4 (Heb 5:5–6, 5:10, 6:20, 7:15–17, 7:21). The session is inaugurated at the ascension; the enemies-footstool is awaiting the second coming.

How each psalm points to Christ: three categories

Every messianic psalm on this page is labeled with one of three categories: Fulfilled in First Coming (Ps 16, 22, 69, completed in the first advent), Awaiting Second Coming (none on this page, but the category exists for honest taxonomy), or Progressively Fulfilled (Ps 2, 45, 110, inaugurated in the first coming and consummated in the second). No "high / medium / speculative" confidence badges; just the tri-fold category. The taxonomy honors what is genuinely contested (timing of fulfillment, scope of inheritance) without flattening the text.

A second, complementary question is how each psalm points to Christ.

Scholarship runs down three roads: direct prophecy, the psalmist speaks consciously of a figure beyond himself (Walter Kaiser, The Messiah in the Old Testament, 1995; Michael Rydelnik, The Messianic Hope, 2010, cite-only), strongest for Ps 110 and Ps 16, where the apostles' own arguments require it; typological fulfillment, a real historical king or sufferer stands as a God-designed pattern that Christ fills to the full (Patrick Fairbairn, The Typology of Scripture, PD; G. K. Beale & D. A.

Carson, Commentary on the New Testament Use of the Old Testament, 2007, cite-only), the majority reading for Ps 22, 69, and 118; and sensus plenior, a fuller sense the Spirit discloses beyond what the human author consciously grasped, useful where the NT hears Christ in a line the psalmist likely meant of himself (Ps 45:6).

MannaFest does not force one road for every psalm; it names the road per psalm and leaves the critical column standing beside it, the Davidic covenant (2 Sam 7) is the warrant that makes the royal and suffering-king psalms designed, not randomly quotable, to overflow their first singer.

Spurgeon's Treasury of David as primary PD source

Charles H. Spurgeon, The Treasury of David (1869–1885, fully PD) is the standard 19th-century evangelical exposition of the Psalter. Each of the 150 psalms gets a verse-by-verse exposition, hints to homiletics, and a curated set of patristic / Puritan / Reformed quotations. The Treasury is the load-bearing featured commentary across all six drilldowns on this page.

Calvin on the Psalms, Matthew Henry, and Jamieson-Fausset-Brown provide secondary PD voices via "Show other voices" expansion per Doctrine A; see Psalms for the whole-book hub and The Davidic Covenant for the standing warrant (2 Sam 7) behind every royal psalm on this page.

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  1. Psalm 2: The Begotten SonPsalm 2:7

    Progressively Fulfilled. Begotten-Son inaugurated at baptism / resurrection; worldwide inheritance awaiting consummation.

  2. Psalm 16: The Holy One Not Left to SheolPsalm 16:10

    Fulfilled in First Coming. Resurrection of the Holy One: fulfilled at Easter per Acts 2 and Acts 13.

  3. Psalm 22, The Crucifixion PreviewPsalm 22:1

    Fulfilled in First Coming. Crucifixion scene; Christ quotes v. 1 from the cross.

  4. Psalm 45, The Royal WeddingPsalm 45:6

    Progressively Fulfilled. Bridegroom typology inaugurated; marriage supper awaiting Rev 19.

  5. Psalm 69, Zeal, Vinegar, and GallPsalm 69:9

    Fulfilled in First Coming. Rejection, temple-zeal, vinegar-and-gall at the cross.

  6. Psalm 110, The Priest-King at God's Right HandPsalm 110:1

    Progressively Fulfilled. Session inaugurated at ascension; enemies-footstool subjugation awaiting second coming.

The exhibit: the receipts, psalm by psalm

Christ's claim on this page, that the psalms are written “concerning me” (Luke 24:44), is not a mood; it is a set of receipts. Here is the receipt book: a psalm line on the left, the New Testament verse that quotes it on the right, and (the column a bare index cannot supply) the named person doing the quoting.

Nine psalms are laid out in full, two of them (Psalm 22 and Psalm 110) opened close up with their Hebrew words, their oldest witnesses, and the places where honest readers still differ.

Rembrandt's Saul and David: young David playing the harp before a weeping Saul
Rembrandt, Saul and David, c. 1651–58 (Mauritshuis) — David the psalmist, “the sweet psalmist of Israel” (2 Sam 23:1), whose songs the New Testament cites by name
Public domainRembrandtWikimedia Commons →

Three ways a psalm points to Christ

“Messianic” is not one thing in the Psalter; it is three, and collapsing them into a single column of predictions makes the case weaker, not stronger. Every row below belongs to one of these classes, and the weight is in the cumulative shape.

Three modes, one convergence: the Psalter's witness to ChristThe words are spoken to the SonPs 2 · 45:6–7 · 102:25–27 · 110David's own life is the patternPs 22 · 41:9 · 69The king every king fell short ofthe coronation psalms as a body · Ps 72 · 89 · 132Christ

The words are spoken to the Son

the New Testament applies the psalm's words to Christ himself

Ps 2 · 45:6–7 · 102:25–27 · 110

“Unto the Son he saith” (Heb 1:8). Here the New Testament does not say the psalm resembles Christ; it says the one being addressed is Christ.

David's own life is the pattern

what David suffered, Christ suffers more deeply: the pattern scholars call typology

Ps 22 · 41:9 · 69

The psalmist speaks of himself and is answered in someone greater. This is a real correspondence, not a prediction, and calling it prediction weakens it.

The king every king fell short of

the songs written for Israel's kings, read forward after the throne failed

the coronation psalms as a body · Ps 72 · 89 · 132

Every son of David fell short of the words sung at his own crowning. Read together, these songs outgrow the men they were written for and point past them to an everlasting one.

The ledger: the psalm, the quotation, and who said it

Nine psalms, each with the kind of song it is and the person who quotes it by name. The full list further down carries every psalm the New Testament quotes; these nine add the two things a bare list cannot: who is speaking, and what kind of song is being cited.

The receipts are formal. The NT does not gesture at the Psalms — it cites them, by formula:
67×
“it is written” (gegraptai)
23×
fulfillment formula (…that the scripture might be fulfilled)
49×
“the scripture” (hē graphē)

Counted across the whole New Testament, in the site's own tagged Greek text.

Psalm 2a king's song
Ps 2:7

Thou art my Son; this day have I begotten thee.

Acts 13:33

spoken by Paul, at Pisidian Antioch

“as it is written in the second psalm”: cited by canonical location, an ordered, numbered Psalter · also cited at Heb 1:5, Heb 5:5

Psalm 8a hymn of praise
Ps 8:6

Thou hast put all things under his feet.

1 Cor 15:27

spoken by Paul

citation, resurrection reign · also cited at Heb 2:6, Matt 21:16

Psalm 16a song of confidence
Ps 16:10

neither wilt thou suffer thine Holy One to see corruption.

Acts 2:27

spoken by Peter, at Pentecost

“David speaketh concerning him”: the resurrection proof-text · also cited at Acts 13:35

Psalm 16:10: is “thine Holy One” David, or the Christ?contested · readers differ

The claim. Peter (Acts 2:27) and Paul (Acts 13:35) argue the psalm cannot mean David, who did see corruption, so it speaks of the risen Christ.

The critique. The plain sense of the psalm is David's own confidence of preservation; the messianic reading is an apostolic argument built from the fact of David's death, not a claim the psalm predicts a distinct figure. Both readings stand on the page here.

Psalm 22a lament
Ps 22:1

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Matt 27:46

spoken by Jesus, from the cross

direct citation (Aramaic sabachthani in Mark 15:34) · also cited at John 19:24, Heb 2:12

Psalm 22: a prediction, or a lament read back through the cross?contested · readers differ

The claim. Psalm 22:1, 16, 18 map onto the crucifixion (Matt 27:46; John 19:24, 36): the New Testament reads the whole psalm as fulfilled in Christ.

The critique. By its form, Psalm 22 is a lament: its “I” is a suffering righteous man, and the New Testament use is a pattern answered, not a claim that David predicted the crucifixion. Stanley Porter adds a caution: quoting a psalm's first line is not automatically a claim on the whole psalm. Sources: Gunkel & Begrich (1933); Hays, Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels (2016), with Porter's caution.

Psalm 40a lament that turns to thanks
Ps 40:6

a body hast thou prepared me

Heb 10:5

spoken by the writer to the Hebrews

“when he cometh into the world, he saith”

Psalm 40:6: “a body,” or “ears”?contested · the Greek and the Hebrew differ

The claim. Hebrews 10:5 quotes “a body hast thou prepared me” and reads it as the incarnation.

The critique. The Hebrew reads “ears hast thou opened / digged for me”; Hebrews follows the older Greek translation instead. The difference is shown here, not hidden. Source: Swete, Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek (1900).

Psalm 45a royal wedding song
Ps 45:6

Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever

Heb 1:8

spoken by the writer to the Hebrews

“but unto the Son he saith”: the Son addressed as God

Psalm 69a lament
Ps 69:9

the zeal of thine house hath eaten me up

John 2:17

spoken by the disciples (remembering)

“it was written” · also cited at Rom 15:3, John 15:25, Acts 1:20, Matt 27:34

Psalm 110a coronation song, and a priest's oath
Ps 110:1

The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Matt 22:44

spoken by Jesus (then Peter, Acts 2:34; Hebrews, 1:13)

“David himself said by the Holy Ghost” (Mark 12:36): human author and inspiration named together · also cited at Mark 12:36, Luke 20:42, Matt 26:64, Mark 14:62, Acts 2:34, Heb 1:13, Heb 5:6, Heb 7:17

Psalm 118a thanksgiving song, sung at Passover
Ps 118:22

The stone which the builders rejected is become the head of the corner.

Matt 21:42

spoken by Jesus (then Peter, Acts 4:11; 1 Pet 2:7)

“did ye never read in the scriptures” · also cited at Mark 12:10, Acts 4:11, 1 Pet 2:7, John 12:13, Matt 23:39, Heb 13:6

How the New Testament reads the whole Psalter, not only the messianic psalms

The NT quotes the Psalms constantly, and much of it is not messianic prediction; it is Paul reaching for a line about sin, or suffering, or ascent. These rows sit beside the messianic ledger as a different use of the same book.

  • Ps 44:22 — “For thy sake are we killed all the day long.Rom 8:36Paul
  • Ps 51:4 — “That thou mightest be justified when thou speakest.Rom 3:4Paul
  • Ps 68:18 — “Thou hast ascended on high, thou hast led captivity captive.Eph 4:8Paul
  • Ps 116:10 — “I believed, therefore have I spoken.2 Cor 4:13Paul
  • Ps 140:3 — “the poison of asps is under their lips.Rom 3:13Paul (the sin-catena)

Sources: Westcott & Hort (1881), Swete (1900), and Roger Nicole (1958) — indexes of the New Testament's quotations of the Old.

Psalm 22 close up: the psalm Jesus quotes from the cross
a lament: one sufferer's cry
Ps 22:1

My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?

Matt 27:46

Jesus, from the cross

Ps 22:18

They part my garments among them, and cast lots upon my vesture.

John 19:24

John (the soldiers; “that the scripture might be fulfilled”)

Ps 22:22

I will declare thy name unto my brethren.

Heb 2:12

the writer to the Hebrews (the psalm's vindication turn)

One line in this psalm can be read two ways. The old Hebrew copies do not all agree at Psalm 22:16: some give “they pierced my hands and my feet,” others “like a lion at my hands and my feet,” and both readings rest on the same few letters.

Go deeper: the pierced-or-lion reading, and the copies behind eachcontested · the manuscripts differ

The claim. The reading kaʾaru / karu (from karah, “to dig / bore through”) gives “they pierced my hands and my feet” — supported by the Greek LXX ōryxan (“they dug”) and by the Naḥal Ḥever Psalms scroll (5/6 Ḥev), a pre-crucifixion Hebrew text carrying the pierced-form reading.

The critique. The Masoretic Text reads kaʾarî (ʾarî, “lion”), “like a lion [at] my hands and feet.” The “pierced” verb is a reconstruction of the same consonants. Both readings sit in the apparatus; the manuscripts themselves differ.

Naḥal Ḥever Psalms scroll (5/6 Ḥev) — Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library ↗ (the manuscript itself, at the Israel Antiquities Authority's library).

Sources: the Hebrew consonantal text, the Greek (Septuagint) reading, and the scroll linked above.

Psalm 22: a prediction, or an individual lament read through the cross?contested · lament, or prediction

The claim.Jesus quotes the lament's first line from the cross (Matt 27:46 / Mark 15:34); a lament runs from abandonment to rescue, so the whole psalm's arc stands behind the line he quotes: v.16 (the pierced hands), v.18 (John 19:24), v.22 (Heb 2:12).

The critique. By its form, Psalm 22 is a lament; its “I” is a suffering righteous man, and the New Testament is showing a pattern answered, not claiming that David predictedthe crucifixion. Stanley Porter adds a caution: quoting a psalm's first line is not automatically a claim on the whole psalm.

Sources: Gunkel & Begrich, Introduction to Psalms (1933); Hays, Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels (2016); Stanley Porter's caution on the same method.

Justin treats Psalm 22 as messianic at length — the pierced hands and feet, the parted garments, the whole passion arc — in his Dialogue with Trypho (chs. 97–106).
Justin Martyr · Dialogue with Trypho, c. 160an early church witness
Gustave Doré's engraving of the Crucifixion: Christ on the cross above the crowd at Golgotha
Gustave Doré, The Crucifixion (The Doré Bible, 1866) — the scene from which Jesus quotes Psalm 22:1 (Matt 27:46)
Public domainDrawn by Gustave Doré , engraved by J. Gauchard Brunier . Scanned by Michael Gäbler with Epson Perfection 4490 Photo.Wikimedia Commons →
Psalm 110 close up: the priest-king at God's right hand
a coronation song, and a priest's oath

Psalm 110:1 is the single most-cited Old Testament verse in the New Testament. MannaFest's quotation index lists 9 quotations and allusions of Psalm 110, more than any other Old Testament chapter.

Counted in the site's own quotation index, which is what the “most-cited verse” claim rests on.

Ps 110:1

The LORD said unto my Lord, Sit thou at my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

Matt 22:44

Jesus (then Peter, Acts 2:34; Hebrews, 1:13)

Ps 110:4

Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchizedek.

Heb 5:6

the writer to the Hebrews

Psalm 110:1: the Davidic-sonship puzzle Jesus himself setscontested · teaching edge

Jesus asks (Matt 22:45): if David, in the Spirit, calls the Messiah “my Lord,” how is the Messiah David's son? The knot is only visible in the Hebrew, where two different words stand behind the one English “Lord”: YHWH (the LORD who speaks) says to ʾadoni (David's Lord), “Sit at my right hand.” David's own son is David's own Lord: the fact that unlocks the puzzle.

This one is a teaching puzzle, not a challenge to the claim. Word meanings from Strong's lexicon (public domain).

Edersheim's Appendix IX records that the ancient synagogue read Psalm 110 as “applied throughout to the Messiah” (Midrash on Psalm xviii.36) — the rabbinic-reception ground beneath the New Testament's headline verse.
Alfred Edersheim · Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Appendix IX, 1883 (PD)ancient Jewish reception
Gustave Doré's The Ascension: Christ rising in glory amid circling angels
Gustave Doré, The Ascension (L'Ascension), 1879 — “Sit thou at my right hand” (Psalm 110:1; Acts 2:34)
Public domainGustave DoréWikimedia Commons →
The synagogue's own reading: the ancient Aramaic Psalms

This is how the psalm was heard, not a proof. Where the ancient Aramaic paraphrase of the Psalms, read aloud in the synagogue, names the King Messiah, it is worth hearing in its own voice.

Thy beauty, O King Messiah.
The Aramaic Psalms (Targum), on Psalm 45 · quoted in Edersheim, Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Appendix IX (1883)how the synagogue read it
the King Messiah… Son of David the King.
The Aramaic Psalms (Targum), on Psalm 72 · quoted in Edersheim, Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Appendix IX (1883)how the synagogue read it

Where to go next

Sources
  • Westcott & Hort, The New Testament in the Original Greek (1881) — index of Old Testament quotations; H.B. Swete, Introduction to the Old Testament in Greek (1900); Roger Nicole, “The New Testament Use of the Old Testament” (1958).
  • Alfred Edersheim, The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah, Appendix IX (1883).
  • Tagged Hebrew and Greek biblical text data (CC BY 4.0) — the source behind this site's word tools and its quotation counts.
  • Hermann Gunkel & Joachim Begrich, Introduction to Psalms (1933; ET 1998) — the classes of psalm used here.
  • Richard B. Hays, Echoes of Scripture in the Gospels (2016), with Stanley Porter's caution on the same method.
  • Justin Martyr, Dialogue with Trypho (c. 160), Ante-Nicene Fathers vol. 1.
  • The Aramaic Psalms (Targum), in English translation.
  • David M. Hay, Glory at the Right Hand: Psalm 110 in Early Christianity (1973).
  • Leon Levy Dead Sea Scrolls Digital Library — the Naḥal Ḥever Psalms scroll (Ps 22:16).

The receipts: every psalm the New Testament quotes

Every quotation on the site's index that touches the Psalms — 72 of them. The psalm line on the left, the New Testament verse that quotes it on the right. Here are the first three; the rest open below, psalm by psalm.

Show all 72 quotations, psalm by psalm38 psalms

Psalm 2

  • Ps 2:1Acts 4:25

    'Why did the heathen rage' — the believers' prayer ('who by the mouth of thy servant David hast said')

  • Ps 2:7Heb 5:5

    'Thou art my Son, to day have I begotten thee' (Christ's high-priestly appointment)

  • Ps 2:7Heb 1:5

    'Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee' (Son superior to angels, w/ 2Sa 7:14)

  • Ps 2:7Acts 13:33

    'Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee' ('as it is written in the second psalm')

Psalm 4

Psalm 5

Psalm 8

  • Ps 8:2Matt 21:16

    'Out of the mouth of babes and sucklings thou hast perfected praise'

  • Ps 8:4Heb 2:6

    'What is man, that thou art mindful of him?' ('one in a certain place testified')

  • Ps 8:61 Cor 15:27

    'He hath put all things under his feet' (resurrection reign)

Psalm 10

  • Ps 10:7Rom 3:14

    'Whose mouth is full of cursing and bitterness' (sin catena)

Psalm 14

  • Ps 14:1Rom 3:10

    'There is none righteous, no, not one' — head of Paul's catena of universal sin

Psalm 16

  • Ps 16:10Acts 13:35

    'Thou shalt not suffer thine Holy One to see corruption'

  • Ps 16:8Acts 2:25

    'Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell' — resurrection proof ('David speaketh concerning him')

Psalm 18

  • Ps 18:49Rom 15:9

    'I will confess to thee among the Gentiles' (Gentile-praise catena, 'as it is written')

Psalm 19

Psalm 22

  • Ps 22:1Matt 27:46

    'My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me?' — cry of dereliction (invokes whole Psalm 22)

  • Ps 22:1Mark 15:34

    'Eloi, Eloi, lama sabachthani' — cry of dereliction

  • Ps 22:18John 19:24

    'They parted my raiment among them' (soldiers cast lots; 'that the scripture might be fulfilled')

  • Ps 22:22Heb 2:12

    'I will declare thy name unto my brethren' (Christ not ashamed to call us brethren)

Psalm 24

  • Ps 24:11 Cor 10:26

    'The earth is the Lord's, and the fulness thereof' (meat offered to idols)

Psalm 31

  • Ps 31:5Luke 23:46

    'Into thy hands I commend my spirit' — the last word from the cross

Psalm 32

  • Ps 32:1Rom 4:7

    'Blessed are they whose iniquities are forgiven' (David on imputed righteousness)

Psalm 34

Psalm 36

  • Ps 36:1Rom 3:18

    'There is no fear of God before their eyes' (close of the sin catena)

Psalm 40

  • Ps 40:6Heb 10:5

    'Sacrifice and offering thou wouldest not, but a body hast thou prepared me'

Psalm 41

  • Ps 41:9John 13:18

    'He that eateth bread with me hath lifted up his heel against me' (Judas; 'that the scripture may be fulfilled')

Psalm 44

  • Ps 44:22Rom 8:36

    'For thy sake we are killed all the day long' ('as it is written')

Psalm 45

  • Ps 45:6Heb 1:8

    'Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever' (the Son addressed as God)

Psalm 51

  • Ps 51:4Rom 3:4

    'That thou mightest be justified in thy sayings' (God true, every man a liar)

Psalm 68

  • Ps 68:18Eph 4:8

    'When he ascended up on high, he led captivity captive' ('he saith')

Psalm 69

  • Ps 69:22Rom 11:9

    'Let their table be made a snare' ('David saith')

  • Ps 69:25Acts 1:20

    'Let his habitation be desolate' — on Judas ('it is written in the book of Psalms')

  • Ps 69:4John 15:25

    'They hated me without a cause' ('that the word might be fulfilled that is written in their law', w/ Ps 35:19)

  • Ps 69:9John 2:17

    'The zeal of thine house hath eaten me up' (temple cleansing, disciples remember)

  • Ps 69:9Rom 15:3

    'The reproaches of them that reproached thee fell on me' (Christ pleased not himself)

Psalm 78

  • Ps 78:2Matt 13:35

    'I will open my mouth in parables' — fulfillment formula

  • Ps 78:24John 6:31

    'He gave them bread from heaven to eat' (bread-of-life discourse, 'as it is written')

Psalm 82

Psalm 89

  • Ps 89:20Acts 13:22

    'I have found David... a man after mine own heart' (Paul at Antioch, w/ 1Sa 13:14)

Psalm 91

  • Ps 91:11Luke 4:10

    the tempter cites 'He shall give his angels charge over thee'

  • Ps 91:11Matt 4:6

    the tempter cites 'He shall give his angels charge over thee' ('it is written')

Psalm 94

Psalm 95

  • Ps 95:11Heb 4:3

    'They shall not enter into my rest' (the remaining sabbath-rest)

  • Ps 95:7Heb 3:7

    'To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts' ('as the Holy Ghost saith')

Psalm 102

  • Ps 102:25Heb 1:10

    'Thou, Lord, in the beginning hast laid the foundation of the earth'

Psalm 104

Psalm 109

Psalm 110

  • Ps 110:1Matt 22:44

    'The Lord said unto my Lord' — the Davidic-sonship question (most-cited OT verse in NT)

  • Ps 110:1Matt 26:64

    'sitting on the right hand of power' — before the Sanhedrin (w/ Dan 7:13)

  • Ps 110:1Luke 20:42

    'The Lord said unto my Lord' (Davidic-sonship question)

  • Ps 110:1Heb 1:13

    'Sit on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool'

  • Ps 110:1Acts 2:34

    'The Lord said unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand' (ascension proof)

  • Ps 110:1Mark 12:36

    'The Lord said to my Lord' ('David himself said by the Holy Ghost')

  • Ps 110:1Mark 14:62

    'on the right hand of power' (before the high priest, w/ Dan 7:13)

  • Ps 110:4Heb 7:17

    'Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec' (eternal priesthood)

  • Ps 110:4Heb 5:6

    'Thou art a priest for ever after the order of Melchisedec'

Psalm 112

  • Ps 112:92 Cor 9:9

    'He hath dispersed abroad... his righteousness remaineth' ('as it is written')

Psalm 116

Psalm 117

Psalm 118

Psalm 132

  • Ps 132:11Acts 2:30

    'of the fruit of his loins... he would raise up Christ' (Davidic oath)

Psalm 140

Where it leads

On The church age44

On Jesus69

Sources are named where they are used. Public-domain commentators are quoted in full or summarized; living authors are quoted briefly and cited to the book or sermon. Scripture is the American Standard Version.