Psalms 92:10
But You have exalted my horn like that of a wild ox; with fine oil I have been anointed.
BSB
ASV
But my horn hast thou exalted like the horn of the wild-ox: I am anointed with fresh oil.
KJV
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn: I shall be anointed with fresh oil.
But my horn shalt thou exalt like the horn of an unicorn. The believer rejoices that he shall not be suffered to perish, but shall be strengthened and enabled to triumph over his enemies, by the divine aid. The unicorn may have been some gigantic ox or buffalo now unknown, and perhaps extinct—among the ancients it was the favourite symbol of unconquerable power; the psalmist adopts it as his emblem. Faith takes delight in foreseeing the mercy of the Lord, and sings of what he will do as well as of what he has done.
Grace is the anointing of the Spirit; when this is given to help in the time of need, and is received, as there is occasion, from the fulness that is in Christ Jesus, we are then anointed with fresh oil. Some read it, When I grow old thou shalt anoint me with fresh oil. My old age shalt thou exalt with rich mercy; so the LXX.
1834–1892
DAVID IS very positive. He does not say, "I hope I shall be anointed with fresh oil and I have a pleasing expectation that it may be so." But he speaks of his future as absolutely certain—"I shall be anointed with fresh oil." Nor will it appear at all wonderful that he should be so positive if you read the Psalm, for his subject there is the ever-living and all-sufficient God. And when we get near to God we get into the region of positive certainty.
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
The walk8
Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Psalms 23:5You prepare a table before me in the presence of my enemies. You anoint my head with oil; my cup overflows.
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You, however, have an anointing from the Holy One, and all of you know the truth.
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
Now to Him who is able to do immeasurably more than all we ask or imagine, according to His power that is at work within us,
You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
The LORD is my chosen portion and my cup; You have made my lot secure.
How great is Your goodness which You have laid up for those who fear You, which You have bestowed before the sons of men on those who take refuge in You!
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Psalms 45:7You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, your God, has anointed you above your companions with the oil of joy.
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You have loved righteousness and hated wickedness; therefore God, Your God, has anointed You above Your companions with the oil of joy.”
For You grant him blessings forever; You cheer him with joy in Your presence.
The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty…