Messiah because Thou lovest righteousness,' &c. Comp. Levy, Targum. Wörterb. vol. ii.

p. 41 a.

The Midrash on the Psalm deals exclusively with the inscription (of which it has several

and significant interpretations) with the opening words of the Psalm, and with the words

(ver. 16), 'Instead of thy fathers shall be thy children,' but at the same time it clearly

indicates that the Psalm applies to the latter, or Messianic, days.

On Ps. l. 2 Siphré (p. 143 a ) notes that four times God would appear, the last being in the

days of King Messiah.

Ps. lx. 7. Bemidbar R. on Num. vii. 48, Parash. 14 (ed. Warsh p. 54 a ) contains some very

curious Haggadic discussion on this verse. But it also broaches the opinion of its

referenc e to the Messiah.

Ps. lxi. 6 (7 in the Hebrew). 'Thou shalt add days to the days of the king,' is rendered by

the Targum: 'Thou shalt add days to the days of King Messiah.' There is a curious gloss

on this in Pirqé d. R. Eliez. c. 19 (ed. Lemberg, p. 24 b ), in which Adam is supposed to

have taken 70 of his years, and added them to those of King David. According to another

tradition, this accounts for Adam living 930 years, this is, 70 less than 1,000, which

constitute before God one day, and so the threate ning had been literally fulfilled: In the

day thou eatest thereof, thou shalt die.

Ps. lxi. 8 (9 in the Hebrew). The expression, 'that I may daily perform my vows,' is

applied in the Targum to the day in which the Messiah is anointed King.

Ps. lxviii. 31 (32 in the Hebrew). On the words 'Princes shall come out of Egypt,' there is

a very remarkable comment in the Talmud (Pes. 118 b) and in Shemoth R. on Ex. xxvi.

15, &c. (ed. Warsh. p. 50 b), in which we are told that in the latter days all nations would

bring gifts to the King Messiah, beginning with Egypt. 'And lest it be thought that He

(Messiah) would not accept it from them, the Holy One says to the Messiah: Accept from

them hospitable entertainment,' or it might be rendered, 'Accept it from them; they have

given hospitable entertainment to My son.'

Ps. lxxii. This Psalm also was viewed by the ancient Synagogue as throughout Messianic,

as indicated by the fact that the Targum renders the very first verse: 'Give the sentence of

Thy judgment to the King Messiah, and Thy justice to the Son of David the King,' which

is re-echoed by the Midrash on the passage (ed. Warsh. p. 55 b ) which applies it

explicitly to the Messiah, with reference to Is. xi. 1. Similarly, the Talmud applies ver. 16

to Messianic times (in a very hyperbolical passage, Shabb. 30 b, line 4 from the bottom).

The last clause of verse 16 is applied, in Keth. 111 b, line 21 from top, and again in the

Midr. on Eccl. i. 9, to the Messiah sending down manna like Moses.6