Bemid. R. 18, last line, the staff of Aaron, which is said to have been in the hands of
every king t ill the Temple was destroyed, and since then to have been hid, is to be
restored to King Messiah, according to this verse; and in Yalkut on this Psalm (vol. ii.
Par. 869, p. 124 c) this staff is supposed to be the same as that of Jacob with which he
crossed Jordan, and of Judah, and of Moses, and of Aaron, and the same which David had
in his hand when he slew Goliath, it being also the same which will be restored to the
Messiah.
Verse 7 is also applied in Yalkut (u. s. col. d ) to Messianic times, when streams of the
blood of the wicked should flow out, and birds come to drink of that flood.
Ps. cxvi. 9 is in Ber. R. 96 supposed to indicate that the dead of Palestine would live first
in the days of the Messiah.
Ps. cxvi. 13 has been already commented upon.
On Ps. cxix . 33 the Midrash remarks that there were three who asked wisdom of God:
David, Solomon, and the King Messiah, the latter according to Ps. lxxii. 1.
Ps. cxx . 7 is applied to the Messiah in the Midrash (p. 91 a, ed. Warsh.), the first clause
being brought into connection with Is. lvii. 19, with reference to the Messiah's dealings
with the Gentiles, the resistance being described in the second clause, and the result in Ps.
ii. 9.
Ps. cxxi. 1 is applied in Tanchuma (Par. Toledoth 14, ed. Warsh. p. 37 b. See also Yalkut,
vol. ii. 878, p. 127 c) to the Messiah, with special reference to Zech. iv. 7 and Is. lii. 7.
Ps. cxxvi. 2. In Tanchuma on Ex. xv. i. (ed. Warsh. p. 87 a ) this verse is applied to
Messianic times in a rapt description, in which successively Is. lx. 5, Is. lviii. 8, Is. xxxv.
5, 6, Jer. xxxi. 13, and Ps. cxxvi. 2, are grouped together as all applying to these latter
days.
The promise in Ps. cxxxii. 18 is applied in Pirké de R. El. c. 28 to Messianic times, and
verse 14 in Ber. R. 56.
So is Ps. cxxxiii. 3 in Ber. R. 65 (p. 122 a), closing lines.
The words in Ps. cxlii. 5 are applied in Ber. R. 74 to the resurrection of Israel in Palestine
in the days of Messiah.
The words, 'When thou awakest,' in Prov . vi. 22 are Messianically applied in Siphré on
Deut. (ed. Friedmann, p. 74 b).
In Midr. on Eccl. i. 9 it is shown at great length that the Messiah would re-enact all the
miracles of the past.