Psalms 18:48

"He that rescueth me from mine enemies;

Yea, thou liftest me up above them that rise up against me;

Thou deliverest me from the violent man.

Therefore will I give thanks unto thee, O Jehovah, among the nations,

And will sing praises unto thy name.

Great deliverance giveth he to his king,

And Jehovah showeth lovingkindness to his anointed,

To David and to his seed forevermore."

"Will I give thanks ... among the nations." The apostle Paul did not hesitate to take this statement as a prophecy "Of the calling of the Gentiles in Christ Jesus" (Romans 15:8-12). "Nations" in the Old Testament invariably means "Gentiles."

"To his anointed." "These words at their full value portray the Lord's Anointed, ultimately the Messiah."[25] "This psalm is Messianic in that it reflects God's covenant with David and his descendants (2 Samuel 7:12-16)."[26]

It will be recalled that in that prophecy, God promised David that "of his seed" one would arise who would build God's house (The Holy Church), that His Kingdom should be established and that the throne of it would endure forever.

David doubtless claimed some of those wonderful promises in the words of this psalm without any full understanding whatever of what their ultimate fulfillment really meant. For example, David probably thought that the reprobate Solomon would be that "King." The prophecy, without any doubt whatever, was of the Holy Messiah, and not of any of the lesser kings of the earthly Davidic dynasty, which produced as shameful a "batch" of evil kings as ever lived.