“I have made a covenant with my chosen, I have sworn unto David my servant,”
God's covenantal word is cited: "You said, 'I have made a covenant with my chosen one, I have sworn to David my servant." The direct quotation of God's promise to David establishes the textual basis for the psalm's theology. The covenant is understood as made with an elected individual through whom God's purposes are carried out.
Church Fathers on Psalms 89:3
1. Understand, beloved, this Psalm, which I am about to explain, by the grace of God, of our hope in the Lord Jesus Christ, and be of good cheer, because He who promised, will fulfil all, as He has fulfilled much: for it is not our own merit, but His mercy, that gives us confidence in Him. He Himself is meant, in my belief, by “the understanding of Æthan the Israelite:” which has given this Psalm its title. You see then, who is meant by Æthan: but the meaning of the word is…
Nicene & Post-Nicene / Ante-Nicene Fathers translations · public domain
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