“It shall be established for ever as the moon, and as a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.”
The abrupt shift: "But now you have cast off and rejected; you are full of wrath against your anointed." The sudden transition from the eternal covenant promise to God's apparent rejection creates the psalm's central crisis. The rejection of the anointed becomes unexplainable given the prior covenantal promises.
Church Fathers on Psalms 89:37
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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