89:26 He will call out to me,
‘You are my father, 1 my God, and the protector who delivers me.’ 2
1:5 For to which of the angels did God 3 ever say, “You are my son! Today I have fathered you”? 4 And in another place 5 he says, 6 “I will be his father and he will be my son.” 7
1 sn You are my father. The Davidic king was viewed as God’s “son” (see 2 Sam 7:14; Ps 2:7). The idiom reflects ancient Near Eastern adoption language associated with covenants of grant, by which a lord would reward a faithful subject by elevating him to special status, referred to as “sonship.” Like a son, the faithful subject received an “inheritance,” viewed as an unconditional, eternal gift. Such gifts usually took the form of land and/or an enduring dynasty. See M. Weinfeld, “The Covenant of Grant in the Old Testament and in the Ancient Near East,” JAOS 90 (1970): 184-203, for general discussion and some striking extra-biblical parallels.
2 tn Heb “the rocky summit of my deliverance.”
3 tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
4 tn Grk “I have begotten you.”
5 tn Grk “And again,” quoting another OT passage.
6 tn The words “he says” are not in the Greek text but are supplied to make a complete English sentence. In the Greek text this is a continuation of the previous sentence, but English does not normally employ such long and complex sentences.
7 tn Grk “I will be a father to him and he will be a son to me.”