Psalms 89:27

I also corresponds to the emphatic Heat the beginning of Psalms 89:26. It is God's answer to David's cry of filial love. The titles sonand first-bornapplied to Israel (Exodus 4:22; Jeremiah 31:9) are conferred upon the king who is Israel's representative: and the promise made to Israel (Deuteronomy 26:19, cp. Psalms 28:1) is here transferred to David,

I also will appoint him as firstborn,

Most high above the kings of the earth.

David's posterity is included in his person: and the high promise, never fully realised in any of his successors, points forward to Him Whom St John styles in language borrowed from this verse and Psalms 89:37, "the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the prince of the kings of the earth."