But the Lord shall endure for ever,.... When antichrist is entirely ruined, his cities destroyed, and the memorial of them perished, then "shall the Lord sit for ever" , as the words may be rendered; that is, as a Jewish writer paraphrases them, in rest and quiet.
The words may be expressive of the unchangeableness and eternity and power of God; the Chaldee paraphrase of them is, yyd armym, "the Word of the Lord is for ever; his habitation is in the highest heavens".
And they may very well be interpreted of Christ, the essential Word of God, who is the unchangeable, everlasting, and almighty God; and who sits King for ever, and must sit at God's right hand, in the highest heavens, until all his enemies are made his footstool; and to him most properly do the following things in this verse Ps 9:8 belong:he hath prepared his throne for judgment; for the administration of judgment in this world, for the particular judgment after death, and for the general judgment after the resurrection of the dead; which seems by what follows to be chiefly meant, and which will come on after the destruction of antichrist; and all things are preparing for it; the day is appointed in which God will judge the world; Christ is ordained to be the Judge of quick and dead; devils and ungodly men are reserved to the judgment of the great day; the throne is ready, which will be a white one, Re 20:11; denoting the purity, justice, and uprightness of the Judge, who himself is at the door.
bvy "sedebit", Montanus, Junius & Tremellius, Cocceius, Michaelis; so Ainsworth; "sedet", Vatablus, Musculus. R. Abraham Seba in Tzeror Hammor, fol. 150.