The Lord at thy right hand,.... These words are either directed to Christ, at whose right hand the Lord was to help and assist him, Ps 16:8 or to the church, consisting of the Lord's willing people, at whose right hand he is to save them; is ready to help them, and is a present help to them in time of need, Ps 109:31 or rather to Jehovah the Father, at whose right hand the "Adonai", or Lord, even David's Lord, and every believer's Lord, is, as in Ps 110:1, and who is spoken of in all the following clauses; and to whom the things mentioned are ascribed, and so what immediately follows:shall strike through kings in the day of his wrath; not only strike at them, and strike them; but strike them through, utterly destroy them.
This is to be understood of the kings and princes that stood up and set themselves against him, Ps 2:2, which is interpreted of Herod and Pontius Pilate, Ac 4:26, who both died shameful deaths; as did another Herod, that set himself against the apostles and church of Christ, Ac 12:1, and also of Heathens, kings and emperors, who persecuted the Christians; as Diocletian, Maximilian, and others; who are represented as fleeing to rocks and mountains, to hide them from the Lamb, the great day of his wrath being come, Re 6:15, and also of the antichristian kings, that shall be gathered together to the battle of the Lord God Almighty, and shall be overcome and slain by Christ, Re 16:14 which will be a time of wrath, when the vials of God's wrath shall be poured out upon the antichristian kings and states; see Re 16:1.