Sometimes we feel trapped, as if in prison, by life’s problems. This psalm is like a flash of lightning that illuminates the prison and shows us an unexpected escape toward heaven. Despite some obscure expressions, the overall meaning is clear: from Zion will come the one who will be victorious over all the hostile powers (vv. 5-6). The struggle will be challenging, but God will ultimately ask him to sit at his right hand, and all will be subject to him. Our Lord is the Son of God. We can pray with this psalm, which evokes the political consciousness of authority. A Christian reading asks that the psalm be free from its violence. Christ is king and priest, but king of justice, love, and peace; the priest who entered the sanctuary through his blood and has opened access to it for us. Let us pray for the people of God, who are kingly and priestly.