I’m gonna read this psalm like a contemporary of David, not of Donald. When this song was written, Yeshua Bar Yosef wouldn’t be born for another thousand years, so calling the psalm prophecy — as Spurgeon does — is a stretch.
“The Lord said to my Lord, / ‘Sit at My right hand, / Till I make Your enemies Your footstool.’” Spurgeon says that’s a reference to Jesus as messiah, and the preacher gives the vain king credit for actually writing this “Psalm of David.”
But, through my eyes as a regular reader, I see this psalm as having been penned by a royal toady who knew what the king wanted to hear. “My Lord” in that first line and later on refers to King David himself, not to Spurgeon’s Jesus.
That is, unless our gentle, forgiving Jesus is capable of murder: “He shall execute kings in the day of His wrath. / He shall judge among the nations, / He shall fill the places with dead bodies, / He shall execute the heads of many countries.”