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89:46-51 O Lord, Show Your Steadfast Love by Restoring David's Throne. There is great comfort in the promise of an enduring Davidic house, and thus the present low estate of God's people is not the end of their story; yet the faithful pray that even now God may see fit to relieve the hardship. Each generation of the faithful knows that its time is short (vv. 47-48) and yearns to see some foretaste of God's ultimate vindication of his promises to his people. It feels wrong for God's people, whose king is eventually to rule all the kings of the earth (v. 27), to be subject to the insults of all the many nations (v. 50), so that the Gentiles mock the footsteps of God's anointed (v. 51). The appeal is to God's steadfast love and faithfulness (v. 49, see note on vv. 1-4) expressed in his oath to David (v. 24), and not to any claims of merit.