The title of the 60th psalm tells us it is connected with what we read in 2 Samuel 8, but its position in the Book of Psalms shows that it is intended by the Holy Spirit for the coming day when God will take up Israel again for blessing. The psalm is the voice of the remnant,—those among the sons of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob who, when the Christians have been caught away to meet the Lord in the air, and to be forever with Him (1 Thessalonians 4), will read the Bible with believing minds, and find in both the old and New Testaments the proof of Israel's waywardness and terrible sins. Owning their guilt, confessing their sins to God, these repentant ones will look for redemption at the appearing of the Lord Jesus as their Messiah. For them, as we have before noted, the Psalms were written.
In verse 5, "Thy beloved," a name of Jesus (Matthew 3:1717And lo a voice from heaven, saying, This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased. (Matthew 3:17)) is in the plural, and should be read "Thy beloved ones,"—the remnant identified in the grace of God with the lowly Man who once trod the earth and found rejection far more deeply than the remnant will feel it. Verses 6-8 are God's answer to the cry of faith; He will reclaim the land so long given up to the enemy.