Psalm 110 is about a kind of ruler Israel can’t manufacture:

Psalm 110 fuses throne and altar—kingship and priesthood—into one divinely sworn office, implying that Israel’s deepest political problem isn’t weak leadership but the impossibility of separating power from mediation: the true ruler must also be the one who can stand before God. And it’s unsettlingly honest about how that rule arrives—not by retreating from conflict but by reigning ‘in the midst of enemies,’ with worshipful volunteers and violent judgment sharing the same coronation scene.