Psalms 89:26

He will call out to me, ‘You are my father, ¹  my God, and the protector who delivers me.’ ² 

2Sa 7:14; 2Sa 22:47; 1Ch 22:10; Ps 18:46; Ps 43:4; Ps 62:2,6,7; Ps 95:1; Isa 50:7-9; Mt 26:39,42; Mr 15:34; Lu 23:46; Joh 11:41; Joh 20:17; Heb 1:5

¹ sn You are my father. The Davidic king was viewed as God’s “son” (see 2 Sam 7:14; Ps 2:7). The idiom reflects ancient Near Eastern adoption language associated with covenants of grant, by which a lord would reward a faithful subject by elevating him to special status, referred to as “sonship.” Like a son, the faithful subject received an “inheritance,” viewed as an unconditional, eternal gift. Such gifts usually took the form of land and/or an enduring dynasty. See M. Weinfeld, “The Covenant of Grant in the Old Testament and in the Ancient Near East,” JAOS 90 (1970): 184-203, for general discussion and some striking extra-biblical parallels.

² tn Heb “the rocky summit of my deliverance.”