Ps. 89.24 (will be with him)

My faithfulness / and my loyal-love / will be with him
through my name / his horn will be raised. 

In these verse we are again seeing the heavenly realm put at the disposal of David. Verse 14 says, “Loyal-love and faithfulness stand before you.” As we saw there, these covenantal qualities of Yhwh are, here, agents of Yhwh; they are like ‘angels’ of his that due (or, are?) his bidding. Here, those agents are now sent to be ‘with David’. The throne of David will now mirror and enact the ‘throne of Yhwh’ on earth because it will be surrounded by the same powerful agents. We must recall—Yhwh’s faithfulness is what is praised in the divine council (vs. 5)! It is mentioned seven times in the psalm, as the perfect quality. It is ‘fixed in the heavens’ and his loyal-love is ‘built to last forever’. (vs. 2). For these qualities to be ‘with David’ is an utterly magnificent thing. And yet perhaps more astounding is that this ‘agency’ is only intensified in the following line when Yhwh says that David’s horn will be raised “through my name”. Now, something more intimate than the angels is that through which David will find success: the divine Name of Yhwh. It is a profound progression of images, from agency to presence/Name. This will intensify in the following verses where Yhwh will come to adopt David as his ‘son’. 

All of this will only compound the sense of betrayal in the concluding lament portion of the psalm. There, as we will see, the “loyal-love and faithfulness” have fled; Yhwh has repudiated the covenant (vs. 39) and hidden himself from David (vs. 46).