5. there are set thrones—or, "do sit, thrones," used for the occupants, David's sons (2Sa 8:18).

     6, 7. Let peace—including prosperity, everywhere prevail.

     8, 9. In the welfare of the city, as its civil, and especially the religious relations, was involved that of Israel.

     26. As the degeneracy had shown itself most in the magistrates (Isa 1:17-23), so, at the "restoration," these shall be such as the theocracy "at the first" had contemplated, namely, after the Babylonish restoration in part and typically, but fully and antitypically under Messiah (Isa 32:1; 52:8; Jer 33:7; Mt 19:28).