Psalm 105:15, the psalmist recalls how God has always protected Israel since the time of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. The psalmist then notes how God rebuked the foreign kings, “Do not touch my anointed ones [or “my messiahs”]; do my prophets no harm.” The phrases “my anointed ones” and “my prophets” are used in parallel lines in the psalm. In biblical poetry, two expressions that are used in parallelism typically refer to the same subject. The “anointed ones” in Psalm 105 thus are God’s prophets.
