“For when Baal bestows eternal life, he invites the life-given to a banquet; he invites him to a banquet and gives him to drink.” In these verses of the psalm we have the background of the messianic banquet which figures so prominently in the Qumran literature, the other intertestamental literature, and, of course, in the New Testament; cf. NOTE on Ps 50:23. 9. They are sated. Referring to gods and men. Cf. Ugar. dymru ilm wnšm, “who will fatten gods and men.” The use of the pagan term “gods” recurs