Mitchell Dahood on the vocalisation of ADNY in Psalm 110:5

His legitimate king, my lord,
according to your right hand

The above is the translation of Psa 110:5 as offered by Mitchell Dahood. Dahood does not believe that the MT vocalisation of “lord” is correct. The MT has Adonai (my [sovereign] Lord); instead, Dahood believed that it should be vocalised as adoni (my lord). Commenting on Psa 110:5, Dahood wrote:

my lord. Revocalizing MT ‘^adōnāy as ‘^adōnî, the term designating the human king in vs. 1. Structurally, ‘^adōnî corresponds to ‘attāh, “you,” so that the following parallel elements stand forth in a chiastic pattern: You // my lord; priest of the Eternal // His legitimate king; according to his pact // according to your right hand.

5. according to your right hand. As pointed out by D. N. Freedman, ‘al y^emīn^ekā, commonly rendered “at your right hand,” describes the gesture by which the king ratified the divine pact; cf. Isa lxii 8, nišba’ yhwh bīmīnō, “Yahweh swore by his right hand,” and Ps cxliv 11. (Mitchell Dahood, Psalms 101-150: Introduction, Translation, and Notes with an Appendix The Grammar of the Psalter [AB 17A; Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1970], 118)