Regarding the peoples who would come under the king’s authority, Psalm 72 states: “Before him the inhabitants of waterless regions will bow down, and his very enemies will lick the dust itself.

(Ps 72 Vss. 9-11) What do these words indicate? The tent-dwelling nomads inhabiting the wilderness region to the east of the land of Israel would submit to this king. His enemies would submissively prostrate themselves before him, with their faces touching the dust itself.