This message is directed at both Moab and Israel. The expectation of a ruler who will reign in righteousness and love is based on the promise to David that his descendants would rule in Zion (2 Samuel 7:11–16). The throne of David is different from the thrones of the world, which are founded by might and power. David’s throne is established by the grace of God, and all the kings who ruled there were merely the forerunners to the rule of the coming Messiah.
4 let the outcasts of Moab sojourn among you; be a shelter to them from the destroyer. When the oppressor is no more, and destruction has ceased, and he who tramples underfoot has vanished from the land,