2 "The Spirit of the Lord spoke by me, And His word was on my tongue.
3 "The God of Israel said, The Rock of Israel spoke to me, 'He who rules over men righteously, Who rules in the fear of God,
4 Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises, A morning without clouds, When the tender grass springs out of the earth, Through sunshine after rain.'
5 "Truly is not my house so with God? For He has made an everlasting covenant with me, Ordered in all things, and secured; For all my salvation and all my desire, Will He not indeed make it grow?
6 "But the worthless, every one of them will be thrust away like thorns, Because they cannot be taken in hand;
7 But the man who touches them Must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear, And they will be completely burned with fire in their place."
8 These are the names of the mighty men whom David had: Josheb-basshebeth a Tahchemonite, chief of the captains, he was called Adino the Eznite, because of eight hundred slain by him at one time;