1 Now these are the last words of David.Thus says David the son of Jesse;Thus says the man raised up on high,The anointed of the God of Jacob,And the sweet psalmist of Israel:
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 must be just,Ruling in the fear of God.
4 And he shall be like the light of the morning when the sun rises,A morning without clouds,Like the tender grass springing out of the earth,By clear shining after rain.’
5 “Although my house is not so with God,Yet He has made with me an everlasting covenant,Ordered in all things and secure.For this is all my salvation and all my desire;Will He not make it increase?
6 But the sons of rebellion shall all be as thorns thrust away,Because they cannot be taken with hands.
7 But the man who touches themMust be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear,And they shall be utterly burned with fire in their place.”