⁸ Ask me,
    and I will make the nations^(A) your inheritance,^(B)
    the ends of the earth^(C) your possession.

²⁰ Strike them with terror,^(A) Lord;
    let the nations know they are only mortal.^(B)

¹⁶ The Lord is King for ever and ever;^(A)
    the nations^(B) will perish from his land.
¹⁷ You, Lord, hear the desire of the afflicted;^(C)
    you encourage them, and you listen to their cry,^(D)
18 defending the fatherless^(E) and the oppressed,^(F)
    so that mere earthly mortals
    will never again strike terror.

⁴³ You have delivered me from the attacks of the people;
    you have made me the head of nations.^(A)
People I did not know^(B) now serve me,

⁵ Let your sharp arrows^(A) pierce the hearts^(B) of the king’s enemies;^(C)
    let the nations fall beneath your feet.

³⁰ Rebuke the beast^(A) among the reeds,^(B)
    the herd of bulls^(C) among the calves of the nations.
Humbled, may the beast bring bars of silver.
    Scatter the nations^(D) who delight in war.^(E)

⁵⁵ He drove out nations^(A) before them
    and allotted their lands to them as an inheritance;^(B)
    he settled the tribes of Israel in their homes.