² You are fairer than the sons of men;
^(B)Grace is poured upon Your lips;
Therefore God has blessed You forever.
^3 [d]Gird Your ^(C)sword upon Your thigh, ^(D)O Mighty One,
With Your ^(E)glory and Your majesty.
^4 (F)And in Your majesty ride prosperously because of truth, humility, and righteousness;
And Your right hand shall teach You awesome things.
⁵ Your arrows are sharp in the heart of the King’s enemies;
The peoples fall under You.

^6 (G)Your throne, O God, is forever and ever;
A ^(H)scepter of righteousness is the scepter of Your kingdom.
⁷ You love righteousness and hate wickedness;
Therefore God, Your God, has ^(I)anointed You
With the oil of ^(J)gladness more than Your companions.
⁸ All Your garments are ^(K)scented with myrrh and aloes and cassia,
Out of the ivory palaces, by which they have made You glad.
^9 (L)Kings’ daughters are among Your honorable women;
^(M)At Your right hand stands the queen in gold from Ophir.

¹⁰ Listen, O daughter,
Consider and incline your ear;
^(N)Forget your own people also, and your father’s house;
¹¹ So the King will greatly desire your beauty;
^(O)Because He is your Lord, worship Him.
¹² And the daughter of Tyre will come with a gift;
^(P)The rich among the people will seek your favor.

¹³ The royal daughter is all glorious within the palace;
Her clothing is woven with gold.
^14 (Q)She shall be brought to the King in robes of many colors;
The virgins, her companions who follow her, shall be brought to You.
¹⁵ With gladness and rejoicing they shall be brought;
They shall enter the King’s palace.

¹⁶ Instead of Your fathers shall be Your sons,
^(R)Whom You shall make princes in all the earth.
^17 (S)I will make Your name to be remembered in all generations;
Therefore the people shall praise You forever and ever.

^5 (D)God has gone up with a shout,
The Lord with the sound of a trumpet.
⁶ Sing praises to God, sing praises!
Sing praises to our King, sing praises!
^7 (E)For God is the King of all the earth;
^(F)Sing praises with understanding.

^8 (G)God reigns over the nations;
God ^(H)sits on His ^(I)holy throne.
⁹ The princes of the people have gathered together,
^(J)The people of the God of Abraham.
^(K)For the shields of the earth belong to God;
He is greatly exalted.

⁴ For behold, ^(C)the kings assembled,
They passed by together.
⁵ They saw it, and so they marveled;
They were troubled, they hastened away.
⁶ Fear ^(D)took hold of them there,
And pain, as of a woman in birth pangs,
⁷ As when You break the ^(E)ships of Tarshish
With an east wind.

⁸ As we have heard,
So we have seen
In the city of the Lord of hosts,
In the city of our God:
God will ^(F)establish it forever. Selah

⁹ We have thought, O God, on ^(G)Your lovingkindness,
In the midst of Your temple.
¹⁰ According to ^(H)Your name, O God,
So is Your praise to the ends of the earth;
Your right hand is full of righteousness.
¹¹ Let Mount Zion rejoice,
Let the daughters of Judah be glad,
Because of Your judgments.

¹² Walk about Zion,
And go all around her.
Count her towers;
¹³ Mark well her bulwarks;
Consider her palaces;
That you may ^(I)tell it to the generation following.
¹⁴ For this is God,
Our God forever and ever;
^(J)He will be our guide
^[b]Even to death.

⁴ “I will make mention of ^[a]Rahab and Babylon to those who know Me;
Behold, O Philistia and Tyre, with Ethiopia:
‘This one was born there.’ ”

⁵ And of Zion it will be said,
“This one and that one were born in her;
And the Most High Himself shall establish her.”
⁶ The Lord will record,
When He ^(C)registers the peoples:
“This one was born there.” Selah

⁷ Both the singers and the players on instruments say,
“All my springs are in you.”

^3 (F)Your people shall be volunteers
In the day of Your power;
^(G)In the beauties of holiness, from the womb of the morning,
You have the dew of Your youth.
⁴ The Lord has sworn
And ^(H)will not relent,
“You are a ^(I)priest forever
According to the order of ^(J)Melchizedek.”

⁵ The Lord is ^(K)at Your right hand;
He shall ^[a]execute kings ^(L)in the day of His wrath.
⁶ He shall judge among the nations,
He shall fill the places with dead bodies,
^(M)He shall ^[b]execute the heads of many countries.
⁷ He shall drink of the brook by the wayside;
^(N)Therefore He shall lift up the head.

²⁰ The prayers of David the son of Jesse are ended.