¹⁵ Do you think you are a king
    because you compete in cedar?
Did not your father eat and drink
    and ^(A)do justice and righteousness?
    ^(B)Then it was well with him.

32 Behold, ^(A)a king will reign in righteousness,
    and princes will rule in justice.
^2 (B)Each will be like a hiding place from the wind,
    a shelter from the storm,
^(C)like streams of water in a dry place,
    like the shade of a great rock in a weary land.

⁷ Of the increase of his government and of peace
    ^(A)there will be no end,
on the throne of David and over his kingdom,
    to establish it and to uphold it
^(B)with justice and with righteousness
    from this time forth and forevermore.
^(C)The zeal of the Lord of hosts will do this.

^14 (A)Righteousness and justice are the foundation of your throne;
    ^(B)steadfast love and faithfulness go before you.

⁷¹ from ^(A)following the nursing ewes he brought him
    to ^(B)shepherd Jacob his people,
    Israel his ^(C)inheritance.
⁷² With ^(D)upright heart he shepherded them
    and ^(E)guided them with his skillful hand.