⁴³ until I make your enemies
    a footstool for your feet.”’^[a](A)

“Sit at my right hand^(B)
    until I make your enemies
    a footstool for your feet.”^(C)

⁵ The Lord is at your right hand^[a];^(A)
    he will crush kings^(B) on the day of his wrath.^(C)
6 He will judge the nations,^(D) heaping up the dead^(E)
    and crushing the rulers^(F) of the whole earth.

⁹ May the desert tribes bow before him
    and his enemies lick the dust.

⁸ Your hand will lay hold^(A) on all your enemies;
    your right hand will seize your foes.
⁹ When you appear for battle,
    you will burn them up as in a blazing furnace.
The Lord will swallow them up in his wrath,
    and his fire will consume them.^(B)
10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth,
    their posterity from mankind.^(C)
11 Though they plot evil^(D) against you
    and devise wicked schemes,^(E) they cannot succeed.
¹² You will make them turn their backs^(F)
    when you aim at them with drawn bow.

⁴ The One enthroned^(F) in heaven laughs;^(G)
    the Lord scoffs at them.
⁵ He rebukes them in his anger^(H)
    and terrifies them in his wrath,^(I) saying,
⁶ “I have installed my king^(J)
    on Zion,^(K) my holy mountain.^(L)”

He said to me, “You are my son;^(M)
    today I have become your father.^(N)
8 Ask me,
    and I will make the nations^(O) your inheritance,^(P)
    the ends of the earth^(Q) your possession.
⁹ You will break them with a rod of iron^[b];^(R)
    you will dash them to pieces^(S) like pottery.^(T)”

⁶ Appoint someone evil to oppose my enemy;
    let an accuser^(C) stand at his right hand.
⁷ When he is tried, let him be found guilty,^(D)
    and may his prayers condemn^(E) him.
⁸ May his days be few;^(F)
    may another take his place^(G) of leadership.
⁹ May his children be fatherless
    and his wife a widow.^(H)
10 May his children be wandering beggars;^(I)
    may they be driven^[a] from their ruined homes.
¹¹ May a creditor^(J) seize all he has;
    may strangers plunder^(K) the fruits of his labor.^(L)
12 May no one extend kindness to him
    or take pity^(M) on his fatherless children.
¹³ May his descendants be cut off,^(N)
    their names blotted out^(O) from the next generation.
¹⁴ May the iniquity of his fathers^(P) be remembered before the Lord;
    may the sin of his mother never be blotted out.
¹⁵ May their sins always remain before^(Q) the Lord,
    that he may blot out their name^(R) from the earth.

¹⁶ For he never thought of doing a kindness,
    but hounded to death the poor
    and the needy^(S) and the brokenhearted.^(T)
17 He loved to pronounce a curse—
    may it come back on him.^(U)
He found no pleasure in blessing—
    may it be far from him.
¹⁸ He wore cursing^(V) as his garment;
    it entered into his body like water,^(W)
    into his bones like oil.
¹⁹ May it be like a cloak wrapped^(X) about him,
    like a belt tied forever around him.
²⁰ May this be the Lord’s payment^(Y) to my accusers,
    to those who speak evil^(Z) of me.