⁴ May he ^(G)grant you your heart's desire
    and fulfill all your plans!
⁵ May we shout for joy over ^(H)your salvation,
    and in the name of our God set up our ^(I)banners!
May the Lord fulfill all your petitions!

⁶ Now I know that the Lord saves his anointed;
    he will answer him from his holy heaven
    with ^(J)the saving might of his right hand.
⁷ Some trust in ^(K)chariots and some in ^(L)horses,
    ^(M)but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.
⁸ They collapse and fall,
    but we rise and stand upright.

⁹ O Lord, save ^(N)the king!
    May he answer us when we call.

⁸ Your hand will ^(M)find out all your enemies;
    your right hand will find out those who hate you.
⁹ You will make them as ^(N)a blazing oven
    when you appear.
The Lord will swallow them up in his ^(O)wrath,
    and ^(P)fire will consume them.
¹⁰ You ^(Q)will destroy their ^(R)descendants from the earth,
    and their offspring from among the children of man.
¹¹ Though they plan evil against you,
    though they ^(S)devise mischief, they will not succeed.
¹² For you will put them ^(T)to flight;
    you will ^(U)aim at their faces with your bows.

¹³ Be exalted, O Lord, in your strength!
    We will sing and praise your power.

¹² “I, wisdom, dwell with prudence,
    and I find knowledge and ^(S)discretion.
^13 (T)The fear of the Lord is ^(U)hatred of evil.
^(V)Pride and arrogance and the way of evil
    and ^(W)perverted speech I hate.
¹⁴ I have ^(X)counsel and ^(Y)sound wisdom;
    I have insight; ^(Z)I have strength.
¹⁵ By me ^(AA)kings reign,
    and rulers decree what is just;
¹⁶ by me princes rule,
    and nobles, all who govern justly.^[a]
17 (AB)I love those who love me,
    and ^(AC)those who seek me diligently find me.
^18 (AD)Riches and honor are with me,
    ^(AE)enduring wealth and ^(AF)righteousness.
¹⁹ My fruit is ^(AG)better than ^(AH)gold, even fine gold,
    and my yield than ^(AI)choice silver.
²⁰ I walk in the way of righteousness,
    in the paths of justice,
²¹ granting an inheritance to those who love me,
    and filling their treasuries.

^22 (AJ)“The Lord ^(AK)possessed^[b] me at the beginning of his work,^[c]
    the first of his acts ^(AL)of old.
²³ Ages ago I was ^(AM)set up,
    at the first, ^(AN)before the beginning of the earth.
²⁴ When there were no ^(AO)depths I was ^(AP)brought forth,
    when there were no springs abounding with water.
²⁵ Before the mountains ^(AQ)had been shaped,
    ^(AR)before the hills, I was brought forth,
²⁶ before he had made the earth with its fields,
    or the first of the dust of the world.
²⁷ When he ^(AS)established the heavens, I was there;
    when he drew ^(AT)a circle on the face of the deep,
²⁸ when he ^(AU)made firm the skies above,
    when he established^[d] the fountains of the deep,
²⁹ when he ^(AV)assigned to the sea its ^(AW)limit,
    so that the waters might not transgress his command,
when he marked out ^(AX)the foundations of the earth,
³⁰     then ^(AY)I was beside him, like a master workman,
and I was daily his^{[e] (AZ)}delight,
    rejoicing before him always,
^31 (BA)rejoicing in his ^(BB)inhabited world
    and delighting in the children of man.

³² “And now, ^(BC)O sons, listen to me:
    ^(BD)blessed are those who keep my ways.
^33 (BE)Hear instruction and be wise,
    and do not neglect it.
^34 (BF)Blessed is the one who listens to me,
    watching daily at my gates,
    waiting beside my doors.
³⁵ For ^(BG)whoever finds me ^(BH)finds life
    and ^(BI)obtains favor from the Lord,
³⁶ but he who fails to find me ^(BJ)injures himself;
    all who ^(BK)hate me ^(BL)love death.”