² May the Lord make your mighty scepter
    reach far from Zion!
    Rule over your enemies!
³ Your people stand ready
    on your day of battle.
    “In holy grandeur, from the dawn’s womb, fight!^[a]
        Your youthful strength is like the dew itself.”
⁴ The Lord has sworn a solemn pledge and won’t change his mind:
    “You are a priest forever in line with Melchizedek.”^[b]
5 My master, by your strong hand,
    God has crushed kings on his day of wrath.^[c]

⁶ God brings the nations to justice,
    piling the dead bodies, crushing heads throughout the earth.
⁷ God drinks from a stream along the way,
    then holds his head up high.^[d]

⁶ Yes, we heard about it in Ephrathah;
    we found it^[a] in the fields of Jaar.
⁷ Let’s enter God’s dwelling place;
    let’s worship at the place God rests his feet!
⁸ Get up, Lord, go to your residence—
    you and your powerful covenant chest!
⁹ Let your priests be dressed in righteousness;
    let your faithful shout out with joy!
¹⁰ And for the sake of your servant David,
    do not reject your anointed one.

¹¹ The Lord swore to David
    a true promise that God won’t take back:
        “I will put one of your own children on your throne.
¹² And if your children keep my covenant
        and the laws that I will teach them,
    then their children too will rule on your throne forever.”
¹³ Because the Lord chose Zion;
    he wanted it for his home.
¹⁴ “This is my residence forever.
    I will live here because I wanted it for myself.^[b]
15 I will most certainly bless its food supply;
    I will fill its needy full of food!
¹⁶ I will dress its priests in salvation,
    and its faithful will shout out loud with joy!
¹⁷ It is there that I will make David’s strength thrive.^[c]
    I will prepare a lamp for my anointed one there.
¹⁸ I will dress his enemies in shame,
    but the crown he wears will shine.”