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A Psalm by David.

110 Yahweh says to my Lord, “Sit at my right hand,
    until I make your enemies your footstool for your feet.”
Yahweh will send out the rod of your strength out of Zion.
    Rule among your enemies.
Your people offer themselves willingly in the day of your power, in holy array.
    Out of the womb of the morning, you have the dew of your youth.
Yahweh has sworn, and will not change his mind:
    “You are a priest forever in the order of Melchizedek.”
The Lord is at your right hand.
    He will crush kings in the day of his wrath.
He will judge among the nations.
    He will heap up dead bodies.
    He will crush the ruler of the whole earth.
He will drink of the brook on the way;
    therefore he will lift up his head.

A Davidic psalm

A Priestly Ruler

110 A declaration from the Lord[a] to my Lord:
    “Sit at my right hand
        until I make your enemies your footstool.”

When the Lord extends your mighty scepter from Zion,
    rule in the midst of your enemies.
Your soldiers[b] are willing volunteers on your day of battle;
    in majestic holiness, from the womb,
        from the dawn, the dew of your youth belongs to you.
The Lord took an oath and will never recant:
    “You are a priest forever,
        after the manner of Melchizedek.”

The Lord is at your right hand;
    he will utterly destroy kings in the time of his wrath.

He will execute judgment against the nations,
    filling graves[c] with corpses.
        He will utterly destroy leaders far and wide.
He will drink from a stream on the way,
    then hold his head high.

Footnotes

  1. Psalm 110:1 So MT; LXX reads The Lord said
  2. Psalm 110:3 Lit. people
  3. Psalm 110:6 The Heb. lacks graves