Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

² Yahweh will extend your powerful scepter from Zion.
    Rule your enemies who surround you.

³ Your people will volunteer when you call up your army.
    Your young people will come to you in holy splendor
        like dew in the early morning.^[a]

⁴ Yahweh has taken an oath and will not change his mind:
    “You are a priest forever, in the way Melchizedek was a priest.”

⁵ Adonay is at your right side.
    He will crush kings on the day of his anger.
⁶ He will pass judgment on the nations
    and fill them with dead bodies.
        Throughout the earth he will crush their heads.
⁷ He will drink from the brook along the road.
    He will hold his head high.

⁵ A devious person has thorns and traps ahead of him.
    Whoever guards himself will stay far away from them.
⁶ Train a child in the way he should go,
    and even when he is old he will not turn away from it.
⁷ A rich person rules poor people,
    and a borrower is a slave to a lender.
⁸ Whoever plants injustice will harvest trouble,
    and this weapon of his own fury will be destroyed.
⁹ Whoever is generous will be blessed
    because he has shared his food with the poor.