May the Lord grant all your requests.^(N)

⁶ Now this I know:
The Lord gives victory to his anointed.^(O)
He answers him from his heavenly sanctuary
with the victorious power of his right hand.^(P)
7 Some trust in chariots^(Q) and some in horses,^(R)
but we trust in the name of the Lord our God.^(S)
8 They are brought to their knees and fall,^(T)
but we rise up^(U) and stand firm.^(V)
9 Lord, give victory to the king!
Answer us^(W) when we call!

² You have granted him his heart’s desire^(Z)
and have not withheld the request of his lips.^[d]
3 You came to greet him with rich blessings
and placed a crown of pure gold^(AA) on his head.^(AB)
4 He asked you for life, and you gave it to him—
length of days, for ever and ever.^(AC)
5 Through the victories^(AD) you gave, his glory is great;
you have bestowed on him splendor and majesty.^(AE)
6 Surely you have granted him unending blessings
and made him glad with the joy^(AF) of your presence.^(AG)
7 For the king trusts in the Lord;^(AH)
through the unfailing love^(AI) of the Most High^(AJ)
he will not be shaken.^(AK)

⁸ Your hand will lay hold^(AL) 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.^(AM)
10 You will destroy their descendants from the earth,
their posterity from mankind.^(AN)
11 Though they plot evil^(AO) against you
and devise wicked schemes,^(AP) they cannot succeed.
¹² You will make them turn their backs^(AQ)
when you aim at them with drawn bow.

¹³ Be exalted^(AR) in your strength, Lord;^(AS)
we will sing and praise your might.

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

² The Lord will extend your mighty scepter^(D) from Zion,^(E) saying,
“Rule^(F) in the midst of your enemies!”
³ Your troops will be willing
on your day of battle.
Arrayed in holy splendor,^(G)
your young men will come to you
like dew from the morning’s womb.^[b](H)

⁴ The Lord has sworn
and will not change his mind:^(I)
“You are a priest forever,^(J)
in the order of Melchizedek.^(K)”

⁵ The Lord is at your right hand^[c];^(L)
he will crush kings^(M) on the day of his wrath.^(N)
6 He will judge the nations,^(O) heaping up the dead^(P)
and crushing the rulers^(Q) of the whole earth.
⁷ He will drink from a brook along the way,^[d]
and so he will lift his head high.^(R)

³ The cords of death^(E) entangled me,
the anguish of the grave came over me;
I was overcome by distress and sorrow.
⁴ Then I called on the name^(F) of the Lord:
“Lord, save me!^(G)”

⁵ The Lord is gracious and righteous;^(H)
our God is full of compassion.^(I)
6 The Lord protects the unwary;
when I was brought low,^(J) he saved me.^(K)

⁷ Return to your rest,^(L) my soul,
for the Lord has been good^(M) to you.

⁸ For you, Lord, have delivered me^(N) from death,
my eyes from tears,
my feet from stumbling,
⁹ that I may walk before the Lord^(O)
in the land of the living.^(P)

¹⁰ I trusted^(Q) in the Lord when I said,
“I am greatly afflicted”;^(R)
11 in my alarm I said,
“Everyone is a liar.”^(S)

¹² What shall I return to the Lord
for all his goodness^(T) to me?

¹³ I will lift up the cup of salvation
and call on the name^(U) of the Lord.
¹⁴ I will fulfill my vows^(V) to the Lord
in the presence of all his people.

¹⁵ Precious in the sight^(W) of the Lord
is the death of his faithful servants.^(X)
16 Truly I am your servant, Lord;^(Y)
I serve you just as my mother did;^(Z)
you have freed me from my chains.^(AA)

¹⁷ I will sacrifice a thank offering^(AB) to you
and call on the name of the Lord.
¹⁸ I will fulfill my vows^(AC) to the Lord
in the presence of all his people,
¹⁹ in the courts^(AD) of the house of the Lord—
in your midst, Jerusalem.^(AE)

Praise the Lord.^[a]

Praise the Lord.^[b]

²¹ “I hate,^(I) I despise your religious festivals;^(J)
your assemblies^(K) are a stench to me.
²² Even though you bring me burnt offerings^(L) and grain offerings,
I will not accept them.^(M)
Though you bring choice fellowship offerings,
I will have no regard for them.^(N)
23 Away with the noise of your songs!
I will not listen to the music of your harps.^(O)
24 But let justice^(P) roll on like a river,
righteousness^(Q) like a never-failing stream!^(R)

²⁵ “Did you bring me sacrifices^(S) and offerings
forty years^(T) in the wilderness, people of Israel?
²⁶ You have lifted up the shrine of your king,
the pedestal of your idols,^(U)
the star of your god^[a]—
which you made for yourselves.
²⁷ Therefore I will send you into exile^(V) beyond Damascus,”
says the Lord, whose name is God Almighty.^(W)