Psalms, 110

1. The LORD says to you, my lord: "Take your throne at my righthand, while I make your enemies your footstool."

1. [Of David Psalm] Yahweh declared to my Lord, 'Take your seat at my right hand, till I have made your enemies your footstool.'

2. The scepter of your sovereign might the LORD will extend from Zion. The LORD says: "Rule over your enemies!

2. Yahweh will stretch out the sceptre of your power; from Zion you will rule your foes all around you.

3. Yours is princely power from the day of your birth. In holy splendor before the daystar, like the dew I begot you."

3. Royal dignity has been yours from the day of your birth, sacred honour from the womb, from the dawn of your youth.

4. The LORD has sworn and will not waver: "Like Melchizedek you are a priest forever."

4. Yahweh has sworn an oath he will never retract, you are a priest for ever of the order of Melchizedek.

5. At your right hand is the Lord, who crushes kings on the day of wrath,

5. At your right hand, Lord, he shatters kings when his anger breaks out.

6. Who, robed in splendor, judges nations, crushes heads across the wide earth,

6. He judges nations, heaping up corpses, he breaks heads over the whole wide world.

7. Who drinks from the brook by the wayside and thus holds high the head.

7. He drinks from a stream as he goes, and therefore he holds his head high.