To the chief Musician a psalm of David.
1 JEHOVAH, in thy strength
the King shall joyful be;
and joy in thy salvation
how vehemently shall he?
2 Thou of his heart to him
hast granted the desire:
and thou hast not withholden back,
what his lips did require. Selah.
3 For thou dost with blessings
of goodness prevent him:
thou on his head of finest gold
hast set a Diadem.
4 Of thee he asked life,
to him thou gav’st it free,
even length of days for evermore
unto eternity.
5 In thy salvation
his glory hath been great:
honour, and comely dignity
thou hast upon him set.
6 For thou him blessings set’st
to perpetuity:
Thou mak’st him with thy countenance
exceeding glad to be.
7 Because that in the Lord
the King doth trust, and he
through mercy of the highest one,
shall not removed be.
8 Thine hand shall find out all
that are thine enemies:
thy right hand also shall find out
those that do thee despise.
9 Thou set’st as fiery oven
them in times of thine ire:
the Lord will swallow them in’s wrath
and them consume with fire.
10 Thou wilt destroy the fruit,
that doth proceed of them,
out of the earth: and their seed from
among the Sons of men.
11 Because they evil have
intended against thee:
a wicked plot they have devis’d,
but shall not able be.
12 For thou wilt as a butt
them set; and thou wilt place
thine arrows ready on thy string,
full right against their face.
13 Lord, in thy fortitude
exalted be on high:
and we will sing; yea praise with psalms
thy mighty pow’r will we.