Your hand will find out all your enemies; your right hand will find out those who hate you.
As my hand has reached to the kingdoms of the idols, whose carved images were greater than those of Jerusalem and Samaria,
A Psalm of David. The Lord says to my Lord: “Sit at my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.” The Lord sends forth from Zion your mighty scepter. Rule in the midst of your enemies!
May desert tribes bow down before him, and his enemies lick the dust!
From his mouth comes a sharp sword with which to strike down the nations, and he will rule them with a rod of iron. He will tread the winepress of the fury of the wrath of God the Almighty.
Anyone who has set aside the law of Moses dies without mercy on the evidence of two or three witnesses. How much worse punishment, do you think, will be deserved by the one who has trampled underfoot the Son of God, and has profaned the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and has outraged the Spirit of grace?
For he must reign until he has put all his enemies under his feet.
But as for these enemies of mine, who did not want me to reign over them, bring them here and slaughter them before me.’”
But his citizens hated him and sent a delegation after him, saying, ‘We do not want this man to reign over us.’
“If they dig into Sheol, from there shall my hand take them; if they climb up to heaven, from there I will bring them down. If they hide themselves on the top of Carmel, from there I will search them out and take them; and if they hide from my sight at the bottom of the sea, there I will command the serpent, and it shall bite them.
The enemy shall not outwit him; the wicked shall not humble him. I will crush his foes before him and strike down those who hate him.
To the choirmaster. A Psalm of David, the servant of the Lord, who addressed the words of this song to the Lord on the day when the Lord delivered him from the hand of all his enemies, and from the hand of Saul. He said: I love you, O Lord, my strength.
You shall break them with a rod of iron and dash them in pieces like a potter's vessel.”
Now when the king lived in his house and the Lord had given him rest from all his surrounding enemies,
The battle pressed hard against Saul, and the archers found him, and he was badly wounded by the archers.
If men rise up to pursue you and to seek your life, the life of my lord shall be bound in the bundle of the living in the care of the Lord your God. And the lives of your enemies he shall sling out as from the hollow of a sling.
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