2 Samuel 23:1 - 23:7

Now these are the last words of David.

David the son of Jesse declares,

The man who was raised on high declares,

The anointed of the God of Jacob,

And the sweet psalmist of Israel,

“The Spirit of Yahweh spoke by me,

And His word was on my tongue.

The God of Israel said,

The Rock of Israel spoke to me,

‘He who rules over men as a righteous one,

Who rules in the fear of God,

Is as the light of the morning when the sun rises,

A morning without clouds,

From brightness of the sun after rain.’

With the tender grass springing from the earth,

Truly is not my house so with God?

For He has made an everlasting covenant with me,

Ordered in all things, and secured;

For all my salvation and all my desire,

Will He not indeed make it grow?

But the vile men, every one of them will be thrust away like thorns,

Because they cannot be taken in hand;

But the man who touches them

Must be armed with iron and the shaft of a spear,

And they will be completely burned with fire where they sit.”