2 Samuel 23:1-7

New American Standard Bible

David the son of Jesse declares,
^(A)The man who was raised on high,
^(B)The anointed of the God of Jacob
And the sweet psalmist of Israel, declares,
² “^(C)The Spirit of the Lord spoke through me,
And His word was on my tongue.
³ The God of Israel said it;
^(D)The Rock of Israel spoke to me:
‘^(E)He who rules over mankind righteously,
^(F)Who rules in the fear of God,
^4 (G)Is like the light of the morning when the sun rises,
A morning without clouds,
When the fresh grass springs out of the earth
From sunshine after rain.’
⁵ Is my house not indeed so with God?
For ^(H)He has made an everlasting covenant with me,
Properly ordered in all things, and secured;
For will He not indeed make
All my salvation and all my delight grow?
^6 (I)But the worthless, every one of them, are like scattered thorns,
Because they cannot be taken in hand;
⁷ Instead, the man who touches them
Must be ^[a]armed with iron and the shaft of a spear,
And ^(J)they will be completely burned with fire in their ^[b]place.”