1 O Lord, Thou art our King, now and for ever: for in Thee, O GOD, our soul shall glory.

2 And what is the life of man upon the earth? for according to his time, so also is his hope.

3 But we hope on GOD our Saviour: for the stronghold of our GOD is for ever according to mercy:

4 and the Kingdom of our GOD is over the Gentiles for ever with judgment.

5 Thou, O Lord, didst choose David for king over Israel: and Thou didst swear to him concerning his seed, that their kingdom should not be removed from before Thee.

6 But for our sins sinners rose up against us: and they set upon us, and removed me far away: they to whom Thou gavest no command have taken by violence,

7 and have not glorified Thy honourable name with praises: and they have set up a kingdom instead of that which was their pride.

8 They laid waste the throne of David in exultation of their change. But Thou wilt overthrow them, and wilt remove their seed from the earth:

9 even when there shall rise up against them a man that was a stranger to our race.

10 According to their sins, Thou wilt reward them, O GOD: and it shall befall them according to their works.

11 And Thou wilt not have mercy upon them, O GOD. Command their seed, and do not leave a single one of them.

12 The Lord is faithful in all His judgments which He has done upon the earth.

13 The wicked man has devastated our land, so that there is none to dwell therein. They have destroyed both young and old and their children together.

14 In the splendour of his wrath he sent them away to the West, and the princes of the land to mockery without sparing.

15 In his foreign way the enemy exults, and his heart is alien from our GOD.

16 And Jerusalem did all things according as the Gentiles did in their cities to their gods [idols].

17 And the children of the covenant took hold of them in the midst of the mingled Gentiles: and there was none amongst them that did mercy and truth in Jerusalem.

18 They that love the assemblies of the saints fled away from them: and they flew like sparrows who fly from their nests:

19 and they were wandering in the wilderness, in order to save their soul from evil: and precious in their eyes was the sojourning with them of any soul that was saved from them.

20 Over all the earth they were scattered by the wicked. Therefore were the heavens restrained that they should not send down rain upon the earth,

21 and the everlasting fountains were restrained, both the abysses, and from the lofty mountains: because there was none among them who did righteousness and judgment; from their ruler to the lowest of them they were sinning in everything.

22 The king was in transgression, and the judge in wrath, and the people in sin.

23 Behold, O Lord, and raise up to them their king, the Son of David, according to the time which Thou seest, O GOD: and let him reign over Israel Thy servant,

24 and strengthen him with power that he may humble the sinful rulers:

25 and may purify Jerusalem from the Gentiles who trample her down to destruction,

26 so as to destroy the wicked from my inheritance: and to break their pride like a potter's vessel: to break with a rod of iron all their firmness:

27 to destroy the sinful Gentiles with the word of his mouth: at his rebuke the Gentiles shall flee from before his face: and to confute sinners by the word of their heart:

28 that he may gather together a holy people that shall exult in righteousness: and may judge the tribes of the people whom the Lord his GOD sanctified:

29 and he shall not any more suffer sin to lodge amongst them; and no more shall dwell amongst them the man that knoweth evil.

30 For he knoweth them that they are all the [servants] of GOD, and he shall divide them according to their tribes upon the earth:

31 and the sojourner and the foreigner shall not dwell with them: for he will judge the Gentiles and the peoples in the wisdom of his righteousness:

32 and he shall possess a people from among the Gentiles: and they shall serve him [as subjects] under his yoke: and they shall praise the Lord openly over all the earth:

33 and he shall purify Jerusalem in holiness, as it was of old time:

34 that the Gentiles may come from the ends of the earth to behold his glory: bringing her sons with them as an honourable gift; those who were scattered from her,

35 and to see the glory of the Lord wherewith He hath glorified her: and he the righteous king, taught of GOD, is over them:

36 and there is no wicked person in his days amongst them, because they are all righteous, and their king is the [master] Messiah:

37 for he will not trust on horse nor on his rider; nor on the bow: nor shall he multiply to himself gold and silver for war: nor shall he rely on a multitude in the day of war:

38 for the Lord