⁴² O Lord God, let him whom you have taken for yourself never be given up by you: keep in mind your mercies to David your servant.

³ Give ear, and come to me, take note with care, so that your souls may have life: and I will make an eternal agreement with you, even the certain mercies of David.

¹ <A Song of the going up.> Lord, give thought to David, and to all his troubles;

³⁴ And about his coming back from the dead, never again to go to destruction, he has said these words, I will give you the holy and certain mercies of David.

¹ The spirit of the Lord is on me, because I am marked out by him to give good news to the poor; he has sent me to make the broken-hearted well, to say that the prisoners will be made free, and that those in chains will see the light again;

¹⁰ Because of your servant David, do not give up your king.

²⁸ I will keep my mercy for him for ever; my agreement with him will not be changed.

²⁴ But my faith and my mercy will be with him; and in my name will his horn be lifted up.

² The kings of the earth have taken their place, and the rulers are fixed in their purpose, against the Lord, and against the king of his selection, saying,

¹⁶ Now I have one request to make to you, and do not say, No, to me. And she said to him, Say on.

³⁴ And there let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet put the holy oil on him to make him king over Israel; and sounding the horn say, Long life to King Solomon!