¹ <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of the sons of Korah. Maschil. A Song of loves.> My heart is flowing over with good things; my words are of that which I have made for a king; my tongue is the pen of a ready writer.

² The spirit of the Lord had voice through me, his word was on my tongue.

¹² While the king is seated at his table, my spices send out their perfume.

³ From my mouth will come words of wisdom; and in the thoughts of my heart will be knowledge.

³ My heart is overflowing with knowledge, my lips say what is true.

⁶ This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a scribe, expert in the law of Moses which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given: and the king, moved by the Lord his God, gave him whatever he made request for.

³⁵ The good man out of his good store gives good things; and the evil man out of his evil store gives evil things.

³⁴ Then will the King say to those on his right, Come, you who have the blessing of my Father, into the kingdom made ready for you before the world was:

³⁷ And they put up over his head the statement of his crime in writing, THIS IS JESUS THE KING OF THE JEWS.

³² This is a great secret: but my words are about Christ and the church.

²¹ For these words did not ever come through the impulse of men: but the prophets had them from God, being moved by the Holy Spirit.

¹ See, a king will be ruling in righteousness, and chiefs will give right decisions.

² And a man will be as a safe place from the wind, and a cover from the storm; as rivers of water in a dry place, as the shade of a great rock in a waste land.

¹ Let me make a song about my loved one, a song of love for his vine-garden. My loved one had a vine-garden on a fertile hill:

¹⁸ For I am full of words, I am unable to keep in my breath any longer:

¹⁹ My stomach is like wine which is unable to get out; like skins full of new wine, it is almost burst.

²⁰ Let me say what is in my mind, so that I may get comfort; let me give answer with open mouth.

⁴ Let us make the decision for ourselves as to what is right; let us have the knowledge among ourselves of what is good.

⁶ But I have put my king on my holy hill of Zion.

⁷ Let your heads be lifted up, O doors; be lifted up, O you eternal doors: that the King of glory may come in.

⁸ Who is the King of glory? The Lord of strength and power, the Lord strong in war.

⁹ Let your heads be lifted up, O doors; let them be lifted up, O you eternal doors: that the King of glory may come in.

¹⁰ Who is the King of glory? The Lord of armies, he is the King of glory. (Selah.)

¹ <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim. Of David.> Be my saviour, O God; because the waters have come in, even to my neck.

⁶ Give ear, for my words are true, and my lips are open to give out what is upright.

⁷ For good faith goes out of my mouth, and false lips are disgusting to me.

⁸ All the words of my mouth are righteousness; there is nothing false or twisted in them.

⁹ They are all true to him whose mind is awake, and straightforward to those who get knowledge.

²³ The heart of the wise man is the teacher of his mouth, and gives increased learning to his lips.

¹ The song of Songs, which is Solomon's.

² Let him give me the kisses of his mouth: for his love is better than wine.

³ Sweet is the smell of your perfumes; your name is as perfume running out; so the young girls give you their love.

⁴ Take me to you, and we will go after you: the king has taken me into his house. We will be glad and full of joy in you, we will give more thought to your love than to wine: rightly are they your lovers.

⁵ I am dark, but fair of form, O daughters of Jerusalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon.

⁶ Let not your eyes be turned on me, because I am dark, because I was looked on by the sun; my mother's children were angry with me; they made me the keeper of the vine-gardens; but my vine-garden I have not kept.

⁷ Say, O love of my soul, where you give food to your flock, and where you make them take their rest in the heat of the day; why have I to be as one wandering by the flocks of your friends?

¹ <A Psalm. Of David.> The Lord said to my lord, Be seated at my right hand, till I put all those who are against you under your feet.

² The Lord will send out the rod of your strength from Zion; be king over your haters.

¹ <To the chief music-maker; put to Shoshannim-eduth. Of Asaph. A Psalm.> Give ear, O Keeper of Israel, guiding Joseph like a flock; you who have your seat on the winged ones, let your glory be seen.