Incline your ear, and come unto me: hear, and your soul shall live; and I will make an everlasting covenant with you, even the sure mercies of David.

A Song of degrees. LORD, remember David, and all his afflictions:

And now I ask one petition of thee, deny me not. And she said unto him, Say on.

But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him: and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

And as concerning that he raised him up from the dead, now no more to return to corruption, he said on this wise, I will give you the sure mercies of David.

The Spirit of the Lord GOD is upon me; because the LORD hath anointed me to preach good tidings unto the meek; he hath sent me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and the opening of the prison to them that are bound;

And let Zadok the priest and Nathan the prophet anoint him there king over Israel: and blow ye with the trumpet, and say, God save king Solomon.

The kings of the earth set themselves, and the rulers take counsel together, against the LORD, and against his anointed, saying,

For thy servant David's sake turn not away the face of thine anointed.