14. Righteousness and justice are the foundation of Your throne;mercy and truth shall go before Your presence.
15. Blessed are the people who know the joyful shout.They walk, O Lord, in the light of Your presence.
16. In Your name they rejoice all the day,and in Your righteousness they shall be exalted.
17. For You are the beauty of their strength;by Your favor our horn is exalted.
18. For the Lord is our shield of defense,and the Holy One of Israel is our king.
19. Long ago You spoke in a visionto Your godly one and said:“I have given help to one who is mighty;I have exalted one chosen from the people.
20. I have found David, My servant;with My holy oil I have anointed him:
21. By whom My hand shall be established;My arm also shall strengthen him.
22. The enemy shall not take tribute from him,nor the wicked humiliate him.
23. I will beat down his foes before himand strike down those who hate him.
24. My faithfulness and My mercy shall be with him,and in My name his horn shall be exalted.
25. I will set his hand on the seaand his right hand on the rivers.
26. He shall cry unto Me, ‘You are my Father, my God,and the Rock of my salvation.’
27. Also I will make him my firstborn,the highest of the kings of the earth.
28. In My mercy I will keep him forever,and My covenant shall stand firm with him.
29. His offspring also I will establish foreverand his throne as the days of heaven.
30. “If his children forsake My lawand do not walk in My judgments,
31. if they break My statutesand do not keep My commandments,