Religion
Psalm CX
From Paraphrase on the Psalms of David in Metre (1692)
The Lord to my Lord said,
Sit thou at my right hand
Till I thy foes a foot stool make,
Subject to thy command.
God will from Sion send
The rod of thy great power,
In midst of all thine enemies;
Be thou the Governour.
A willing people in
Thy reign shall come to thee
In holy joys from mourning's womb:
Thy youth like dew shall be.
The Lord himself hath sworn,
And will repent it never,
Of the order of Melchizedeck
Thou art a Priest for ever.
The great and glorious Lord,
Who is at thy right hand,
Shall in his day of wrath strike through,
Kings who do thee withstand:
The heathen he shall judge,
And graves fill with the dead;
And over many Countries he
Shall wound their proudest head.
He shall drink of the brook
That runneth in the way;
Therefore shall he lift up the head
In his triumphing day.
Cite this poem
MLA
Baxter, Richard. “Psalm CX.” Poetry Codex, poetrycodex.com/poem/baxter/109/.
Chicago
Baxter, Richard. “Psalm CX.” Poetry Codex. https://poetrycodex.com/poem/baxter/109/.
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