Religion

Psalm CX

by Richard Baxter 1615–1691

From Paraphrase on the Psalms of David in Metre (1692)

Religion

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.

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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