2 Samuel 23:1-7

New Catholic Bible

“The oracle of David, the son of Jesse,
    the oracle of the man whom the Most High exalted,
the anointed of the God of Jacob
    and the beloved of the Mighty One of Israel:
² “The Spirit of the Lord has spoken through me;
    his word is on my tongue.
³ The God of Israel has spoken;
    the Rock of Israel has said of me:
‘He who rules people justly,
    who rules in the fear of God
⁴ is like the morning light at sunrise
    on a cloudless morning after rainfall
    that causes the grass of the earth to sparkle.’
⁵ “My house stands firm with God,
    for he has made an everlasting covenant with me,
    well ordered in all things and secure.
Will he not bring to fruition
    my salvation and my every desire?
⁶ “But the ungodly are all like thorns
    that must be cast aside,
    for they cannot be grasped by the hand.
⁷ No one dares to touch them
    except with an iron bar or the shaft of a spear,
    and then only to consume them by fire.”