As much as ¹  she exalted herself and lived in sensual luxury, ²  to this extent give her torment and grief because she said to herself, ³  ‘I rule as queen and am no widow; I will never experience grief!’

In the eighteenth year of the reign of Jeroboam son of Nebat, Abijah ¹  became king over Judah.

O that I knew ¹  where I might find him, ²  that I could come ³  to his place of residence! ⁴ 

The Lord sits enthroned over the engulfing waters, ¹  the Lord sits enthroned ²  as the eternal king.

May he reign ¹  forever before God! Decree that your loyal love and faithfulness should protect him. ² 

a God who is honored ¹  in the great angelic assembly, ²  and more awesome than ³  all who surround him?

it will remain stable, like the moon, ¹  his throne will endure like the skies.” ²  (Selah)

A song of ascents. ²  I look up ³  toward you, the one enthroned ⁴  in heaven.

A generous woman ¹  gains honor, and ruthless men ²  seize wealth. ³ 

For he came out of prison ¹  to become king, even though he had been born poor in what would become his ²  kingdom.

“Son of man, say to the prince ¹  of Tyre, ‘This is what the sovereign Lord says: “‘Your heart is proud ²  and you said, “I am a god; ³  I sit in the seat of gods, in the heart of the seas” – yet you are a man and not a god, though you think you are godlike. ⁴ 

I will select ¹  you; you will rule over all you desire to have and you will be king over Israel.

King Cyrus of Persia entrusted ¹  them to ²  Mithredath ³  the treasurer, who counted them out to Sheshbazzar ⁴  the leader of the Judahite exiles. ⁵ 

Adjacent to them worked Melatiah the Gibeonite and Jadon the Meronothite, who were men of Gibeon and Mizpah. These towns were under the jurisdiction ¹  of the governor of Trans-Euphrates.

All your garments are perfumed with ¹  myrrh, aloes, and cassia. From the luxurious palaces ²  comes the music of stringed instruments that makes you happy. ³ 

You will rise up and have compassion on Zion. ¹  For it is time to have mercy on her, for the appointed time has come.

A psalm of David. Here is the Lord’s proclamation ²  to my lord: ³  “Sit down at my right hand ⁴  until I make your enemies your footstool!” ⁵ 

I considered all the living who walk on earth, ¹  as well as the successor ²  who would arise ³  in his place.

“I will rise up against them,” says the Lord who commands armies. “I will blot out all remembrance of Babylon and destroy all her people, ¹  including the offspring she produces,” ²  says the Lord.

In those days and at that time I will raise up for them a righteous descendant ¹  of David. “‘He will do what is just and right in the land.