OUR FATHER WHO GAVE HIS SON THE SCEPTER OF ZION

From Psalm 110;

Your mighty scepter will rule from Zion

By Your great power judge the nations

Arrayed for battle in Holy splendor

Your sons go forth at Your command and conquer   

Psalm 110

1 The Lord says to my lord

Sit at my right hand

    until I make your foes

    a footstool for your feet.

2 The Lord will extend your mighty scepter from Zion, saying,

   "Rule in the midst of your enemies!"

3 Your troops will be willing

    on your day of battle.

Arrayed in holy splendor,

    your young men will come to you

    like dew from the morning's womb. (c. A surprise out of thin air)

4 The Lord has sworn

    and will not change his mind:

"You are a priest forever,

    in the order of Melchizedek."

5 The Lord is at your right hand;

    he will crush kings on the day of his wrath.

6 He will judge the nations, heaping up the dead

    and crushing the rulers of the whole earth.

7 He will drink from a brook along the way,

    and so he will lift his head high. 

(c. Having drank from the cup of death for the sins of all men,

 He can confidently assert authority over the whole earth)