Psalm CIX: Dixit Dominus

Image: David punishing the Ammonites, by Gustave Dore
Music: Vespro della beata vergine, by Claudio Monteverdi

Lyrics:
Dixit Dominus domino meo: Sede a dextris meis donec ponam inimicos tuos scabellum pedum tuorum.
Virgam virtutis tuae emittet Dominus ex Sion dominare in medio inimicorum tuorum.
Tecum principium in die virtutis tuae; in splendoribus sanctorum ex utero ante luciferum genui te.
Juravit Dominus et non poenitebit eum: tu es sacerdos in aeternum secundum ordinem Melchisedech.
Dominus a dextris tuis confregit in die irae suae reges.
Judicabit in nationibus, implebit ruinas: conquassabit capita in terra multorum.
De torrente in via bibet: propterea exaltabit caput.
Gloria Patri et Filio et Spiritui Sancto, sicut erat in principio et nunc et semper et in saecula saeculorum. Amen.

Translation:
The LORD said to my lord: sit by my right hand, until I make your enemies your footstool.
The LORD will send forth the rod of your might from Zion, to lord it over in the midst of your enemies.
With you is the beginning on the day of your might; in the splendor of the holy ones I bore you from the womb before the star of morning.
The LORD has sworn an oath and will not take it back: you are a priest for ever following Melchizedek's order.
The LORD has broken kings by your right hand on the day of his anger.
He will make judgment among the peoples, fill up the ruins: he will dash heads in the land of many.
From the torrent on the road will he drink; for that reason he will raise his head.
Glory to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit, as it was in the beginning and is now and always, for ever and ever. Amen.

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